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Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line

Nancy Drew, She Ain't Authors:  Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham SPOILER ALERT: This book is set after the events in the Veronica Mars movie and contains some spoilers about what Veronica’s been up to since the show ended. While I hesitate to describe myself as a “Marshmallow” in any respect other than my physique, I’ll cop to being a big fan of the Veronica Mars TV show. I own the DVD box sets; I went to see the movie when it came out; and OF COURSE I was going to read the novelization as soon as I could get my [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:18-07:00May 2nd, 2014|Tags: , , , |

Divergent (Sue)

What's in Your Faction? Author: Veronica Roth Oh, dystopian teen fiction, I love you so.  You are the perfect palate cleanser after something adult and dense, or something somber and filled with facts.  Quite simply, you make me happy.  Divergent nearly made me ecstatic. Divergent (as everyone in the whole world who is a teenager knows) is the first book in a trilogy by author Veronica Roth.  It is also now a Major Motion Picture!  In it, we meet Beatrice.  Beatrice (or Tris, as she later becomes known) lives outside of what used to be Chicago with her family parents [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:18-07:00May 1st, 2014|Tags: |

Fault In Our Stars, The

Cry Me An Ocean Author: John Green Red, puffy eyes are not a good look for me.  Seriously.  And I’m a little pissed at author John Green for forcing them on me.  I’m not a big crier when it comes to books and movies, but his The Fault In Our Stars had me weeping and hiccuping and snot nosed by approximately chapter three.  Do not read this book without an adequate supply of tissues. Don’t get me wrong – this is not a bad book.  In fact, if it weren’t so well written it wouldn’t have anywhere near enough emotional [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:19-07:00May 1st, 2014|Tags: |
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