Posts

Showing posts with the label spy

Review: A Spy in the House

Image
About time I posted something, I think. I have been HUGELY busy (yes that is a thing) because it's coming down to the wire in my sociology class, in other words-- finals. Yikes! My final paper is sitting to my right. I'm scared of reading through it one last time because *pauses to collect myself* editing. If I find one comma wrong, I cannot stop myself from re-printing the entire paper. EDIT: I did find a mistake and I did reprint a whole page. School makes me grumpy. Today, my peeps, I give you a review. I also want to talk really quickly about the books I review on Life of a Random . First of all, I've never really stated specifically what I review but I focus almost completely on YA fiction, narrowing it further down to dystopian, sci-fi, and fantasy usually. However, I read in all types of genera so you can expect a historical YA fiction once in a while or a biography, or etc. etc. Also, I'm a reviewer for Bethany House now so you can probably expect one Ch...

Reach for the Sky {Girl Power Pt. 1}

Image
An update on my WoW commenting spree-- I didn't make it. I hit 128 out of 274 and couldn't do anymore. 1) It took too long and 2) I was busy with loads of other stuff too. Sorry, guys! Maybe next time.  On the other hand, I just found out that March is Women's History Month. So I'm going to celebrate it by talking about women, both from history and myths, that have done amazing things. Aaand , I'm going to try to find at least one novel and/or movie for each woman, or if I can't find that specific person I will just put books that have similar characters and settings. I also want to do women from different countries (that probably correspond with a continent each), but it would be way too long if I did it all in one post. So you can look forward to more Girl Power posts starring different countries in the future. This is also a way to discover new book genera. I know most of us are dystopian lovers but it's neat to branch out into new areas (that's ...