Po(sey) Sessions

Yep, so this is how it works, we are pretending the last week totally didn't happen and I am RIGHT on schedule. That okay with you? Gooooood! Now it is time for the Doubly Delayed Happy New Year! I already posted some goals for 2010, so you have some idea of what's in store for this year. But in case you missed it, there is going to be LOTS of dystopia and science fiction bouncing around. In honor of this new focus I am unveiling my new blog design! Yay! I am also planning on reviewing more now than I ever have before. I have never considered myself a book reviewer, more an explorer of books. And while I do still hope to look at books in my own unique way, I want to be more diligent about doing a bit more of a review style. Also upcoming will be my saunter into a college dystopian literature syllabus . I picked this course over some of the others that I found because I will only have to reread one book. I also desperately need to finish The Iron Heel and hopefully this will ...

The story presented in Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey is told in switching time narratives. We know there is a time span between them but we don't know how long or short. One is set in the forward time of the narrative where we see through the eyes of a young man who is a student of magic. The other time is connected to a point in past time told by a young lady whose mother died in child birth. Both narratives, in part, involve the observation of two men, Franklin and Somiss. The girl observes the men learning magic, trying to regain information of the old songs and spells. the boy observes the men teaching magic and techniques on how to utilize it. One of the driving points of interest for me was the uncertainty of the two time periods. I desperately wanted them to converge and connect and sometimes in moments, I thought they did, and I pushed through the story even more. Each time period provides little morsels of information that form the story only at the point where they join...

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr.Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries! Checked Out a cool moonlight by Angela Johnson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson Flight of the Pheonix by R.L. LaFevers When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan The 7 Professors of the Far North by John Fardell The Flight of the Silver Turtle by John Fardell Renewed Rivers of Fire by Patrick Carman The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Returned Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick The first two weeks I did really good taking it slow on library books and this week I just went out of control! I was trying t...