Mark Your Calenders
What are you doing tomorrow evening? I don’t know about you, but I’ll be spending it helping Michelle Zink celebrate the release of her book, Prophecy of the Sisters
The Book of Chaos is nothing compared to the havoc we will wreak at the Total Chaos Twitter Party on Saturday, August 1st from 8pm-11pm EST/5pm-8pm PST!!! Prizes include gift cards and other items of awesomeness to be awarded for answers to Prophecy trivia and other random things that come to mind at the time. Could be Best Tweet of the Night. Could be Biggest Blonde Moment. Who knows?! You’ll just have to show up to see!
To be eligible for prizes, make sure you’re following @MichelleZink . During the party, we’ll be using the hashtag #unlocktheprophecy . So how about it? Will you be there?
The O’Reilly Factor for Kids by Bill O’Reilly and Charles Flowers
From the back cover: There’s no one more blunt, more opinionated, or more outspoken than the average teen. Except, of course, Bill O’Reilly, veteran star journalist, anchor of the most watched cable news program on TV, New York Times bestselling author, husband, father of two and former teacher.
In this book, O’Reilly talks straight to the readers most likely to appreciate his direct style — teens. To be sure he’s addressing their most pressing concerns, he responds to actual letters from kids who tune in to his radio and TV shows regularly and collaborates with an award-winning former high school teacher and college professor Charles Flowers.
This title is weird. Although the book is aimed at teens, the title says “for kids.” That threw me off when I initialy saw the book. However, once I read the summary on the back of the book I was interested in what I would think of what Mr. O’Reilly had to say.
Overall, not bad. In fact, I didn’t even talk to the book, as I sometimes do when I disagree with something he says on TV. I can’t really say that I completely disagree with anything he had to say in this book. He even managed to surprise me with his view on teen sex.
The O’Reilly Factor for Kids
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
*If you haven’t read Pride and Prejudice there are spoilers in this review.*
When Darcy comes to stay with the Bingleys at their newly rented home, he expects to detest the people and manners from the country. What he doesn’t expect is to be captivated by a charming lady who wants nothing to do with him, Elizabeth Bennet.
This was such an entertaining book. It wasn’t supposed to neccasarily be funny, but I found myself laughing again and again. I knew I was going to love this book within the first couple chapters. The book soon takes us to the ball where Darcy initially sees Elizabeth. Instead of admitting that he may be attracted to her, he is sure she is employing some unknown charm to catch his attention.
At times, I felt sorry for Darcy, at others, I thought he totally deserved what was coming. It never even occured to him that she might not accept his proposal. It was intriguing to see how he took Elizabeth’s words to heart after the proposal. I think that may be part of the attraction of Darcy. Because of Elizabeth’s words, he changed.
This book follows Pride and Prejudice very well. The only thing that I would have liked to have seen a bit more of in this book is Darcy’s time after the proposal. Did he wander the streets aimlessly, Elizabeth’s words pounding into his head? It was covered, but I would have liked to have seen just a bit more detail.
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
My rating: 4/5 stars