Category: Books

Book of the Week: Unremembered by Jessica Brody

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One of the authors I was privileged to meet at WonderCon was Jessica Brody,  author of several young adult novels, the most recent of which is Unremembered.

I had already started the book when I met her but hadn’t gotten more than halfway through it. After meeting her, I was determined to go home and finish it, because she was a sweet author with wonderful insights and great writing advice.

I stayed up late Tuesday night, finishing the book and here it is for you all, my review of the first installment in the Unremembered Trilogy:

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Meeting Cassandra Clare-Mission Viejo Library :)

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You know, I don’t think that I have EVER put an emoticon in my blog post titles before. I guess that just goes to show you how absolutely excited I am to share all of this with you.

So as most of you already know, I am obsessed with Cassandra Clare. I would say that…I’m only obsessed with Harry Potter (maybe Doctor Who and Star Wars) more than my Cassandra Clare. I write many blog posts about her, and things from her fandom always appear on my top ten lists. Jace Lightwood is my favorite crush, though Will Herondale also makes the list. Isabelle’s whip and Shadowhunters’ stele and seraph blades make the list of choice weapons. Clary and Isabelle are my top badass ladies. Jace and Alec and Will and Jem are two of my favorite bromances. I could go on and on.

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Giving Books Love

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My sister and I are both book lovers. I have been a book lover my entire life, from the time I saw a small child. I think that I have mentioned before that my parents were kind of crazy and taught me to read at a pretty young age. So I was always a good reader. I always loved books.

And while the books that I loved when I was younger weren’t the most ground breaking of books (Sweet Valley High, Babysitter’s Club),I still have always have a deep love for books.

My sister fell into the book love a little later in life. She has very very very mild dyslexia, probably not even enough to be diagnosed but enough that reading was always really difficult for her, and obviously not something she wanted to jump into.

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The Tuesday Top Ten-Favorite Children’s Books

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Now, I don’t know about you guys but my love for reading began as a child. My parents taught me to read at a very young age. I don’t know whether this was brilliance on my part or persistance on their part, but I was reading, and fairly well, pretty young. And this was not something that was forced on me, in a completely unenjoyable manner. I LOVED to read. I soaked up books like a sponge.

 I remember getting in trouble in first grade because I had more than five books written on my weekly reading list, and that’s because I had genuinely read them all. I was always a victim of skepticism from my teachers until they realized, “Oh, she really does read that much!”

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