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A Thousand Pieces of You

A Thousand Pieces of You

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray Reviewed by Sarah Reynolds Rating – 5 stars Genre – Sci-fi Note: LOOK AT THE COVER LOOK AT IT DUDE. THIS BOOK. (Hold on, I have to compose myself before I explode from the sheer awesomeness of this book) So, YA genres that I like are both extremely diverse and also extremely specific. For example, a few of my favorite genres include: 1) Turn-of-the-century…

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MILA 2.0

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” Hello, Can you guess what book the quote’s from? I’ve joined in the fun. Sarah has some pretty great ideas. This past couple of weeks has been eventful. With a grueling IQ test I was paid to help test, Scioly prep, and wrapping up spring semester classes. By eventful, I mean…

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The Martian

The Martian by Andy Weir Review by Isabella Genres: sci-fi, future, survival, humor. 5 stars AHHH SCIENCE F* YEAH. Where do I begin professing my love for this book, Andy Weir, and Mark Watney? The book opens with “I’m pretty much fucked.”  Right after astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on mars, a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate without him.…

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Reunited

HELLOOO EVERYBODY, GUESS WHO’S BACK? *ahem* So after our spring/summer hiatus, Isabella and I are now restarting the blog, just in time for the first day of school! We’ll continue with our old pattern of alternating reviews every week, and also post some more book related posts every now and then. This week, I’m kicking it off with a review of the book Reunited by Hillary Weisman Graham, and…

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LA Times Festival of Books (THE BOOKWORMS MEET AGAIN!!!!)

LA Times Festival of Books (THE BOOKWORMS MEET AGAIN!!!!)

Hey guys, guess what? We actually know each other in real life! (You didn’t believe us, right?)

PROOF:

Isabella in regular text, Sarah in bold.

Sarah and I have maintained a stable long distance relationship since I moved away from San Diego to Austin four years ago. (FOUR YEARS AGO.) But this past weekend, us bookworms were reunited for the L.A. Times Festival of Books.

What is the L.A. Times…

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Gone Girl

Hello Bookworms,

I’ve been in a mystery binge. I just read this monster, I’m hunting down The Silkworm, and I just finished all of How to Get Away With Murder. It’s a good TV series, do recommend.  Any more suggestions for a mystery that I have to read?

A brief update, this week I’ve come to two of life’s milestones: finally learning to drive (obtaining my learner’s permit), and having now…

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Quote of the Month 2/15

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

-Martin Luther

You can never know for sure what the future will be until it becomes the present, (weather forecasts, am I right?) but you can shape the future by acting in the present. Besides acting counter-intuitively, the best way to ensure an undesirable future is to be passive and wait for it to…

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Isla and the Happily Every After

Isla and the Happily Every After

Hello everybody!

So it’s the end of February (!!!) and you know what that means! Yup, it’s time for the Quote of the Month and Editor’s Pick. Isabella just posted her Editor’s Pick, and will be posting the quote soon. In the meantime, I’ll distract y’all with a book review.

This week I’m reviewing Isla and the Happily Ever After, the last book in the Anna and the French Kissseries. It came out…

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Editor's Pick: What Should I Read Next?

Editor’s Pick: What Should I Read Next?

Imagine this scenario: you’ve just turned the last page of the best book ever, or maybe a book with just the mood or story combination you’re craving, and you weren’t done reading. You start desperately searching through genres on GoodReads for a book to satisfy the hole the last one opened up in you.

Sounds familiar? We’ve all been there.  Through my searching I have put together a list of…

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The Young Elites

Hi everyone!

SO it has recently come to our attention that today is the two-year anniversary of our blog! Yes, you heard that right: Bookworm Reviews is officially 2 years old! YAAAAAY!!! *throws confetti*

Last year, we did a week-long challenges thing (if you weren’t with us last year, you can read about that here)Though we really wanted to do that again, due to the fact that we’re both swamped…

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Paper Towns

  Paper Towns by John Green

Review by Isabella

Star rating: 2.5

Genres: YA, contemporary, humor, mystery, coming of age.

[GoodReads synopsis]

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows.…

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Quote of the Month

The scariest moment is always just before you start

- Stephen King, On Writing

While I am an avid reader, I am also an avid writer. I love to write and I love reading books about writing. I also could not agree with this quote more. I take part in a writing group with some of my friends, and every time we do a timed writing exercise, where we just sit and write for twenty minutes, I find…

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Fablehaven

Hi everyone!

I’m going to be completely honest with you guys:  I haven’t been reading a lot lately.

*gasp*

Wait, let me go back. I haven’t been reading a lot of YA lately. Non-fiction, yes. But I’ve read hardly any YA fiction lately, which I’m really sad about because there’s a really lovely pile of books sitting next to my bed that’s calling my name plaintively. The reason for this tragic turn…

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Geektastic

Hi everyone!

First off, I’d like to express my sincerest regrets for not posting this earlier. I have no idea what happened: one second I was going to bed Saturday night, mentally planning out my review for the next day, then I blinked and BAM! It’s Tuesday. *raises hand* May I request a do-over, please?

Well, anyway. This week I’m reviewing Geektastic, an anthology of short stories edited by…

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The Archived

Hello everybody,

and happy 2015! Wow, I feel like I’ve been absent for awhile, what with finals and and Holidays, and yes, it’s Wednesday and I’m a few days late posting this. (Whoops).

Do you guys have any new year’s resolutions? A 2015 book list? I personally don’t do new year resolutions, but I like to keep vague and continual goals. For instance, I would like to push myself a little further…

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The Three Musketeers

Hi Everyone!

How are you all spending the last few days of 2014? I’m busy searching out all the “Best Books of 2014″ lists and putting together my to-read list for 2015. Exciting stuff!

Today, I’m reviewing The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. This was on my list of books to read for this school year, and I enjoyed it way more then I thought I was going to. After I finished this book, I went…

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The Project for Awesome, But Mostly the Awesome.

The Project for Awesome, But Mostly the Awesome.

Hey guys,

For those who who don’t know what Project for Awesome is, I’ll start with a brief explanation. Project for Awesome is an annual charity event, in which people make videos to raise awareness and donations for their charity of choice. Based on the number of votes the video achieves, the Project will donate to the charity.

As you can guess that I’m going with this, I whipped up a video…