Illustrated Review: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks 13 Apr 2011 | 08:33 am

Short Review: Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes 7 Feb 2011 | 09:13 am

When Rat and Bob’s father dies, Rat decides they should go to New York to look for their uncle. What’s sensible, sensitive Bob to do but follow his magical little sister and keep her safe? I empathise...

Short Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 7 Feb 2011 | 09:11 am

Written in the form of letters to a stranger, this tells the story of ‘Charlie’ and his freshman year in high school. When thinking about this book, I feel a dull melancholy, tinged on the edges by a ...

Short Review: White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick 7 Feb 2011 | 09:09 am

The feeling I think you’re supposed to have when reading this is ‘trepidation’, but the feeling I had was ‘meh’. Yes, what happens is freaky, and the reverend’s shenanigans were weird and gruesome, an...

Short Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi 7 Feb 2011 | 09:07 am

In the drowned and hurricane-battered Gulf State of this book, Bacigalupi has created an all-too-plausible future world. In this world, the divide between the haves and the have-nots is unfathomably w...

Short Review: Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves 7 Feb 2011 | 09:05 am

When I first started reading this, my thoughts went a little something like this: “What the hell is this? Where the hell am I? This Hanna is a freak! Woah, I like it.” In Bleeding Violet, Reeves has c...

Short Review: Just in Case by Meg Rosoff 7 Feb 2011 | 09:02 am

Since 14 November, the date of my last review, I have read approximately 3.25 books a week and written approximately 0 reviews (please feel free to pour scorn on my lame-o lazy arse). The trouble with...

Hunger Games Movie: Casting Peeta and Gale 4 Feb 2011 | 10:29 am

Since I posted about who I think should play Katniss, I have spent some time thinking about who should play Peeta and Gale in the Hunger Games movie. To be honest, I really haven’t a clue. I can’t thi...

Hunger Games Movie: Casting Katniss 4 Feb 2011 | 10:24 am

This isn’t a review, and it’s not really about a book either, but it’s something that I’ve been amusing myself with: just who should play Katniss Everdeen in a movie of The Hunger Games? Well, after a...

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore 4 Feb 2011 | 10:06 am

What have you read recently? Tons of stuff but for now I thought I’d write about I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. What’s it about? This is about 15-year-old John Smith who on the surface seems li...