I took an English course during the summer that preceded my last year of high school, to lighten my course load for the following year. Previously my summer reading had been comprised of unwieldly stacks of library books: lots of re-reads because the time for reading seemed endless, inviting both
The connection is between Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy (Harper Collins, 2010) and Rosie Alison's The Very Thought of You (Alma Books, 2009) but these quotations contain ** SPOILERS ** so if you haven't already read these novels and plan to do so, you might want to skip these bits.
Rosie Alison's The Very Thought of You Alma Books, 2009 Here's something simple to begin with (because I'm having an inordinately hard time writing about Rosie Alison's debut novel): I am grateful. And that is because Victoria, of Eve's Alexandria, sent me her copy of The Very Thought of You
I've updated my May reads to the 2010 Books Read List and am now looking forward to June's reads. I'm especially keen on starting into some classic reads when school gets out. Yup, at the end of June, classes for little ones finish and I get thinking about summer reading
Alison Goodman's Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Penguin, 2009 "Women have no place in the world of the dragon magic. It is said they bring corruption to the art and do not have the physical strength or depth of character needed to commune with an energy dragon. It is also thought that
