Archive for December, 2009

I think I’d like to share some of my favorite tweets that I’ve seen over the past few days with you today! I’ll try and do this every Thursday, but no promises as I am super busy these days (as always!).

So here we go!

John Green tweets about a song his brother Hank did on the stupidest news events in 2009: realjohngreen: Have you seen this brilliant song about the stupidest news stories of 2009? http://bit.ly/09endssong

Laurie Halse Anderson tweets that Wintergirls was named one of the most influential books of the decade!: halseanderson Yes, WINTERGIRLS was named one of the most influential books of the decade. HUZZAH! I am honored and gob-smacked. http://ow.ly/PWEP

Melissa Walker tweets about the prequel to The Babysitter’s Club (yes, really!): melissacwalker Ooh, Babysitter’s Club lives!! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/books/31babysitters.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimesbooks

Enjoy!

Zeeta and her mother Layla have been traveling the world ever since her birth. They spend every year in a different country: Morocco, Thailand, amongst many others, and now at the beginning of The Indigo Notebook, they are on their way to Ecuador. Layla is a free-spirited, spontaneous woman that loves to quote spiritual mysticism and wake up at dawn to dance in waterfalls. Zeeta is the more practical of the two, always looking out and making sure they have the necessities of life to keep them going. All she has ever wanted is a normal life (à la American kids) and sometimes harbors secret resentments against Layla for the life they have lived.

The Indigo Notebook follows Zeeta and Layla in Ecuador as they both experience life-changing situations and adventures. Early in the novel, Layla has a life-threatening experience, which drastically changes her views on her own life, and Zeeta’s. Zeeta’s poit of view changes when she meets Wendell, an American teenager searching for his birth parents in the local villages. Both of their paths lead to a better understanding of their selves and what they want for their lives and their futures. The Indigo Notebook is set in the village town of Otavalo, and the cast of characters are unique and inspiring as the people of Resau’s last novel, Red Glass. She has a talent for weaving a story around descriptive characters with wonderful traits, yet they have flaws, as we all do.

For anyone with a love of traveling, or a love of a great story with heartfelt meaning and beautiful prose, I recommend The Indigo Notebook. This is the first in a series, and I absolutely cannot wait for more!

For More: Visit Laura Resau’s website!

It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. My life has been a crazy whirlwind this past month. I don’t even know where to begin! Work has been crazy, crazy, crazy. And I recently accepted a position as a graduate assistant for my school. So, I’ll be leaving my current place of employment in early January and embarking on this new, exciting journey. I can’t even describe how excited I am about this. I’ll be able to attend school full time, which means I will graduate sooner than expected, and be in my chosen career field sooner as well!

Next semester I’m taking a course in young adult library services, so you can be sure that I’ll be posting quite a few reviews/discussions on here. I should be beginning some of my books to read this week, so look for updates soon!

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I am definitely looking forward to 2010!