This looks so cool! Right now, I am rereading:

Book Title: Down with the Crims (Book two in The Crims series) 

Author: Kate Davies  

Qoute: This book has so many quoteable sayings! This is from book one in the series: ""Keep your enemies close, your family closer, and your friends in a dungeon."" 

Genre: Uh, somewhat realistic fiction? There is a lot of good humor too though, and it is really hard to get through a chapter without laughing out loud.  

Motto of the book: I know this isn't a category, but I thought it might be useful to help identify what the book is about: "Crime runs in the family" (book one) and "The family that steals together stays together" (book two)  

Happy (almost) Summer Reading Everyone!!! 

A suggested age range for the book can be helpful too!

I'm reading A Mango-Shaped space by Wendy Mass! I won't go into detail here because there is currently a thread for it on BaB, but it's realistic fiction, and for age I would say 10+

I just finished reading the Shadow and Bone trilogy! It was really good :) Probably best if you're 13 or older, though, as there's a fair amount of violence. I'm so excited to watch the TV series adaptation that just came out! It's kind of fantasy, but with a fair amount of science thrown in, too. Try it!

I also just finished another book called Salt to the Sea, which is a WW2 story about a group of refugees that make it onto a boat to escape out of Europe. It was really, really, sad but kind of like in a happy way? It's hard to explain, but it's really good. Again, if you're 12-ish or younger you might want to check out the content before reading, it's violent at times. 

I'm reading Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery. My sister gave me the whole "Anne" set for my birthday. I'm also reading The Runaway Dolls (Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin) and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan) (I'm reading this in a book club I started with my friends). 

I'm currently reading Winter, which is part of the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer. I'd say 12 or 13 is the minimum age to read this series, mostly because of Hunger Games-level violence. It's sci-fi based off of different fairy tales, which is really interesting, and has a great plot. One of my favorite books/series(es?) right now!

You can log the books while you are reading them or after youu've read them.  Either one is totally fine.  I personally will be logging books after I have read them.  The age range (basicaly the ages you would recommend the book to) is absolutely optional (as well as the other things), it can give away the age group you are in and if you are not comfortable about that don't worry, it's not required.

I just finished reading the Ranger's Apprentice, The Ruin of Gorlan, by John Flannagan (Chatterboxers were the ones who made me interested in checking it out, actually!).  I thought overall it was a fine book.  I like the story idea, but I've read better writing.  The below might be controversial, and I am willing to debate politely about them.

I think the part where Alyss kissed Will was totally unnecessary.  It didn't move the story along, it seemed out of place, and if it had been taken out I wouldn't have even missed it.  I think it was mentioned that Will was fifteen but to me he seemed more around twelve or thirteen, much too young to be kissed by anybody.  I was rather disappointed in the author about this, it was added because it's the "thing" and to make it popular.

I am disgusted with the part where Halt, Horace, and Will beat up Horace's three bullies.  Yes, I know they were really mean and what they did to Horace was terrible.  But two wrongs don't make a right.  Halt, Horace, and even Will stooped low to the bullies level, making them no different than Horace's tormentors.  When you go as low as your enemys there ceases to be a difference between you and them, you are just as bad as they are.  Perhaps worse.  I was appalled and repulsed by their actions, and I was very disappointed in them.  Halt did well in stopping them from hurting Will -- defending is good -- but he went too far and led the apprentices with him.  Making it seem okay with what he was doing.  He should have only turned them in to Sir Rodney.

If the author had taken out the first part I addressed, and changed the second I would have liked the book much more. 

Love this!!

I just finished a book called My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee, which is about a girl named Zinnia who's brother gets a mental illness. It was super good! And age range--I'd say 12 and up? Maybe 11?

Also, Barbara Dee has a book called Maybe He Just Likes You that is also SOSOSOSOSOSOSO good and should be read by everyone (who is female, anyway. It's kind of about girl stuff). Age range--you should definitely be at least 12, I think. It's about a seventh grader (I'm pretty sure).

I also read a bood called Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry, which was realllyyy good. It was also kind of like a poetry thing too. It's about a girl named Calliope, who has Tourette's Syndrome! Age range=the same as last one, 12+, I'd say, although I have no idea what's appropriate and what's not for different age groups. 

Super cool to hear about what everyone else is reading!!!

~Clementine~ 

Title: Wuthering Heights

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Genre: Classics, romance, gothic

Date Finished: May 21, 2021

Notes: *contains spoilers* Everywhere I see, it seems as though people view Heathcliff and Cathy's romance as the central theme of this book, and push off the entire second half of the story, which I don't understand. I feel like Cathy is a bit of a whiny baby, and I didn't connect with her at all. The second half of the book was far more compelling to me, as it showed the character neither as completely awful, nor flawless. I found myself loving and hating everyone in turn, in a way that I didn't during the first half. Catherine the second was sweet, passionate to a fault, and, while she made thousands of mistakes, she also did her best to patch them up and saw where she went wrong. Heathcliff's love for Cathy seemed, if anything, more apparent during the second half as he falls into delusions, and I enjoyed seeing what he would do. And, throughout the book, the passion that both Cathy and Catherine the second have for the moors is stunning, and not something that stops after Cathy dies. This book is viewed as, like, the most important romance novel ever, but I feel like there is so much more to it that compels me far more than the romance: the setting, the slight touches of horror, the ruthless way that it depicts humanity. It was definitely a great book and I can easily tell why it's a classic, but not just for Cathy and Heathcliff's romance.

I just finished a really good book called The Cruel Prince! Probably also 12+ for some romance and violence. It has a lot of elements of classic fairytales, but with a lot of darker takes on it, and it's about a human growing up in a Faerie kingdom. It's definetly worth the read (I read it in a few hours hehe) and there's still a few more books to go in the series!