Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Crushes

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

This is a book

that makes me want to jump and shout! Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World was just awesome. Just awesome.
Ivy is a fantastic character, and so is June. Although I did keep thinking of Faith, Hope and Ivy June every time I heard their names!
Just so good. So good. I loved Ivy's best friend, too. This book is one of the best books I have ever read about LBGTQ issues, but it is WAY more than that because it is just one of the best books I have ever read for middle grades on any topic, with any kind of characters. Ashley Herring Blake has that way of just getting into the young mind/character, etc. like Andrew Clements, she just puts you THERE. So good highly recommended and so NOT predictable and more of the same old same old.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Emma Jean Again!

I had wanted to read Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree ever since I read the second one, and sadly, I guess the last one, since there hasn't been one since 2009. Emma Jean is a very different kind of girl, who doesn't mind being different. She knows she is and she is okay with that! She is very academically smart. She kinda reminds me a little bit of that Sheldon guy on that one show about the guys who all live together...what is the name of that? Big Bang Theory! In this book Emma Jean tries to be very helpful and her quirky ways get up making a little bit of trouble!

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Memories of a Song...

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love is the sequel to Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree and it is written by Lauren Tarshis, the mad-crazy-selling author of the I Survived series. I didn't expect AWESOME things from Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love, but that is what I got. I guess I thought...I don't know...a Scholastic series, formulaic writer, maybe? Yes, that is what I thought, even though I really did like I Survived Pompeii, 79 AD. I am sorry that I didn't have hopes for a super great book in EJLFIL, I just checked the audio out because it was available and I needed a book. I didn't know it was a sequel, either. But I am so glad that I didn't know, because I probably wouldn't have listened to it and I would have totally missed out on the great book that this was! I am going to read the first one, second because I need to find out more about this quirky Emma-Jean!
Opps, I almost forgot that this book title reminded me of the song Norma Jean Riley. It's a catchy little tune that I thought was by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, but it is Diamond Rio!