Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Rebecca Stead

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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Sunday, May 31, 2020

The List of Authors Everyone Loves

Rebecca Stead is on that list! The List of Things that Will Not Change is her latest. And I did like it. But for some reason I just can't really get into Stead. I loved the love. I heart-broken about Mission. I thought the relationship between the two main character and her soon to be sister was very real. I just thought the whole cousin thing wasn't needed. I am not sure why it just seemed so out of place for me. But the big secret surrounding Bea and her cousin...it just didn't fit for me and really did a lot of take away from my experience with the book.

Monday, August 27, 2018

So Glad

I am not a huge fan of the books of Rebecca Stead. I know she is a good writer, she just is not my kind of writer. And I have enjoyed books by Wendy Mass, but they have all been on the just-a-wee-bit-too-long side for me. And so I was not even going to read Bob, but man, I am so glad that I did. I ended up loving this very sweet story. Magical, indeed. I loved it. I don't know if it is Newbery stuff, but I really did love it.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Hello Stranger

is an Emmylou Harris song. Goodbye Stranger is a book by Rebecca Stead that I really enjoyed. I am one of the very few who didn't like When You Read Me or Liar & Spy but I was really, really glad to have listened to this one. I think this one was more of a 4.5 for me.
As an FYI, Hello Stranger by Barbara Lewis is one of the
BEST
SONGS
EVER.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Newbery?

The Newbery Award will be announced at the end of January and I will be blessed once again to be there! This will be my third time, God willing. Goodreads has a list of books tagged as Mock Newbery Books and Liar and Spy is third on the list. When You Reach Me won the Newbery and wow, I just did not enjoy that book at all. I disliked it so much I didn't want to read L and S at all. But I broke down because I saw it sitting on the shelf so many times, looking so lonesome and I read it today, in one sitting and it wasn't nearly as bad as WYRM. I was really, really enjoying it, until the end. I just didn't buy into it and it just went flat for me. This is the story of Georges and his life now that his family has moved from their house to an apartment. There is bullying and friend-making and friend-losing and quirky characters. I did love Georges a lot. And his friend Safer, too. But I don't know. Just not my thing.