Saturday Snapshots

Saturday SnapshotsHosted by Alyce at At Home With BooksLast week I had visited the open-air food market in Jerusalem (aka, the Shuk) where I found strawberries being sold for only 3 shekel a kilo (that's about 75 cents for 2 lbs). Excitedly I bought as many strawberries as I could carry and when I got home I proceeded to do something that I have being dreaming about for years - I made my own strawberry jam. And I really have no idea why I waited...

Bumped by Megan Mccafferty

When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food. Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have...

The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt

I’ve been feeling kind of restless lately in my reading, unable to settle down with any one book for more than a chapter or two. After returning to my bookshelves once again, hoping to find the right book to get me out of my reading funk, I came across a slim volume that I had never noticed before, The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt. While the childish cover didn’t particularly impress me the blurb on the back cover did tempt me to crack...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of April 25

Wow, these past few weeks have been so incredibly busy, with all of the preparations for Passover and the celebration of the holiday, that I just haven't had much time to put into blogging. So I apologize to anyone who was disappointed by the lack of a New Releases post last week and I hope to make it up to you with all of the new and exciting titles that I have for you this week. I'm pretty excited to get a hold of The Alchemist in the Shadows,...