Amelia's Book Room: The Boyfriend List

All right, another week, another book! Let's get started!

In E. Lockhart's The Boyfriend List, we meet Ruby Oliver, and her list of boyfriends. Or rather, one boyfriend, a few not-quites, a few crushes, and some never-weres. Why is this 15-year-old making this list, you ask? Well, it's for her therapist. No, she's not crazy--at least, she hopes not. Ruby has recently undergone some major friendship and boy issues, and needs help figuring all this out and calming down her mind.

So, with the help of Dr. Z, Ruby goes through the list of boys in her life, trying to work out where it all went wrong. From Adam, her preschool playmate, to Jackson, the boy who dumped her for her best friend, we learn about what each one meant to her--all 15 of them!

This is a thoroughly enjoyable novel, which is followed by The Boy Book, which I am excited to read! I had a lot of fun reading The Boyfriend List, and I think you will too.

Have a good week!

Amelia's Book Room: Alice In Wonderland

In light of yet another movie production of Alice In Wonderland coming out soon, directed of course by the great Tim Burton, I thought we should study up on where all these movies came from!

Whether you saw the Disney movie as a kid, or one of the less well-known versions, you probably know the basics about Lewis Carroll's famous story. Little girl named Alice, talking white rabbit, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, and the temperamental Queen of Hearts. But did you know there are actually two parts to Alice's Adventures In Wonderland? Carroll (whose real name, by the way, was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson!) wrote a sequel called Through The Looking-Glass, which often gets combined with the first story in most editions of the book.

I used to find this book too eerie for me; I saw more of the nightmare side of things than the dream side. But I decided to try it again, and I'm enjoying it so far. I recommend that you read this classic before you see the movie; maybe you'll catch some references to the original that you would miss normally! If you're an information hog like me, you should also check out the official Wikipedia page. Lots of cool stuff!

Thanks to Melissa Walker for coming to our Dekoposh Book Club meeting last week, it was great! I keep forgetting to mention that we're reading E. Lockhart's The Disreputable History Of Frankie Landau-Banks for the month of January! Happy reading!

Oh my, I'm late, I'm late for a very important date!... ;)