The Tales of Beedle The Barb

OK so If you have read the last Harry Potter book then the title of this post moslt likely looks familiar. If you haven't read the last Harry Potter book The Tales of Beedle The Bard are a collection of "wizard fairy tales". Supposedly these are the fairy tales wizard children grew up listing to and J.K. Rowling went and wrote all these fairly tales down so its now a real book. There are short fairy tale stories in it like The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlocks Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbity and Her Cackaling Stump and The Tale of The Tree Brothers. Now if your not a fan of Harry Potter, that's okay! You can still read these without a knowledge of the Harry Potter world and it's characters. What I love most is that each of the fairy tales has a moral that is separate from magic and most of them are how about magic can actually ruin your life. I thought the fairy tales were cute and well written and they could def become classics. My favorite was the Fountain of Fair Fortune because three witches travelled to this fountain thinking that the fountain would grant them their heart's desires but on the journey they find what they really were searching for. So in the end, magic was not needed and, you guessed it, they all lived happily ever after.

I thought it was really cute how Dumbledore would "explain" the "origins" of the story and about the wizard or witch who it was based on. It was a charming addition (don't I sound smartical) to an already lovely tale.

Even if you aren't a fan of Harry Potter, you simply must read this book! It was really, really good and I loved it. And so will you! I hope. -crosses fingers-

p.s. J.K. Rowling did all the illustrations in the book. Plus if you buy the book a certain amount of the money goes to a children's organization called Comic Relief

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

OK and now here is my SECOND guest reviewer! All the way from...Pennsylvania, Its KATIE MACDONALD! :)

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti. From normal to millionaire... in a second. That's what happens to 17 year old Indigo Skye in this book.
She's just a normal girl who works at a comfy, small town cafe where everyone knows each other. She
has a dear family, a boyfriend who loves her, and friends at school. She's happy. But her life turns upside down when a grateful customer gives her 2.5 million dollar tip for her kindness.
Overnight, everything seems to change. Ipods, TVs, cell phones, cars; she can have almost anything she wants, right at her finger tips. But is she really happy? Will the money give her what she really wants in life?
This book isn't super deep, but it's a great pick up and read it, and it's an easy page turner. I found it on ALA's top recommended books for teens list. Aside from some language, it was an appropriate. I enjoyed it alot!
Hope you do to.

Carpe Corpus

YAY! THE NEW MORGANVILLE VAMPIRE BOOK CAME OUT EARLIER THEN I THOUGHT IT WOULD! Sorry, I'm just REALLLLLY EXCITED! Why? Cause this book is the CLIMACTIC POINT in the series! Also the Seris is now a NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER! So HA! Now you MUST read it! The NEW YORK TIMES says its worth your attention! Lol Anyways i was really excited about the book but now I'm going to go to bed. :)