]> http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/ lunarhunk's Blog en-us © 13:30:45 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Wed, Feb 13:30:45 8 GMT 30 http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/ruby_red_kerstin_gier.html Imagine what it would be like growing up in a family surrounded by secrecy. Many of your closest relatives are part of an organization that supports people who have been born with a gene that allows them to travel through time. How would you feel if you were one of the few people without any of that inside information because you are normal? Or are you? Gwyneth is a 16-year-old girl growing up in London. For her whole life she has felt like she has been overshadow by the family's dark secr ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/ruby_red_kerstin_gier.html#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:50:39 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/trouble_half_moon_danette_vigilante.html Dellie's family has been wracked by the death of her brother. Her parents, who have been in counseling for months, are struggling to keep going. Her mother, has become distant and over-protective of Dellie while her father finds himself having to follow her around to make sure she is safe so his wife will not worry. Neither seems to notice that Dellie is fighting her own personal guilt. She can't help but wonder if their is something she could have done to save her brother Louis from the a ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/trouble_half_moon_danette_vigilante.html#comments Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:53:07 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/kill_patterson_marshall_karp.html Depending on your point of view, Matthew Bannon is either really lucky or really unlucky. One day while coming home from class at his art school, he comes across a violent assassination, which is assumed to be a terrorist attack) in New York City's Grand Central Station. The victim worked for the Russian Mafia as part of a diamond smuggling operation. The problem is that he was embezzling some of the diamonds for himself, and his higher ups wanted him rubbed out. Before he died, he was abl ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/kill_patterson_marshall_karp.html#comments Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:36:33 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/feynman_jim_ottaviani_leland.html Richard Feynman is one of the unsung heroes of physics. Few people, including myself before this reading, would have recognized his name, yet he worked on the Manhattan Project, won the Novel Prize in physics, was the first big-name physicist to teach freshman courses, and was part of the panel who identified the problem with the o-rings that led to the Challenger space shuttle explosion. In fact, he was the one who figured out it was the o-rings. With all of that said, why is he such an u ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/feynman_jim_ottaviani_leland.html#comments Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:45:02 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/level_gene_luen_yang_thien_pham.html This is really a great presentation of how parental expectations really can affect our life choices. Dennis Ouyang is really having a hard time living up to his deceased fathers expectations to study hard and become a doctor. Dennis had always had a talent for playing video games, but that seemed to conflict with his unspoken promise to his father. After some bumps in the road, Dennis finds some support in the form of four angels, who look a great deal like the Power Puff Girls. They had f ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/level_gene_luen_yang_thien_pham.html#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:10:13 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/states_got_shapes_stein.html This book is the sequel to the popular How the States Got Their Shapes, which went state by state in order to define how their various borders came about. I thought that was really interesting and was excited to learn that the writer had opted to do a sequel. This volume is done in much the same style with each chapter focusing on various people who had a major influence on the shapes of the states. These include the famous Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to the lesser well-known Roger Wi ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/states_got_shapes_stein.html#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:46:46 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/anyas_ghost_vera_brosgol.html It's not easy being a teenager, particularly when you are a Russian immigrant hoping to be just like the other kids at school. Anya Borzkovskaya has worked really hard to fit in: she learned to speak English without an accent, she tries to dress like the other kids, and she has even learned to eat a veggie diet. Even with all of that, she feels like an outsider. Anya has a crush on one of the cool older guys at school, and she is very jealous of his girlfriend. He is not the kind of boy he ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/anyas_ghost_vera_brosgol.html#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:36:50 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/imperium_robert_harris.html Readers are transported back in time to ancient Rome during the time of Julius Caeser with this novel presented as a piece written by Tiro, a slave owned by Marcus Cicero. Tiro, a real historical person, brings readers through his master's rise from being a simple outsider with little influence to his election as Consul. At the time, which is before the rise of the emperor, the consulship was the most desired and powerful office in the empire. Cicero, who is and was a well-known orator, wa ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/imperium_robert_harris.html#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:58:44 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/cumberland_blackstone_david.html I ended up checking out this book because I was hoping to get to know the town in which I am working better. Balfour has created a really nice overview of the history of the town, including information about some of the important residents, the details about each of the villages, and some really incredible photographs. I do have to admit that I knew surprisingly little about Cumberland, and reading through this title really did an amazing job of connecting me to its past. It was amazing to ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/cumberland_blackstone_david.html#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:37:36 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/kingdom_keepers_iii_disney_shadow.html Finn Whitman along with his friends Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck, who were hired to model Disney Host Interactive hologram guides for the parks at Disney World are back for another adventure in which they take on the Overtakers, who are led by Maleficent and Chernagog (the demon from Fantasia. The Overtakers are hoping to conquer the world, which is not surprising because they are made up of all the worst villains from the Disney films. This time the DHIs are having to deal with th ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/kingdom_keepers_iii_disney_shadow.html#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:21:48 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/big_switch_harry_turtledove.html This is the third installment in one of Turtledove's more recent series: The War That Came Early. The concept behind the series is a proposal to look at what might have happened if the Nazis, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, had started their aggressive invasions in 1936 rather than 1939. The series is expected to have five volumes. For a great deal of time, not a lot has been all that different. Germany has settled into a draw in France on the Western Front and in Poland on the East, ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/big_switch_harry_turtledove.html#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:12:54 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/red_queen_philippa_gregory.html After having given her readers a look at the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the Yorkish Queen Elizabeth Woodville in the first book in the Cousins' War series, Gregory introduces her fans to Margaret Beaufort, a Lancater claimant to the throne and a woman of great faith. Beaufort is in fact the grandmother of Henry VII. Growing up, she finds inspiration in the story of Joan of Arc, who was a young woman who saw visions from God that inspired her to help lead the rightful king back t ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/red_queen_philippa_gregory.html#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:43:35 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/shadow_walkers_brent_hartinger.html While Brent Hartinger is best known for his realistic fiction, particularly works with strong GLBTQQ characters, his newest work explores the realm of paranormal mysteries. Set on Hinder Island, a small island near Puget Sound in Washington state, readers meet Zach. Zach and his younger brother Gilbert moved to the small and quiet island community to live with their grandparents only a few years earlier, after the deaths of his parents. It has not been the smoothest of transitions for Zach ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/shadow_walkers_brent_hartinger.html#comments Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:52:00 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/see_patterson_ledwidge.html Nina Bloom would seem to have a dream life. She has a successful career as a lawyer. She has a teenaged girl getting ready to head off to college with a good chance of getting into Brown University. Everyone would want to have her life. In fact, she was just one such person wishing for a better life. When Nina was in college, her name was Jeanine, and she had gone down to Key West on Spring Break with a group of friends and her boyfriends. Things went terribly wrong, and it all started whe ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/see_patterson_ledwidge.html#comments Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:22:45 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/smokin_seventeen_janet_evanovich.html Stephanie Plum and the gang are back for another adventure. Bodies are turning up in the empty lot next to the bail bonds office her cousin Vincent Plum owns. Since this is the place where Stephanie works, she is obviously quickly drawn right into the middle of things, particularly as later bodies start showing up with a label on them that says simply: For Stephanie. As usual, Stephanie's love life also wreaks havoc for her. Joe Morelli, her long-time sorta-boyfriend, is still very interes ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/smokin_seventeen_janet_evanovich.html#comments Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:58:27 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/dark_city_catherine_fisher.html Fantasy meets dystopia in this first volume of the new Relic Master series by Catherine Fisher. She has has been getting the attention of upper-elementary and middle school aged kids with her writings for some time. And this story is not going to disappoint them. Galen Harn is one of the few Relic Masters still around. The masters are an order that has specialized in hunting down the ancient technologies that used to help society rung before some major event forced culture back to a mediev ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/dark_city_catherine_fisher.html#comments Sun, 4 Sep 2011 18:27:15 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/gets_better_edited_savage_miller.html Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller kicked off the It Gets Better movement after a series of teen suicides caught media attention a few summers ago. In each of the cases, teens committed suicide because they were bullied and taunted for being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. Some of these teens were queer and some weren't. That fact doesn't really matter because the ultimate harm was done. Savage and Miller created a short podcasted film that they posted with the hopes of getti ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/gets_better_edited_savage_miller.html#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:36:37 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/strings_attached_judy_blundell.html I quickly became a fan of Blundell after reading her first novel for teens, What I Saw and How I Lied, which won the National Book Award for Youth. She really writes great noir novels for teens, which is pretty much unique from what I can tell. I love them and can't put them aside. Readers are quickly introduced to 17-year-old Kit Corrigan. It's fall of 1950, and she has recently arrived in New York City with the hopes of making it big on Broadway. It is not like she has no background. She ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/strings_attached_judy_blundell.html#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:14:23 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/abused_werewolf_rescue_group.html Catherine Jinks is an Aussie with a flair for black humor. This is actually a sequel to The Reformed Vampire Support Group, which painted vampirism as a cumbersome wasting disease. Fortunately, Jinks brings back some of our favorite characters from that book to explore lycanthorpy with a new protagonist. Poor Toby is 13 years old, and he has had a really bad morning. He wokeup naked in the dingo pen at a local nature reserve in Sydney Australia. He has no memory of how he ended up there. F ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/abused_werewolf_rescue_group.html#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:50:22 GMT http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/death_cloud_andrew_lane.html A few years back, British author Charlie Higson explored the back history of James Bond with the Young Bond series, which seemed to grab a lot of interest for those who like the Alex Rider series by Alexander Horowitz. Well, another of Britain's greatest crime finders is getting a chance to share his childhood with us. This time, it is Sherlock Holmes. While on school break, Sherlock has been sent into the countryside to join his aunt and uncle on their estate. He finds himself quite bored ... http://my.greasy.com/lunarhunk/death_cloud_andrew_lane.html#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:25:27 GMT