Even better, all royalties from the sale of this book will be contributed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is an organization that I frequently donate money to.
Read the rest of my review here.
But put me in front of a game system now, and my person always gets stuck on a cliff somewhere and Shrek is yelling at me to come on and I can’t seem to move.
Read how to pick out appropriate video games for your family here.
Unfortunately, this didn’t go as well as I’d planned. In fact, I told the kids at school that my bangs had CAUGHT ON FIRE.
Read the rest of my review of “Beauty Confidential” here.
But man, Bill O’Reilly and I just are not BFFs. We aren’t.
Read the rest of my review here.
Man, I love this book. I love the design of it (it’s pink and I dig that), the spiral bound pages which lay flat, the nutritional information, the beautiful photographs, and the fact that I served up an entire head of cauliflower and no one knew.
Read my review of the book that just might change how your family eats dinner.
I had an overwhelming feeling that I had been there before. The way the place smelled, the layout of the rooms-it was all familiar to me.
Do you have a past life? Check out this new book sent to me from the folks at Mother-Talk.
I’m trying out a few new things around here.
I now have a review blog called Baggage Reviews. I’ll be posting product reviews, book reviews, etc. on that blog. Sometimes people send me things to review, and I’ll post those over there. While I don’t have to pay for these things, you can rest assured that I’m going to tell you the truth about what I think about the product or book. I’ll also be reviewing things that I’ve just come across that I think are great. The kids will be reviewing things as well.
I’ll let you know on the main blog when there is a new review. Please go check it out! And if you have a product you’d like us to review, you can contact me at baggageandbug@yahoo.com.
And now, go read my review of a great new cell phone for your preteens and teens: Go to the Kajeet review.
So you “Hey there, Delilah” fans have to go check out the song parody, “RE: Your song about my client Delilah”.
If you go to that link, you can follow a separate link to download or listen to the song for free.
In case you don’t know, there is a real Delilah, but she never had a relationship with the guy and in fact, she was totally not interested.
Callie and I couldn’t stop laughing at:
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But you’ve used planes and trains and cars
And pogo sticks and Segways and a horse..
Just a little fun for your Saturday night.
If you recall, I did a MotherTalk book review for Maximum Ride 3, and I wasn’t thrilled with the book. I passed it along to Callie, who had this review:
I thought the book was great! I really enjoyed reading it! I loved the sarcasm because I’m very sarcastic myself! I loved the adventure, mixed with suspense and comedy! Overall it was truly a AWESOME book. I was sad when I was done! Max is a great character. I think she’s some one other girls would look up to! Great job!
(Which goes to show..I thought Callie would think it was cheesy, but she got really into it.)
Maximum Ride
I would much rather re-read the Harry series. I’m not sure why I didn’t get into this book. Besides Star Trek: The Next Generation, I’ve never been much into science fiction. But besides that, it seemed like this book tried too hard. It tried so hard to be cool and hip that to me, it seemed ridiculous.
For instance, one of the main characters has a blog. A blogspot blog, even. Which is all well and good, but it is thrown in there like to say, “Hey, I get you teens! Blogs! They are hip!” While I certainly don’t have a problem with a blog being featured in a book, it seemed awkwardly done. I haven’t read the other two Maximum Ride books, so I wasn’t sure why the main character, a girl named Max, kept talking to me. In the Series of Unfortunate Event books, you understand that Lemony Snicket is writing down the events that happened to the Baudaliere children, so when he addresses you, it seems natural. But why is Max talking to me? Is this her journal? How does she know I’m reading? Maybe the fact that she knows she has readers is explained in an earlier book, but it was a little off putting to me.
That all being said, I think Bug would really enjoy this book. It has a female lead, who has bird DNA so she can fly. That alone would draw in Bug. There are quite a few parts that are funny and the story is fast paced. The chapters are really short, I’m talking two pages at times, and I think Bug would enjoy the “cool” lingo and not think it was overdone. I think older teens might enjoy the plot and the adventures that Max and her buddies go on, but they would probably roll her eyes at the rest. I think Patterson tried to relate to teens and speak in the voice of a teenage girl, but went too far into stereotypes.
I’m going to pass this book along to Bug and Callie and see what they think so stay tuned. If you have younger girls, in the 10/11 range, I think they might enjoy this book. However, there is a lot of adventure/danger/violence type stuff in here, so you might want to read it first and see if you think it would be appropriate for your pre-teen.
See what other bloggers are seeing about Maximum Ride 3 at Mother-Talk.
