These Winds and Tides

Author: Adriene

• This Too Shall Pass

  A couple of weeks ago, a friend of ours who is currently battling colon cancer put this video up on his blog. (OK Go – yes, the treadmill guys – has requested that embedding be disabled on the video, so I can’t post it directly here.) Mark decided that since this was going [...]

• Who’s got the best husband in the world?

  I’ve got the best husband in the world!

  Paramore Valentines (designed by JT Daly of Paper Route, in fact)! Jeff found them online a few weeks ago and thought they would be perfect. I can honestly say this is probably one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever gotten.
  Gents, take this as proof that, if you know [...]

• 2010 YALRC, Book 3 – Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

  For my third book of the 2010 YA Lit Reading Challenge, I chose Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. I was pretty excited about reading it, because a lot of my friends (whose taste in books is usually right in line with mine) really enjoyed it.
  To sum up, this book is about 16 year old [...]

• 2010 YALRC, Book 2 – Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater

  I read the description of this book and immediately decided that it sounded like what would’ve happened in Twilight if Jacob had won. Boy, was I wrong. And that’s not a bad thing.
  Shiver is the story of Grace and Sam, a girl and her wolf. Sam spends every summer human, but, due to being attacked [...]

• 2010 YALRC, Book 1: Fire, by Kristin Cashore

  As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve entered a YA Lit Reading Challenge for 2010. My goal is to read 25 YA Lit books over the course of the year. I’m hoping I surpass that goal, but we’ll see.
  In any case, my first selection this year was Fire, by Kristin Cashore. It’s a companion [...]