Daily Archives: May 28, 2015

Fantastic jewelry projects utilizing recycled paper

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Iiiireader

Paper Jewelry: 55 Projects for Reusing Paper

By: Barbara Baumann

Rating: 5 of 5

Paper Jewelry“Paper Jewelry: 55 Projects for Reusing Paper” is the first book I have read which dealt with recycling various paper for jewelry. The author, Barbara Baumann, has included a wide variety of stylish and extremely wearable projects. The recycled paper utilizes everything from old telephone books to cigarette filters to puzzle pieces and even comic books.

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Funny young adult book – serious but makes you laugh

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Iiiireader

Finding Audrey

By: Sophie Kinsella

Rating: 5 of 5

findingaudreyI have read quite a few of Sophie Kinsella’s adult novels, so I was happy to see that she has written her first YA book. “Finding Audrey” deals with serious issues in a humorous way – this is something that I have come to expect from Ms. Kinsella’s works.

Having raised three teenagers, I could absolutely relate to each of the children in the Turner family. I might even be able to relate more closely to their Mum (as I recall a few discussions with my son about spending too much time playing computer games.) While I never thought about throwing a computer out the window (probably because our neighbors were too close), I do remember disconnecting them and hiding integral pieces more than once.

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A Magical Adventure Begins

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Iiiireader

Circus Mirandus

By: Cassie Beasley

Rating: 5 of 5

circusmirandus“Circus Mirandus” by Cassie Beasley was a fantastic and magical debut novel. I wasn’t sure what to expect when picking it up but it took me to the same place “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach” did when I was a child.

Micah Tuttle is the grandson of Ephraim Tuttle. Micah has spent all of his ten years hearing his Grandpa Ephraim’s wonderful and magical stories of Circus Mirandus and thought that that was exactly what they were: stories. Grandpa Ephraim is now very ill, indeed, and reveals to Micah that the stories were all true. Not only that, but that when Ephraim visited the Circus many years ago, the Lightbender promised him a miracle and that he has called for that miracle to be honored.

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