Appeal Factors-Annotation #1

The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door by Karen Finneyfrock

Celia Door is neither good nor bad. Celia Door is both good and bad. Celia Door is dark, from her black hoodie pulled up over her head to the black combat boots protecting her feet. Some would say she is moody and brooding. Others would call her quiet and introspective. Both would be right. Celia is a poetry-writing, parent-avoiding, secret-keeping teenager, and she is seeking revenge on the mean girls who made her this way.

Cool, athletic, hot. These all describe Drake, the new kid from New York City, who has been plopped in Hershey, Pa with his grandmother. He can have his pick of crowds, friends, or girls. Why would he ever pick Celia? Well-drawn, realistic characters in this debut novel.

1 Easy and 1 Hard

I decided to give myself a break when choosing my resources to follow for the remainder of this training. I will follow Early Word for my book source, which I already as often as I can. This is my "easy" pick. To challenge myself a bit, I wanted to choose between the two urban fiction resources. The first one, Street Fiction, is much better organized and easier to understand initially; however, the books seem a bit more dated. Urban Reviews is a much "messier" resource, full of links to purchase and sexy graphics. While offputting at first, it does seem to fit this genre well, and it offers up-to-date reviews. I am choosing Urban Reviews as my resource to follow...though I may regret it later!!

P.S.--while searching for this graphic, I found a few others that just beg to be shared:

Happy Co-workers

Vulcan Salute

(After a bad day-metaphoric of course!)

Fighting with Blogger

After nearly 25 minutes of trying to access my blog on Blogger, I can finally post! I am proud to say that I identified 23 out of 24 book covers and 19 out of 20. Go me!