This was a book club book for my teacher book club. I was initially kind of excited to read it because the title is intriguing and it's science fiction. Death of the Author follows the story of wheelchair-bound Zelu. At the start of the book, Zelu is an unsuccessful author and university professor. She loses her creative writing teaching position due to her arrogance and insensitive comments toward some of her students. In her frustration and desperation, she sits down and pounds out a novel like nothing she's ever tried to write before: Rusted Robots, a sci-fi novel about robots after humanity. The book is wildly successful and propels her into fame. I really don't know where to start with this book. For one, I found the main character, Zelu, to be utterly intolerable. Nothing was ever her fault, and everything was always someone else's fault. Everyone was always judging her, and she was overly concerned about what everyone might have been thinking of her. I felt tha...
I rolled this one as the young readers category. I'm doing away with that category and won't be rerolling for it now that I'm finished. I didn't read the previous books, so I can't attest to the whole series. I looked for the other books but they are out of print now and really hard to find. The Fledgling follows the story of a young girl, Georgie who thinks she can fly. She can't replicate it though, and finds it really frustrating. She then meets a great big Canada goose, who she calls the Goose King. She flies on the back of the Goose King and learns to fly. This book was a little annoying. I didn't like the whole transcendentalist part of it, especially in an upper elementary book. I felt like it made it overly complex for the interested age range. I also didn't particularly care for the whole storyline at all. It was boring, not much happens. The characters were all shallow too. I rated this book ⭐⭐