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 ⭐⭐
This was one of the book club choices for my neighborhood book club. We called it historical fiction, but I didn't really feel like it was actually historical fiction, but I did enjoy it. The Names follows the storyline of a woman Cora and her abusive husband. Cora is in a terrible marriage. The story starts with Cora on her way to the registrars office to fill out the birth certificate for her newest child. Her oldest child, Maia, thinks the boy's name should be Bear. Cora wants to name him Julian. Her husband, Gordon, wants to name him after himself as it's a family name. The story follows all the way through what would happen depending on which name the baby is given. The concept of this book was really fascinating. I highly enjoyed the way this book was written and told, though it was a little confusing at the start. I also had a hard time with the time jumps that happen in between each chapter. Really though, I loved the characters in the book. Bear, Julian, and Gordo...