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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
        
        - Victor Hugo

2015 Young Adult Novels

The Madman's Daughter

5/27/2015

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I've gotten myself into a Gothic funk the past couple of reads.  I'm thinking this is the next big trend in Young Adult literature.  The Madman's Daughter, by Megan Shepard, follows the classic by H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau. It chronicles the daughter of Dr. Moreau after he has been exiled to his island. She is penniless and working at a medical university where she is forced to endure a harder life with filled with more nightmares than even her father's laboratory could provide. Like always, I am still at the beginning of this trilogy. I added it to this blog because I can already tell it is going to be a good one. The imagery in incredibly memorable. Like most Gothic novels it begins early with stronf imager of blood, death, and sadness.  It is our job as the reader to find this beauty in that darkness. 

Here's the link to add it on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12291438-the-madman-s-daughter
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    SOOO many choices and sooo little money!!!

    To read is to breathe!!!!.

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   It doesn't get any more real than this! Like all my social media indicates I am an English teacher at Reagan High School.  I love my students as much as I do my own four children.  I enjoy YA Lit and Cadbury eggs.  I spend most of my daylight hours in overdrive, like most mothers.  Many ask me how I manage to accomplish so much, and although I have answered in various ways, the one solid truth in my life is Jesus Christ who makes all things possible. 
   Borrego ​is the name of my current project. Check out this novel and more on my website or on Amazon.com.