Tuesday, 5 May 2009

A Good Read

I was inspired by the Vlogemotions carnival happening at Fort Thompson to produce a sort of video blog. The list of people there trying out the scary procedure for the first time made me really eager! Combine this with my desire to tell my readers about my bountiful bookcase and personal reading tastes, and you have yourself this post! I was a little nervous and a slight cold didn't exactly help matters, but thanks to a little chopping in Windows Movie Maker it all turned out great.

Books Mentioned During the Video
Red =
recommended (by me) for all ages
Starred with blue star (*) = my absolute favourites

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

*Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

*Lucas by Kevin Brooks

Candy by Kevin Brooks

*Witch Child by Celia Rees

Sorceress by Celia Rees

Waking Dream by Rhiannon Lassiter

Paralysed by Sherry Ashworth

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

*Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty

Calling Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty

Becoming Bindi Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty

Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning

Festival by David Belbin
*Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

*Voices by Sue Mayfield

*This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

*Before I Die by Jenny Downham

*Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman

Checkmate by Malorie Blackman

Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird

Reckless by Sue Mayfield


video

14 comments:

Melissa said...

Love it!! Books books and more books please!

I adore the music choice!

Melissa said...

Err! I forgot to ask you, how is your plunge into the classics going?

PetalsYoga said...

You are absolutely enchanting! I loved your choices and can't wait to read them. I watched your whole video and enjoyed every minute of it. I suspect we can expect to see great things from you in the future!

Tori_z said...

Very interesting.

A couple of those titles I'd seen and wondered if they were worth reading. Will have to give them a try.

Sally Ann said...

You clearly love your books & really sold them to me, I want to read them all!

Tim said...

Very nicely done! Loved the passion you have for your books and i could listen to your accent all day long.

The editing was great and it really added to the vlog.

Keep up the good work. The next Vlogemotions is tomorrow. I hope to see you again!

Make sure you follow Fort Thompson so that you can be entered to win the video camera, and dont forget to post the vlogemotions button so others can easily link back to the Mr. Linky to read others!

Great Job! So nice to meet you!

Love and Prayers,

Tim

Intense Guy said...

Loverly loverly accent. I could listen to you read the dictionary or the phone book all day long.

You are going to need both a bigger bookshelf and more of them!

Soon you will be a opening ip the Smiles in Easy Open Packages Library.

Deanna said...

I really enjoyed the video Jess. The intro music was perfect! And your expressions as you described each book was great. Nice accent there.

wife.mom.nurse said...

Came by way of Tim's...

That was a terrific post. Love it ")

Anna said...

Stargirl is my favorite of these books :)
I'm going to have to read more of the other ones.
Haha, yes, an hour and twenty-five minutes of math is TORTURE. But I'm okay. Some days.
And of course it's cool if you scan a hand-written entry! Love your doodles by the way :)

shelbyisms. said...

The books are a nice touch, most definitely.

LaurieJ said...

Thanks for the suggestions! Always looking for great books.

And I love the idea of your previous post. Blogging is great journaling but there is something about seeing a person's actual writing. Way to combine them!

Aren Becks said...

I love: Waking Dream, Jaclyn Moriaty books, and Checkmate.

ChicagoLady said...

I loved your video! And of course I love you accent, too. I can tell you really enjoy reading, and have a very grown-up way of describing them to us. You will need a larger bookcase very soon.

I'm assuming your brother helped with the editing? The part at the end, where you whipped through the books really fast had me laughing hysterically. Well done!