Libba Bray

A Great and Terrible Beauty In this Novel, Gemma Doyle, a proud sixteen year old, must leave her childhood home in India, to go to Spence Academy, a finishing school, just outside of London. After her mother's death, she feels like she is being watched. She soon finds out she has a very frightening destiny, but with the help of a couple of friends,will she choose to face it or not? The Gemma Doyle series is in the fantasy fiction genre. Libba Bray is the author of this spine chilling and unexpected plot turning book. Libba Bray is the author of multiple plays and novels such as: The Gemma Doyle Series, Going Bovine, and The Diviners. She was born on March 11, 1964. She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. Libba Bray lives in New…

It is unbelievable how much this book, Going Bovine, a Young Adult Comedy, by Libba Bray, can cram into 500 pages. This book has everything; happiness cults, dead jazz musicians, parallel time and dimension travel, and so much more. This book follows Cameron Smith, a high school stoner who is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or mad cow disease. While he is hospitalized, he meets a punk rocker angel named Dulcie. She tells him that he must find Dr. X, the only man on the planet who can…

Going Bovine Going Bovine is a dark comedy written by Libra Bray. Cameron is 16 and has various social problems. He lives with his parents and his very popular sister. He deals with his problems by smoking pot and listening to unusual music. When he experiences a bad trip, his body starts going out of whack. When this starts to slowly progress into something uncontrollable, his parents take him to the doctor. He is then diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease and he has no cure for it and has a…

imaginations thrive and explore. They keep our hopes and dreams alive, and can also provide an escape from the depressing world we all live in. In A Great And Terrible Beauty, the author Libba Bray builds a world where Gemma and her group of friends can only visit in their dreams. Gemma and her friends are whisked away to the Realms, where they can forget the troubles of their own life. The novel is very powerful based on the character 's development, the settings and the power of choices as…

stereotypes in a cliche set of fake, made up, pageant girls within Libba Bray’s novel, Beauty Queens, surprisingly moves away from this idea of satire when looking at the bare bones of the storyline. It’s a simple story of women, moving past the patriarchy they’ve been raised where beauty is everything, growing into who they truly are and celebrating their differences as humans, all while surviving being stranded on an island. However, the story does not originally start out like that. It holds…

turned out better than what I anticipated it to be. For me, it’s split into three categories. There are four stories that struck me, and gripped me, followed by four stories that are ordinary, but doable, while the remaining four stories doesn’t belong to this collection. 1. Head, Scales, Tongue, Tale by Leigh Bardugo – 3 stars This have the same story telling as The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, except I like the former much better. It’s a combination of contemporary mythology in a small town…

“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of all human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.” Libba Bary, bestselling fiction author, expresses the importance of libraries in the above quotation, stating that access to the public…

Young adult females often have a particularly difficult time finding positive role models that teach an appropriate transition from adolescence to adulthood. Between commercials, magazines, and movies pressuring girls to obtain impossible physical perfection, societal and school pressures, as well as body image and sexuality has become a key concern for young adult females. Fortunately, there are many young adult books that address these issues without reminding teens of a pamphlet in the…

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” (Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing) Change has been humanity’s companion for centuries. There is no way to describe the world except as “ever-changing.” And the companion to change has always been words. Words have instigated change and words have recorded it. The instigation of change is what makes words so important. And change is ever constant during times of war and times of civil protest. The words of works like…