Writer's Molasses

I am coining this term, Writer's Molasses. It's what I have right now. Personally, I think it's worse than writer's block, mainly because you know what you want to write, you just don't know how to write it. So it ends up taking you an hour just to write two or three sentences and it's so easy to get distracted since it's not like you're coming up with much anyway. At least with writer's block you have no idea what you want to write. If writer's block is wanting cookies, writer's molasses is wanting cookies that you can smell your mom making for the band booster's bake sale and you can't eat any of them, and they're your favorite kind made just how you like them and the smell is so mouthwatering that you'd gladly wade through ten miles of raw sewage (since the smell is strong enough to cross through the stench somehow) to them.
Yeah, I hate this.
-Heather

Lemonade Mouth: A Review

Title: Lemonade Mouth
Author: Mark Peter Hughes
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Where I Found It: Library
Summary: A desperate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school tablet show and end up competing wit a wildly popular local rock band.
General Impression: Really fun read. Not many books can pull off the multiple narrators as well as this book did. It didn't matter if I missed the heading with the characters name on it, a few sentences into the first paragraph, and I'd know who was talking. The characters were amazing, mainly because they were so relatable while having their own individual quirks. Their struggle were struggles you'd expect from high school teens, but as you got to know the character more, you see just how much these struggles effect them on the most basic levels. I would recommend this book for anyone who hates the high school hierarchy or anyone who loves books about high school life.
-Heather

Running Loose: A Review

Title: Running Loose
Authour: Chris Crutcher
Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Where I Found It: Library
Summary: Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.
General Impression: The book had the emotional moments, interesting characters, and deeper themes that I've come to expect from Chris Crutcher. So, of course it was good, just not anything suprising. So basically, if you want to know how I feel about this book, check out some of my other reviews for books by Chris Crutcher, it'll amount to about the same thing.
-Heather
P.S. Don't let that football player on the front confuse you. This isn't much of a sports book.