The James Logan Courier

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

“My sisters Amy and Gretchen were, at the time, undergoing therapy for their lazy eyes, while my older sister, Lisa, had been born with a lazy leg that refused to grow at the same rate as its twin. She’d worn a corrective brace for the first two years of her life, and wherever she roamed she left a trail of scratch marks in the soft pine floor. I liked the idea that a part of one’s body might be thought of as lazy—not thoughtless or hostile, just unwilling to extend itself for the betterment of the team.”

In his collection of autobiographical essays, Sedaris helps you take a peek at his life—and at the reality of your own. There are some who find this unacceptable. He is cynical and tells you like it is, in the process making fun of himself, his family, his friends, and Americans in general. He sugar-coats nothing. Not his drug habits, not his homosexuality, not his lack of motivation. He is true to himself. Best of all, he is hilarious. Me Talk Pretty One Day is the funniest book I have ever read. I cracked up, I chuckled, heck, I even giggled several times. His sense of humor appealed to me, and I can honestly say that I have never enjoyed a book quite as much as I enjoyed this one.

By Brandie Moore, Courier Book Editor

“I attacked him, leaping out in an offensive maneuver I hadn’t used in two years, not since Lissa and I had run away. The moved was stupid, another reaction born of instinct and fear. And it was hopeless. He was a skilled guardian, not a novice who hadn’t finished his training. He also wasn’t weak and on the verge of passing out.”

The book begins when the main characters, Lissa and Rose, are caught two years after running away and are put back to the one place the do not want to be: St. Vladimir’s Academy, an elegant school in Montana all the vampires attend.
Vampire Academy a vampire story like no other. It differs from the oh-so-popular vampire seriesTwilight by Stephenie Meyer, but is just as good. If you’re a Twilight fan I am certin that Vampire Academy will satisfy you just as much.