Bloggin 'Bout Books Blog

Hello Lovelies! To match up with last week's WCW on Maureen Johnson, my TBT is 13 Little Blue Envelopes! I just realized that photo is of the cover for the audio, but I read the book. It's the best picture of the cover I could find so I'm going to keep it.  13 Little Blue Envelopes  follows Ginny on a European adventure. After Ginny's Aunt Peg dies, she leaves behind a treasure hunt (of sorts) for Ginny: 13 little blue envelopes with instructions inside. Thus begins her adventure. I honestly need to reread this book. I think I first read it Freshman year of high school (yikes that's 10 years ago!!! Eeeech!!). I loved it. It was a fun and heart-warming story. I mean, I obviously knew it was unrealistic. My parents let me go to France with a summer group and still had issues letting me leave, but I didn't care. The great thing about books is that they'll let you believe the impossible. And who hasn't wanted to drop everything in li...

I read 13 Little Blue Envelopes sometime during high school--I can't quite remember when. And I loved it. I pushed it on my friends. I sought out other books by the author. The other books were also amazing ( The Bermudez Triangle , Suite Scarlett , The Key to the Golden Firebird ). Then I started following Johnson on twitter, and oh my gosh, a whole new world. Maureen Johnson is an incredible person. She's witty and hilarious and just generally over all wonderful. She seems to have a lot of bad things happen (She's been in and out of the hospital for like a year including the same surgery two times), but she's delightfully optimistic about it all. It's occasionally hard to tell if she's actually optimistic or if her sense of humor is so sarcastic that it's actually a whole new level, but she usually seems genuine about her bright outlook. Her first book was published in 2004, and since then she's had eleven books published so-far as well as ...