Sunglasses Books

This book is about three very close friends: Juniper, Gena, and Anne. They are the Fortune Tellers Club. Gena find a pair of cat-eye sunglasses in a thrift store and believes they can predict the future! Gina's friends laugh at her, but not for long. This is a well-written book, full of suspense. I wanted to keep reading and never put it down. It was a funny book at times, and serious at others. The story line was a little bit young. I would recommend this book to most kids who are ages seven to ten. The story moves quickly, and the characters have enough depth for teens to say "that's me," or "that's just like so-and-so." The interplay among the girls is excellent. One of the characters is dealing with a dad who wants to date again. Something today's kids can relate to. The author projects excellent imagery and its wholesome, fun reading. Kids at every age can use a reminder about the importance (and rules) of friendship. For those squeemish about mystical arts, it's an opportunity to talk with your kids and keep the 'evil' in perspective.

The Magic Shades is book 3 of the Fortune Tellers Club series and is told from the perspective of Gena Richmond. Gena is a tomboy who plays volleyball, and the jokester of the group. It's hard for her to take anything seriously! However, when she picks up a pair of cat-eye sunglasses in a thrift store and sees the future, she doesn't find anything funny about it! Will the woman in the thrift shop fall off a ladder? Will Anne become blind? Is her Dad's girlfriend snooping through her things? Gena becomes obsessed with the information she receives via the special sunglasses--but is she really seeing clearly?

The Fortune Tellers Club is a delightful series by professional storyteller Dotti Enderle. This series, geared towards ages 9-12, features three best friends--Juniper Lynch, Anne Donovan, and Gena Richmond--who use divination to solve mysteries, explain relationships, and understand life experiences.

Great suspense, true-to-life characters, and fine storytelling are all to be found in Book 3. This series just keeps getting better and better!

I've read all the Fortune Teller Club books and love them, especially The Magic Shades. The author is really hitting her stride with the characters here and the action has gotten even more interesting. It's a great read for girls of all ages, especially if you're interested in extra-sensory stories.

I hope the next one has dopplegangers in it. They're cool.

I love how Gena finds her shades in a thrift shop and they turn out to have special powers. The premise of this book excites the imagination. The telling of the story lives up to this promise.

The Fortune Tellers Club is back with their most mysterious book yet. Gena buys a magical pair of sunglasses which show her images of the future. But can the glasses be trusted? Are they predicting the future or casting a dark spell over Gena? Danger and mystery grow with each chapter -- until the thrilling conclusion. I'm already looking forward to the next book: The Secrets of the Lost Arrow.

My girls love to hear this book over and over again, or just sit and look at the bright and fun pictures!

Read this book to your preschoolers, or let your first or second grader read it to you! It has a timeless message, great art, and a neat twist at the end. Can your child solve the mystery? Definitely five stars!

This book has a really cute "suprise twist!" My kids like to read it over and over again.

The Sunglass Kid is a colorful, delightful book. I found myself going back to the illustrations to enjoy the rich colors and hunt all those sunglasses. Definitely a "child-pleaser" whether you read it with your child or listen while your beginning reader reads to you! A must for any child's bookshelf.

Exquisitely crafted and cunningly intricate, Elated Eyes in Sunglasses is a veritable wealth of self-reflection and social commentary. From the extensive and truly admirable collection of poetry contained in the Alpha Poetica section to her remarkable play Polarity, Amanda Seufert is shown to have an amazing gift for conveying emotion. Without a doubt, Amanda Seufert is one of those rare writers whose works will be cherished for generations.

John Cross

My daughter and I read this book. It was outrageously funny. Its a great read together book for the whole family. While reading, we incorporated discussions of social issues. The best part about this book was that we could add "attitudes" to our voices as we read, this was most enjoyable for my daughter.

Will The Spy Girlz win the big music competition?

Nancy, Bess and George are into the world of rock music. Their favorite rock singer is in town for a concert, and it's for sure that everyone wants tickets. If you want to sit front row center, you'll just have to win the singing competition in River Heights.

Nancy and friends have a great advantage. They've been allowed to borrow a pair of sunglasses that actually belonged to their very own rock idol, Eric Stanley! That's sure to make an impression on stage -- until the glasses turn up missing.

Nancy Drew is on the case, and with some super detective work, she'll be back on stage with Bess and George.

Young readers will adore this fun mystery with the world of music as a backdrop!

Vampire hybrid slayer's mental reintregration.


Sonja Blue follows in the tradition of Blade, but her unfortunate torture and medical intervention incident comes at a much later age. Attacked by a vampire she managed to avoid the whole vampire demon thing and ends in a hospital, and then an asylum.

This leads her on a pretty dark psychological journey after escape, and given she is immune to most vampire weaknesses in this universe - sunlight, holy water, being really stupid because of transformation which she escapes, becoming a vampire slayer is a natural for her after it is suggested.

No romance here, in this dark and twisted supernatural world with many other monsters other than vampires.


3.5 out of 5

How this series remains so widely ignored is beyond me. Perhaps Sonja Blue gets [mistreated] by other books because it predates more current popular series. Start reading it, start loving it. Stop wasting time on newer stuff until you have read this. Love the complexity and originality of her writing. Her charater is three-dimensional, not just colorful adjectives on paper. There is a practicality you will find shared between Nancy's A. Collins' Sonja Blue and Laurell K. Hamiltons' Anita Blake that is refreshing. Although the characters share the job description of vampire hunter, they are very different - one being a vampire and one being human - they each lend a new perspective on the genre.

i read this book and it was very vey good, it had alot of actoin and iit was an over all good book

The book starts in an asylum where "Blue, S." is the newest addition to the Danger Ward. Her interior monolog is awkwardly written; the segues into the life of an orderly and the antics of a female tele-evangelist seem more like poorly written subplots than actual narrative elements. Finally, around page 116, Sonja Blue breaks out of her institutional prison, and the pace picks up.

Sonja's descriptions of her "birth" (becoming a vampire) and her years slumming around Europe are interesting, sometimes tasteless. The hunting sprees (she hunts other vampires) add some action, but are more or less pointless. The final climactic event (Sonja vs. Crazed Tele-evangelist) was one other high point, but on the scale of Sonja's life doesn't register higher than a blip. Thus, the entire book seems like an excuse to waste paper and the ending screams "sequel" but I won't be reading it.

Sonja Blue is not a badass. She is a scarred, deeply disturbed girl (disappointingly, she became a vampire because she was stupid, and then runs around hating her maker). The book itself is filled with blood and guts, tasteless sex, none of it exceptionally well-written. Get this one from the library.

"Sunglasses After Dark" is a book that haunts you days after you finish it. Nancy Collins masterfully takes us into a dark and violent world where things are never what they seem. After reading Anne Rice's books I thought that no one could come even close to her originality when talking about vampires, but this book proved me wrong. It pulls no punches and spares no graphic details. I love that in an author and in a book. Read this book. You won't regret it.

There are some weird grownups in Bailey City. But could the boat instructor at Camp lone Wolf really be a pirate searching for money and treasures? The Bailey School Kids Are Going To Find Out!

I like this book becase the end is good and begining.I am going to read more books of the baley scoole kids.

If vampires don't wear polka-dots, and genies don't ride bicycles, then a pirate certainly wouldn't be caught wearing pink sunglasses, would he??

Welcome to book #9 in the Bailey School Kid's series (which I affectionately call the "...Don't..." series for it's wonderful titles of mythical/magical creatures who don't do something or other). This time the kids are off (again!) to camp Lone Wolf (originally visited in book #2, Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp). Every year they take place in a rowing competition, and every year they are trounced. That is, maybe until THIS year when Captain Read shows up!

And what a character the Captain is! He sports a striped shirt and dewrag like a real pirate, and even has an obnoxious parrot that spouts bits of wisdom and seems to be spying on the gang. Read seems to know a great deal about an ancient buried treasure that a mad female pirate had buried around Bailey City somewhere. Some kids even begin to think he IS a pirate. But, if he WAS, he wouldn't be wearing those giant pink sunglasses, would he...?? WOULD he...??

I've reviewed the other books leading up to this one, and again I must say that the "...Don't..." series is a fine choice for beginning/intermediate readers. The pace of the text is quick, easy to read (I can polish off one of these books in about 20 minutes) and fun. While not spooky like some others in this series, "Pirates Don't..." is a lot of fun. One can just hear Captain Read growling in a guttural Irish/sea shanty sort of voice as he calls out "ahoy!" and all that piratical stuff (this would make a good selection for reading aloud simply for the chance to make fun voices).

As per usual in the series, Eddie doesn't believe Captain Read is a pirate or is in search of buried treasure, and children could easily copy him and make a game out of arguing if or if not the Captain really IS a pirate. This is a good deal of the series' appeal, I think: the small group of students who seem to be the only ones who notice anything weird going on and their investigations into whether or not these strange folk are what they might be (a vampire, werewolf, ghost, pirate, etc...).

Although the series is in numerical order (as of this writing, it goes up to at least 40), and though some characters make reappearances, it isn't necessary to begin reading at any given point to enjoy the series. Grab one or two (including "Pirates Don't...") and see if YOU too, aren't hooked!!

You really can't go wrong with SS! All the books and movies are wholesome and entertaining. I love reading them to my daughter and watching the movies with her. Actually, my son loves them too but would never admit it to his friends (he's 9). Good thing he has a little sister ;)

My three-year-old fights sleep, but we have found that we can read her to sleep with the various Strawberry books. They are cute enough to maintain her attention, but not so exciting as to wake her back up. The names of characters and places can be a bit much for adults to take, but I will probably buy more books in the series since they teach good lessons about friendship & sharing (and they do help settle our little night owl!)

I bought this book and loved it... but in the processing of moving I misplaced it and had to co back to Amazon and buy it again... it's that good!

Sugarman is brilliant marketer and seems like a great human being. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in mastering the art of marketing... whether on tv or not!

Jesse Cannone

Sugarman is a TV home shopping success and after reading his book I now know why! Hard work, good insight, lessons learned both good and bad and energy! It is a tough business and this investment will pay off many times if you stick to Joe's way!

A truly dreadful book -- snarky, cynical, without charm. The author convinced me she believes she is clever, but utterly obnoxious. I felt no identification with her as a person, she seemed quite sure of herself and her opinions and therefore lacking in true humor, which requires a modicum of personal modesty. Speaking of modesty, the writing is cheap and vulgar. I found nothing to admire in this book.

This was such fun to read. Brits have different writing styles than Americans, and so I had to WORK a little harder to read this book (and I mean that in a good way). It's a hoot.

As much as I'm a fanatic about following Project Runway, the fashion industry takes itself waaay too seriously, so this book is a great leveler. The "encyclopedia" approach makes it a perfect book to dip into little spoonsful at a time and, like the best premium pint of ice cream, it's rich with humor and not too sweet.

Yes, this is a highly entertaining book for anyone interested in fashion, particularly for those aware of its frequently ludicrous and self-delusional aspects. However, as funny as the author can be, she relies on five or six forms of witticism that have become predictable by p. 117, let alone p. 234 (THE END). Furthermore, why the obsession with Kate Moss?! I think most of us who care about fashion have long since figured her--and her fashion-world significance--out. Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan...likewise, not really what I'm responding to these days. I was hoping for a bit more insight, something beyond the People/Us demographic of fashion reception. The author cites Anna Wintour several times, but doesn't engage with the Vogue reader who's genuinely interested in the aesthetics of women's wear. She's mostly worried our heels are too high and we insist on showing cleavage and wearing thongs. Yup, got it already, and without a flippant how-to manual, too. And how about not biting the hand that feeds us? I'm willing to bet the author prefers her Miu Miu's to her Easy Spirit's just like the rest of us!

I got this book to bring as a light entertaining read to bring on vacation. Unfortunately, reading this book was like being stuck watching an unfunny comedienne go on and on and on with the same tired old gripes about fashion. She starts off mildly amusing and insightful, but this quickly deteriorates into whining. I never laughed, I don't think I even cracked a smile.