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Manga Man (Barry Lyga) 2 out of 5
Longtime readers of this blog may suspect that graphic novels always get high ratings. It’s true: I’m crazy about Sandman and can’t say enough good things about Locke & Key. How… more →
Living by Fiction
The tale of rejection
wrote 10 months ago: Okay, so I still haven’t written about the Queen. I will. I promise. Today we talk about rejec … more →
Divergent (Veronica Roth) 2 out of 5
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wrote 1 year ago: Divergent is supposed to be a tough-girl dystopian adventure following on the heels of Katniss and K … more →
Manga Man (Barry Lyga) 2 out of 5
wrote 1 year ago: Longtime readers of this blog may suspect that graphic novels always get high ratings. It’s t … more →
Left Behind
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wrote 1 year ago: Has anyone out there read The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen? I’ve had it on my reading list … more →
Fifty Shades of Grey - DRINKING GAME RULES
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wrote 1 year ago: This book is so exuberantly, hilariously flawed that it requires a drinking game. Drink every time: … more →
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) 2*
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wrote 1 year ago: If you’ve ever read a science fiction book, this book will bore the pants off you (and not in … more →
The Help (Kathryn Stockett) 2*
wrote 1 year ago: People seem to have a lot to say about this book, but I am far too bored to say very much. Briefly: … more →
Moonshine (Alaya Dawn Johnson) 2*
wrote 1 year ago: This book definitely reads like a first novel, which confuses the hell out of me because it’s … more →
Beauty Queens (Libba Bray) 2*
wrote 1 year ago: This one is better than Going Bovine, but I’m officially done reading Libba Bray. In Beauty Q … more →
Imagined London (Anna Quindlen) 1*
wrote 1 year ago: This book, it had so much potential. The first pages warble lyrically about how many times Anna Qui … more →
Eight Days of Luke (Diana Wynne Jones) 2*
wrote 1 year ago: A lightweight book wherein the main character meets a Somebody from the Norse pantheon every day for … more →
Looking for Alaska (John Green) 3*
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wrote 1 year ago: I don’t know if the author intended this to read like a re-tread of A Separate Peace, but it s … more →
Going Bovine (Libba Bray) 2*
wrote 1 year ago: Whom should I blame for my lack of enchantment with this book? I have to take the non-self-hating o … more →
Lock and Key (Sarah Dessen) 4*; The Treasure Map of Boys (E. Lockhart) 2*
wrote 1 year ago: I’m reviewing these two together because they’re both about girls named Ruby, and possib … more →
The Truth About Forever (Sarah Dessen) 3.5*; Jellicoe Road (Melina Marchetta) 3*
wrote 1 year ago: What is up with the Hand of Fate bringing young people together? Nothing irritates me as much as be … more →
Terry Pratchett Hitlist
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wrote 2 years ago: Here they are, in order of publication. So far the trendline shows that Pratchett gets better as he … more →
book meme
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wrote 3 years ago: Here in this half-forgotten corner I present a perishable little meme (possibly my first and last): … more →
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Natalie Angier) 1*
wrote 3 years ago: This ain’t no whirligig tour. This is a no-end-in-sight slog for people who don’t … more →
Twilight, part 2
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wrote 3 years ago: How can these wretched books be taking up 4 of the top 12 Amazon bestseller spots? Simultaneously! … more →
