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‘Tis the Season By: Lorna Landvik I don't believe I've reviewed a Landvik title for you yet and that is a shame! Lorna is a Minnesota author whose writing is full of humor and honesty that really help to make you feel connected to her characters...
Little Brother By: Cory Doctorow I'll admit it, I have a bit of an issue with paranoia, but I think it has now been magnified 20-fold by reading this book. I am not meaning that as a, "Run for your life!" type statement, rather it's...
Big Fat Little Lit Edited By: Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly I found this book browsing in a bookstore in Washington (yes, I visit bookstores in other states if I get the chance! Libraries too!). I hadn't heard of them before, but I recognized...
A Lion Among Men By: Gregory Maguire Any Wizard of Oz fans out there? How about Wicked ? The book or the musical? Wicked was published in 1995, but I didn't discover the beauty of the book until about 2004-ish, but once I picked it up, I was hooked...
Well hello strangers! I really didn't forget to post, I've just been too busy! I was going to post this one last Friday for the spookiness factor, but it just didn't happen. My apologies and enjoy! The Graveyard Book By: Neil Gaiman Illustrated...
Rapunzel's Revenge By: Shannon & Dean Hale Illustrated By: Nathan Hale Oh was I excited for this one! It's the tale of Rapunzel re-written to make her more of an independent cowgirl than the role of damsel-in-distress. Guess what the added...
Sunrise Over Fallujah By: Walter Dean Myers This is an extremely emotional yet unemotional tale at the same time. I'm really not trying to be contradictory, but when you read a book about the day to day life in a war zone you're going to come...
Thirteen Reasons Why By: Jay Asher For a first book Asher tackles an uncomfortable subject for many people: teenage suicide. Honestly, I really wasn't sure about this book, but I figured it's a relevant topic in today's society and one that...
Anansi Boys By: Neil Gaiman Fat Charlie Nancy is your average, every-day kind of guy. He gets up, goes to work, sees his fiancée, Rosie, and starts all over again. No, he really isn't fat; he's actually skinny guy with a horrible name. Charlie...
The Mysterious Benedict Society By: Trenton Lee Stewart There's no better place to start this review out than with the first thing you see on the back of the book: "Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" Reynie Muldoon...
Jamaica Inn By: Daphne DuMaurier Did you think I'd abandoned you? Silly! Of course not! I just took a little time off to go see my sister and her husband, which, by the way, the long travelling bits offered some quality reading time! We meet Mary...
I know you are all excited to start your summers of sand and sun (hopefully!) and maybe even that great new job you've landed now that you're graduated, but since: I will be here all summer I will still be reading (always!) I have no plans for...
The Wee Free Men By: Terry Pratchett I should start out by telling you this is my first Pratchett book. That is really surprising since he writes for both children and adults, and, well, I spend enough time around books that you would think I would have...
The Princess Bride By: S. Morgenstern or, is it William Golding First off, this book is brilliant. I can't believe I've waited this long to read it! Honestly, it's been on my list for years, I just never picked it up. Until now! Holy complications...
Ophelia By: Lisa Klein Author Lisa Klein felt that Shakespeare gave Ophelia a raw deal when he wrote "Hamlet." Ophelia plays a pretty minor part, but something about her just didn't add up for Klein, so she decided to tell us Ophelia's...
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