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Dreadlock Girl is hosting the Read.Read.Read-a-Thon tomorrow, December 5th! I'm very excited to join in. Even though I did stumble upon it a little short notice. But never let it be said that I can't drop everything and have a readathon whenever, wherever. Here are the books I'm going to try ...
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Collins, Wilkie. 1870. Man and Wife. 688 pages. On a summer's morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay. No matter how you look at it, Man and Wife is a strange and often ...
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Austen, Catherine. 2009. Walking Backward. Orca Book Publishers. 167 pages. My father is insane. Josh and his younger brother Sam are struggling to cope with the death of their mother who died in a car accident. (Josh is twelve. Sam is four or five.) This "accident" was no accident. The ...
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Scott, Elizabeth. 2010. The Unwritten Rule. Simon & Schuster. 210 pages. (April 2010, tentatively) I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to. Sarah has liked Ryan for years. (Since he asked her to a dance ...
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Kidd, Ronald. 2009. The Year of the Bomb. Simon & Schuster. 202 pages. There were Martians in the backyard. This is why I love the Cybils. I love discovering books like this one. The cover on this one didn't thrill me. It didn't say read me, read me. But. This book was oh-so-good. And I ...
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Stewart, Trenton Lee. 2009. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma. Little, Brown Young Readers. 391 pages. In a city called Stonetown, on the third floor of an old, gray-stoned house, a boy named Reynie Muldoon was considering his options. This is the third book in the ...
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These are a few of my favorite 'first' lines read in November of 2009: For months I had wished and wished the baby would be a girl, a little sister. Maybe I shouldn't have wished so hard. A boy might have lived . All this happened, more or less . I spend a lot of time thinking about f-words ...
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I completed Dewey's Books Reading Challenge . Each of these books were recommended (and/or reviewed) by Dewey of Hidden Side of A Leaf. 1. Chocolat by Joanne Harris 2. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3. Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman. 1986. 4. Maus II : ...
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Pratchett, Terry. 2008. Nation. HarperCollins. 370 pages. Imo set out one day to catch some fish, but there was no sea. Because the prologue didn't hook me, I put off reading this one. Despite the fact that oh-so-many were blogging about it and singing its praises, I wasn't sure this would ...
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Happy Sunday everyone! November is almost gone whether it feels like it or not. I read some great books this week. Nation wowed me almost from the start. I can't believe I put off reading it so long. I hope to have a review up tomorrow. It was my last book needed for completing Dewey's ...
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Gordon, Jeffie Ross. 1985. Jacquelyn. Scholastic. Sunfire Romance. 332 pages. Christmas vacation! Home, presents, and time to spend with Broderick! This one is set in the Depression. In Chicago. Beginning at the end of 1931, to be exact. Jacquelyn, our heroine, may seem like a spoiled brat ...
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A Classic Collectible Pop-Up: The Sound of Music. By Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lindsay & Crouse. Adapted by Bert Fink. Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. Paper Engineering by Bruce Foster. 2009. Simon & Schuster. October 2009. 14 pages. If you love the Sound of Music, then this really ...
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Brown, Linda Beatrice. 2009. Black Angels. Penguin. 260 pages. Luke took the key out of the sideboard drawer in the dining room, took a rifle and put the key back very carefully. Luke is a slave contemplating running away. He hopes to join up with the Union army. He isn't quite sure where or ...
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Preller, James. 2009. Bystander. Feiwel and Friends. 226 pages. The first time Eric Hayes ever saw him, David Hallenback was running, if you could call it that, running in a halting, choppy-stepped, stumpy-legged shamble, slowing down to look back over his shoulder, stumbling forward, pausing ...
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Heyer, Georgette. 1949/2009. Arabella. Sourcebooks. 312 pages. The schoolroom in the parsonage at Heythram was not a large apartment, but on a bleak January day, in a household where the consumption of coals was a consideration, this was not felt by its occupants to be a disadvantage. ...
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Happy Sunday everyone! I can't believe it is almost Thanksgiving! Reading challenges have been popping up ALL over the place. Which is just TOO MUCH fun. I just love discovering new challenges and seeing if they fit into my reading for next year. To keep track of which challenges I'm joining, ...
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Biblio File 's challenge . February 1, 2009 through February 1, 2010 1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Comedy) 2. Silas Marner by George Eliot (State of the Nation) 3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Love) 4. Maus I by Art Spiegelman; Maus II by Art Spiegelman (War and Travel) 5. The ...
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This week's weekly geek is to list our top ten published in 2009. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork. (YA Realistic Fiction) The Ask and the Answer . Patrick Ness. (YA Science Fiction) All the Broken Pieces . Ann E. Burg. (YA Historical Fiction, YA Verse Novel) Lips Touch Three ...
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January : House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne February: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck, Burning Bright by John Steinbeck, Winter of Our Discontent by ...
