I could not put this book down! I read it over 3 days, and unfortunately I had to work those days, or it would’ve been 1 day! A friend from work knows I love to read. She also knows I read Gone Girl, and that I liked it. Gone Girl is actually mentioned on the front cover of this book. To me, the only similarities between Reconstructing Amelia and Gone Girl is that the stories are told by two different people, and there’s a mysterious […]
Mediocre but enjoyable.
Sometimes college instructors who have a lot of papers to grade will use a method in which they find a paper that is a good representative of each letter grade and then group other papers accordingly. If I were to do that with books, this one would be a perfect three star example. The premise of NEED is that a new social media website pops up and starts sending invitations to the students of one particular high school. If they join and invite some number […]
Couldn’t the whole book have been about the Monkey King?
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Fair warning, all. Over the next week or so (I can’t imagine it’s going to take me that much longer), I aim to read ALL the comic book trades and/or graphic novels that the husband and I own, and that I haven’t gotten round to reading. Actually, in all honesty, it’s not all of them, we have a ton of Hellblazer and Jack Kirby comics and all manner of things my husband owns that I have little to NO interest in, but there are 18 […]
This book brought to you by a bunch of flimsy plot devices.
A smart, motivated, well liked high school good girl (Amelia) jumps or is pushed from the roof of her private school. Her single mom (Kate), a high powered attorney who’s extremely insecure about being a single mom, starts nosing around Amelia’s life to try to understand what happened. She’s totally bewildered and never saw it coming at all, and some circumstances surrounding her death don’t make sense (mainly that she jumped/was pushed immediately after being accused of plagiarizing a paper, which such a smart motivated […]
For Gina, and Meika, and Keri – thanks for picking me up.
Jane, the Fox, and Me by Fanny Britt, Isabelle Arsenault (Illustrator), Christelle Morelli (Translator), Susan Ouriou (Translator)
My choice to read Jane, the Fox, and Me was influenced by my participation in the Read Harder Challenge. Tasks 19 and 20 are to read a work originally published in another language and a graphic novel, graphic memoir, or collection of comics of any kind. I had some other books picked out for these tasks, and I have every intention of reading them, but when bonnie and the Chancellor’s reviews of this book back in January I knew that this was something I wanted […]
Let’s stop telling girls to “be nice”; that’s what makes them into Mean Girls.
I know, it sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s true. It turns them into one of the more difficult types of bully to deal with, a silent one.
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