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Thursday, May 31, 2012

REVIEW: Deadly Cool (Veronica Mars, this heroine is not...)

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Halliday, G .  (2011).   Deadly Cool .   New York:  Harper Teen. 303 pages. Appetizer:   Sixteen-year-old Hartley has been hearing rum...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

REVIEW: The Brimstone Journals

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Koertge, R .  (2001).   The Brimstone Journals .  Somerville:  Candlewick 113 pages Appetizer:   Branston High has the inauspicious ni...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

REVIEW: I Don't Want to Kill You

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Wells, D .  (2011).   I Don't Want to Kill You .  New York:  Tor Books. 320 pages. Appetizer:   In the final installment of the I ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

REVIEW: Insurgent Audio Book Review

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Pretty cover! Roth, V.  (2012).   Insurgent .  New York:  Harper Audio. 11 hours and 22 minutes. So, as is obvious in my review of t...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

REVIEW: Darkness Becomes Her (A kinda PG-13 fun Anita Blake or less funny more action-oriented Paranormalcy/Stephanie Plum

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Keaton, K .  (2011).   Darkness Becomes Her .  New York:  Simon Pulse. 273 pages. Appetizer:   Seventeen-year-old Ari has gone searchi...
Monday, May 21, 2012

REVIEW: Fake Mustache (Fun, but I missed Origami Yoda)

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Angleberger, T.  (2012).   Fake Mustache .  New York:  Abrams. 196 pages. Looking at this book's endpages, for the first time eve...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

REVIEW: Why We Broke Up

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Handler, D. & Kalman, M.  (2011).   Why We Broke Up.   New York:  Little, Brown and Company. 354 pages. Why We Broke Up  isn't...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

REVIEW: I Hunt Killers (A teenage Dexter Meets Dan Wells's I Am Not a Serial Killer. Enjoyable, but it doesn't really distinguish itself from similar books.)

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Lyga, B.  (2012).   I Hunt Killers .  New York:  Little, Brown and Company. 361 pages. Appetizer:   Jazz Dent is watching the police a...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Remembering Maurice Sendak

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Over the last several months, I'd been thinking about famed picturebook author Maurice Sendak. It bagan with the two-part Grim Colbert...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Audiobook Review: Rotters

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Kraus, D.  (2011).   Rotters .  New York:  Delacorte Press. 448 pages. Rotters won the 2012 Odyssey Award.  Since I was so in love wi...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

#Challenge: YA Paranormal Romance Review Mad-Lib

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Back by popular demand! Here's another Mad Lib for your enjoyment.  This one is structured roughly as a review of a YA paranormal rom...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

REVIEW: Chopsticks (OHMYGOSH, AWESOME! One story: told in music, illustration, texts, articles and videos. Read it now!)

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Anthony, J. & Corral, R.  (2012).   Chopsticks .  New York:  Razorbill. No page numbers....but, I'd guess it's more than 300...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

REVIEW: Slice of Cherry (Kill Bill + Dexter + a lot of magical realism)

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Reeves, D.  (2011).   Slice of Cherry.   New York:  Simon Pulse. 505 pages. Appetizer:   Sisters Kit and Fancy are close.  Very close....
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

REVIEW: The Cupid War (Kinda like the TV Show Dead Like Me, but with Cupids instead of Reapers)

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Carter, T.  (2011).   The Cupid War .  Woodbury, MN:  Flux Appetizer:   Immediately after deciding *not* to commit suicide by jumping of...