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30 Days of Books Meme–Day 4
Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever This is a VERY difficult one to answer.  There are so many books that I truly love, and choosing just one among many feels sort of like trying to choose a favorite child. I suppose the two series that made the greatest impression upon me growing [...]
August 8, 2010
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30 Days of Books Meme–Day 3
Day 03 – The best book you’ve read in the last 12 months Hands down, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  It is filled with humor but manages to not make light of serious issues.  Plus, it is one of the few books I’ve ever read that made me both [...]
August 7, 2010
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30 Days of Books Meme–Day 2
Day 02 – A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about A lot of YA series have gotten a lot of attention lately.  From Twilight to Percy Jackson, Hollywood has discovered that young readers make a good target audience.  Yet, I feel that they have overlooked a positive gem in [...]
August 6, 2010
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30 Days of Books Meme–Day 1
Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!) Well, when I was a kid, I really wished that The Lord of the Rings went on and on.  I was somewhat satiated when the Silmarillion was finally published, but [...]
August 5, 2010
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Setting Goals for 2010
This is my kind of New Year’s resolution: every year I set a goal for how many books or pages (or both) I’d like to read in the upcoming year. Originally, I was inspired by the 50-book-challenge that was making the rounds on social networking websites (namely LJ, which I frequented at the time). I [...]
January 5, 2010
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Falling Behind
Sorry, I’m a bit behind on my reviews. I’m still reading, of course, just haven’t managed to write anything meaningful about them yet. My spring break is coming up soon, and I hope to have time then to write some meaningful posts. For now, here is a great quote I came across while reading Jane [...]
March 10, 2008
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I am Legend
Unfortunately, I have not read the book yet but, being as it is sort of a zombie movie, my husband dragged me to see it opening weekend. I must admit that the premise intrigued me. I’m a moderate sci.fi. fan, and a huge fan of the apocalyptic/distopian genre. I just don’t like to be scared [...]
December 17, 2007
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I couldn’t pass the quote up…
“The secret to teaching was to place yourself where you could see them but they couldn’t see you. And nothing was more deadly than the reverse. Chalkboards were for chumps.” from The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler I just laughed myself silly over the first half dozen pages of chapter three. If [...]
July 19, 2007
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When Worlds Collide
I’ve finally drummed up another quote, since I haven’t finished another book yet, and thus cannot offer another review. This one comes from A Passage to India which I am currently reading with my senior classes. The setting is a town in India during that country’s colonial period. Forster goes to great lengths to establish [...]
May 3, 2007
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Lightening the Mood a Bit
Bumper stickers usually annoy me. Either I completely disagree with their message (usually the political ones), find them absolutely pointless (“Honk if you like X”), or can’t read the teensy little print and am left wondering if they aren’t really a hazard to other drivers. Then, occasionally, I see one that I find really, really [...]
April 19, 2007
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