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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Book Review 23: The Big Field by Mike Lupica

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Blech. This was a very hard read for me. Yes, the story was good I suppose. But all the baseball talk and terms was so annoying, or not a...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Book Review 22: The Rule of Won by Stefan Petrucha

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Wow, I have to say I REALLY liked this book. It's basically kind of a spoof on the book "The Secret". Where it says if you ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Book Review 21: Boost by Kathy Mackel

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Boost is about a 13 year old girl named Savvy who is REALLY tall and REALLY good at basketball. She's just moved to live with her aunt ...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Book Review 20: The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail by Michael P. Spradlin

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So, I am not really into the whole "Templars" and Holy Grail kind of story. But it was interesting enough. I could see how kids ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Book Review 19: Shifty by Lynn E. Hazen

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After Gone I needed a "realistic" fiction type of book, plus, this book I couldn't renew, it had a hold on it, along with some...

Book Review 18: Gone by Michael Grant

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This was a really long book, took me a few days to finish all over 500 pages. The book starts out with Sam sitting in class, and his teache...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Book Review 17: The White Gates by Bonnie Ramthun

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From the cover I first thought it was a skateboard, but turns out it was a snowboard. Tor is the main character, and the book begins with h...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Book Review 16: Jack: Secret Histories by F. Paul Wilson

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So, I've always thought about reading the Repairman Jack novels by F. Paul Wilson, but never got around to it. I'm pretty sure this...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Book Review 15: Little Audrey by Ruth White

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This was a tiny, tiny book for this age of kids to read. Only 146 pages, so no wonder I finished it in the same day as when I started. Don...

Book Review 14: Compound by S.A. Bodeen

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I liked the premise of this book, it actually reminded me of the movie with Brendan Fraser called Blast from the Past, only the book wasn...

Book Review 13: My Father's Son by Terri Fields

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This was a pretty good mystery with a kind of twist ending. Wasn't sure about it, but overall I liked it. Kevin Windor's parents a...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Book Review 12: The Otherworldlies by Jennifer Anne Kogler

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Now, let me start off by saying that this was a good enough book. Whenever I picked it up, it was hard to put down, but it did have some is...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Book Review 11: Jump the Cracks by Stacy DeKeyser

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So, I'm now over a fifth of the way through the books I've got to read by December 1st. yay!! This book was not too bad. The main...
Monday, September 7, 2009

Book Review 10: Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

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I must admit once again I was not expecting to be thrilled by my latest book on the list. And once again I was wrong. In fact, I really, r...
Sunday, September 6, 2009

Book Review 9: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

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Once again, a book I wasn't sure about. I remember someone I'm friends with on Goodreads.com putting this on their to-read list, an...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Book Review 8: Hershey Herself by Cecilia Galante

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I tend to prefer more fantasy or sci fi books. So I wasn't really looking forward to a more "realistic" book. But as I think...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Book Review 7: Voss: How I Come to America and am Hero, Mostly by David Ives

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This book was one I actually am not a huge fan of. The story was only a little okay. It was told with bad spelling, to make you "hear...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Book Review 6: The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman

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I'm not quite sure about this one. It was an interesting read at least. I tend to enjoy books that are set in the "near" fut...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Book Review 5: Suck it Up by Brian Meehl

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I knew this was about vampires, and while I'm really into that since Buffy, Twilight, and True Blood now, I'm very skeptical of all ...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Book Review 4: The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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The Boy Who Dared is actually a novel based on a true story of a German boy. He actually belonged to the Hitler Youth. He wasn't reall...
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