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Book Review: The Bum Magnet
You know "the one," right? The one who cheated. The one who lied. The one who broke my damn heart. The one who kept calling my house begging me to take his conniving ass...
Book Review: My Life as a Rhombus
My mouth dropped open, and suddenly, I knew. Unfortunately for Sarah, everything now made sense. I checked out My Life as a Rhombus by Varian Johnson two other times from the...
Book Review: Backtracked
Freedom, that's the only thing I asked for. The freedom to be myself, not the reflection of a memory. I picked up Backtracked by Pedro de Alcantara because (a) he's Brazilian...
Book Review: The Skin I’m In
That's when I made up my mind. Enough is enough. I deserve better than for people to treat me any old way they want. But saying that is one thing, making it happen is...
Book Review: The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
In three very different stories, master storytellers Gene Yang and Derek Kirk Kim pit fantasy against reality, for good or for ill. Subtle, surprising, and entirely...
Book Review: The Complete Persepolis
Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half of...
Book Review: Dust Tracks on a Road
So you will have to know something about the time and place where I come from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life. Dust Tracks on a Road by...
Book Review: Tangled
Luscious, I thought. That's what I'll be. Not perfect. Not flawless. Luscious. Tangled by Carolyn Mackler is the story of four teens and what happens after they take a trip...
Book Review: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
My breasts are making me a mockery of a sham. They are like two sticky-out beacons attracting all the sadsacks in the universe. After reading two books about World War II, I...