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Book Review: Athletic Shorts
"Superman's not brave. [...] He's indestructible. You can't be brave when you're indestructible. It's guys like you and me that are brave, Angus. Guys who are different and can...
Book Review: A Crooked Kind of Perfect
I was supposed to play the piano. [...] I play the organ. A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban can be summed up in the words of the Rolling Stones: "You can't always get...
Book Review: Among the Hidden
"I am a third child! I want to be treated like everyone else!" When I did my independent study at Iowa State University, the professor book talked Margaret Peterson Haddix's...
shameless self-promotion
A review I wrote of Robinn Gourley’s Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie and Anita Silvey’s I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War appears in Purdue...
POC challenge
So since I last updated, a lot has happened. For one, I had a database crash, which means my first two reviews of the year were lost. (In summation: Everything Is Illuminated...
Favorite New Reads of 2009
So, last year I read 74 books, several of which were rereads. Here's a list of my favorite new reads of 2009, in neat little categories. Non-fiction 1-2-3 Magic: Effective...
Nostalgia: Sweet Valley Twins and Friends: The Magic Christmas
I am reading two very serious books (serious in different ways--one is an autobiography, another is just kind of hard to read), so to give myself a break on Christmas Eve, I...
Book Review: Once Was Lost
Right now I would love to have a personal message from God. I want to believe the way I used to, when my dad or mom or sometimes both would pray with me at night and I would...
Book Review: The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart
“I can’t do anything but try to stay out of trouble.” “Then how will you stay out of trouble, Ruby?” she asked me. “There must be something you can articulate.” I thought for a...