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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Sherman Alexie

Tags: shortstories american-indian pacnw

2006-01-04

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Philip Pullman

Tags: fantasy jfiction

Description: This book is awesome. It's usually compared to Harry Potter, but it completely blows HarryThis book is awesome. It's usually compared to Harry Potter, but it completely blows Harry out of the water. ...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Authors: Nicholas Sparks Micah Sparks

Tags: biography travel brothers

Description: I'm not really a fan of anything Nicholas Sparks has written, but I really liked most ofI'm not really a fan of anything Nicholas Sparks has written, but I really liked most of this book. People criticize his description of the trip they took because it's cliche and boring and he and his brother are obnoxious, but that's what I loved about it. They're visiting these old ruins and being giant idiots about it. And then he told a bunch of mostly interesting stories about his family and growing up with his brother and sister. Plus, he's super-hot. ...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Jim Grimsley

Tags: gay christmas

Description: I loved this book so much. It was like really, really good epic slash, only possibly with moreI loved this book so much. It was like really, really good epic slash, only possibly with more angst and original characters. ...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: S. E. Hinton

Tags: vampires friendship

Description: Definitely not The Outsiders. I think I would have liked it better if the bond between theDefinitely not The Outsiders. I think I would have liked it better if the bond between the guys hadn't been illustrated through the entire vampire thing. It was overkill, and kind of stupid. But, there were still some really good moments between Kell and Jamie, and even between Jamie and the vampire dude. You have to read through a lot of blah to get to them though. ...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Steve Kluger

Tags: baseball friendship brothers

Description: Epistolatory saga exploring a surrogate father/son relationship. It's funny and sad andEpistolatory saga exploring a surrogate father/son relationship. It's funny and sad and any time a boy receives personal letters from the Roosevelt's press secretary it can't be a bad story, right?...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Dan Brown

Tags: bestsellers

Description: Everyone made such a big freaking deal over this book. I'd like to be able to say it wasEveryone made such a big freaking deal over this book. I'd like to be able to say it was awful and the world has terrible taste in reading material, but actually, I rather enjoyed reading it. I didn't think it was brilliant or mindblowing or anything, but the majority of it was fun. I wouldn't take a single thing he says in there at face value, no matter how carefully researched he claims it was, and I find it a little amusing that these theories he portrays as being obviously accepted by academics in the novel are in fact not widely accepted by academics at all in real life, but hey, it made for a good conspiracy.

Good god, the characters though. They weren't just stereotypical and uninteresting, they were also stupid. ...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Avi

Tags: jfiction

Description: One of the best last lines I've ever seen in J fiction

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Tags: yafiction brothers

Description: Lester has moved out, and therefore isn't around as much, so naturally I had a hard timeLester has moved out, and therefore isn't around as much, so naturally I had a hard time getting into it, but it was okay. Better than the last Alice book, not as good as the first few. ...

2006-01-03

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Mark Dunn

Description: I tried to read Ella Minnow Pea, because it was an interesting concept -- this self-governingI tried to read Ella Minnow Pea, because it was an interesting concept -- this self-governing island is named after and has a statue to Nevin Nollop, who wrote the phrase "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." And as each letter falls off the statue, they ban anyone from using that letter, or even substituting * for those letters. It sounded like a fun concept, but sadly that's all it was, because it was impossible to keep the characters straight, never mind that they were super boring and not very developed in the first place, which probably explains why I couldn't tell them apart, and while I don't mind having to occasionally look up a word if I don't know what it means, needing to look up three words on the same page is so overkill. So, I gave up on it fifty pages into it, and now have one less book on my shelf to read. ...

2006-01-03