Posts Tagged ‘goodreads’

Goodreads Review: Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher My rating: 2 of 5 stars You can’t blame me for having high expectations for Jay Asher’s debut, Thirteen Reasons Why. Even if it hadn’t been hyped all over the blogosphere, its very pretty* cover tells the story of its accolades: a New York Times bestseller, a Kirkus starred [...]

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Goodreads Review: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger My rating: 3 of 5 stars Warning: this review might make me sound like an old person. I couldn’t help but read The Cat Ate My Gymsuit with a bit of wistfulness. Though the characters, voice, and situations likely still remain true to life, I suspect that [...]

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Goodreads Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King My rating: 4 of 5 stars I still can’t believe how well Stephen King does women. Or in this case, a girl. As someone only a handful of years older than Trisha McFarland, the deliciously spunky, undoubtedly strong heroine of King’s novella The Girl Who Loved [...]

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Goodreads Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See My rating: 4 of 5 stars In a brilliant bit of gender stereotyping, my husband has been heard to observe of my friendships with other women that they’re far more like romantic relationships than the friendships he has with other men. Though I bristle [...]

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Goodreads Review: Pucker

Pucker by Melanie Gideon My rating: 4 of 5 stars My mother loves many things, but two more than most: books and thrift shopping. Sometimes she combines the two, grabbing unusual hardcovers for a dollar or so from her favorite thrift store. Because she’s awesome, she sometimes mails them to me. Often wonderful, these are [...]

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Goodreads Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s difficult for me to review Carrie Ryan’s first novel, The Forest of Hands and Teeth objectively–because I can’t help but feel like there were two very different books packed into the volume’s three-hundred-some-odd pages. The first was the delicately [...]

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Goodreads Review: Paper Towns

Paper Towns by John Green My rating: 3 of 5 stars When I was seventeen, I read Fight Club for the first time and fell in love. It was one of the first truly clever books I’d ever encountered. I was a suburban kid with a mohawk who hadn’t yet been kissed, and yet Palahniuk’s [...]

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Goodreads Review: Nick and the Glimmung

Nick and the Glimmung by Philip K. Dick My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don’t like David Lynch. I know, I know. This probably makes me a bad person. (And, I know, too, that you’re probably shaking your head, asking how this could possibly be relevant to this review, but I promise you that [...]

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Goodreads Review: The White Queen

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first encountered Philippa Gregory while working in a library. I was desperate for a juicy read, and a co-worker suggested The Other Bolelyn Girl. It definitely pulled me in, and, though I loved it enough to get my mother hooked on Gregory’s [...]

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Goodreads Review: Thirteenth Child

Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede My rating: 3 of 5 stars I was a big, big fan of Patricia Wrede’s “dragons” series in middle school, though my memories of those books are vague. I remembered them fondly–as slim, plot-driven, funny, and somewhat feminist tales–so I was eager to revisit her writing in Thirteenth Child. [...]

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