Posts Tagged ‘review’
Goodreads Review: Thirteen Reasons Why
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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 [...]
Tags: after school special, contemporary, goodreads, review, ya
Goodreads Review: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
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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 [...]
Tags: goodreads, kiddie lit, review
Goodreads Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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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 [...]
Tags: feminist, goodreads, horror, novella, review, survivalist, thriller, ya
Goodreads Review: Breaking Dawn
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Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer My rating: 1 of 5 stars Ho boy. So I mildly enjoyed the first two books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series–enough that I considered myself somewhat of a Twilight apologist. No, no, I tried to convince the naysayers, she’s really not all bad! Though I found Twilight and New Moon [...]
Tags: fantasy, horror, review, romance, terrible, ya
Goodreads Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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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 [...]
Tags: adult, chick-lit, feminism, friendship, goodreads, historical, novel, review
Goodreads Review: Pucker
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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 [...]
Tags: fantasy, goodreads, review, ya
Goodreads Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
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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 [...]
Tags: goodreads, horror, review, romance, ya
Goodreads Review: Paper Towns
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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 [...]
Tags: clever, goodreads, review, ya
Why I Won’t Quit Worrying and Love the Golden-Vagina Stream: The Anti-Science Argument of ABC’s LOST
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Three days after the LOST finale, the smoke is beginning to clear. My own rage over the direction that the finale took us is starting to subside. While I could focus on the bits that made me most angry initially—the hackneyed, soft-focus reunions that weren’t true to some of the characters (Shannon and Sayid? Really?); [...]
Tags: babbling, essay, faith, lost, rant, review, science, television
Goodreads Review: Nick and the Glimmung
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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 [...]
Tags: children's lit, goodreads, review, scifi, ya
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