A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
Sentence Summary: Since she was a little girl, Claire Voyante has had dreams that have connections to her real life. Will Claire learn to use these dreams in time to help protect a new friend while trying to find her place in a totally new school?
One Sentence Review: Claire is a sweet narrator you can’t help but root for and want to know more about, even though the plot sometimes feels confused and the minor characters sometimes slip into the background.
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I’ve been on the waiting list for Catching Fire, the second book in Suzanne Collins Hunger Games series, for like six months now. I went to the library yesterday to pick up another book and discovered the book finally came for me! Yay! So instead of working on a paper while I babysat last night, [...]
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Title: The Truth About Forever Author: Sarah Dessen Genre: YA Fiction Summary: Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen has a dull summer ahead of her — her boyfriend as at camp and she’s working at the library and studying for the SAT. Macy is also dealing with her father’s recent, unexpected death, as is her mother. A few [...]
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Over Memorial Day, I spent some time reading books have been being reviewed all over the blogosphere: The Book Thief and The Hunger Games. If you’ve never heard of these two books, you’re either living under a rock or spend too much time hitting “Mark all as read” in your Google Reader Because they’ve been [...]
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I feel like I’ve acquired a ton of new books this week. Over the last few weeks I requested a lot of things from the library — the books on my shelves just haven’t been inspiring me. I’m on long wait lists for a few of them, but I guess the others were all in [...]
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