Category: Good Reads
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Book Report: Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
Shakespeare: the World as Stage by Bill Bryson Released: November 2007 Publisher: Harper Collins Add to Goodreads ★★★★☆ Synopsis: At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series. The author of ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’ isn’t, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, a…
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Book Report: Shelby and Shauna Kitt and the Dimensional Holes by P.H.C. Marchesi
Shelby and Shauna Kitt and the Dimensional Holes Released: March 2011 Publisher: Createspace Add to Goodreads ★★★☆☆ Synopsis: Shelby Kitt never gets lost. Shauna, his sister, never gets sick. As far as most people are concerned, the inseparable Kitt twins are odd 13-year-olds. No one, however – not even Shelby and Shauna – can guess…
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Book Report: 13 Days to Midnight by Patrick Carman
13 Days to Midnight Released: April 2010 Publisher: Little, Brown Books Add to Goodreads ★★★☆☆ Synopsis: You are indestructible. Three whispered words transfer an astonishing power to Jacob Fielding that changes everything. At first, Jacob is hesitant to use the power, unsure of its implications. But there’s something addictive about testing the limits of fear.…
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Book Report: Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel
Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel Released: October 2011 Publisher: Del Ray Add to Goodreads ★★★★☆ Synopsis: The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s…
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Book Report: Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Hollowland by Amanda Hocking (The Hollows #1) Released: October 2010 Publisher: Self Published Add to Goodreads ★★★☆☆ Synopsis: “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of…
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Book Report: Wings by Aprilynn Pike
Wings by Aprilynne Pike (Laurel #1) Released: May 2009 Publisher: Harper Teen Add to Goodreads ★★★☆☆ Synopsis: Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost…
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Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
I’ve put off writing this review for so long because I haven’t figured out what to say about this book. Still. Really! I went into Never Knowing prepared to dislike it. It’s not my preferred genre, and on top of that I started reading this book at work; these days, work turns me into such a curmudgeon. But, about…
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The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
Let me be honest here. The reason why I picked up this book in the first place is that the book is about Nicholas Flamel, and Nicholas Flamel is mentioned in the first Harry Potter book. Does anyone else pick out books like that? Silly reasons aside, I enjoyed this book! The story is about…
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The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
I started reading The Fairytale Detectives on a particularly rainy day while sipping on a mug of hot Earl Grey tea. By the first few pages and the first crack of thunder from outside, I was sucked into the book. I only wish I could mean that literally. Ferryport Landing may seem like just a quaint New…
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By Golly, Ollie! 