tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84631965198251159112024-03-05T00:31:12.012-08:00Tales and TreatsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-88483038094033074032013-01-24T14:38:00.003-08:002013-01-24T14:39:23.539-08:00Libraries in the digital age studyThe importance of libraries in the digital age has been a hotly debated topic in recent years. Many people think that with all the digital technology available, libraries are not needed as much as they used to be. My husband, a computer programmer, always tells me that Google is going to replace librarians. As a librarian, I totally disagree with this, and I think that libraries are more important than ever. A new study from <a href="http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2013/01/22/Library-services/">PewInternet</a> (study found from this <a href="http://www.impatientoptimists.org/en/Posts/2013/01/Possibly-the-One-Thing-Almost-All-Americans-Agree-On-Libraries-in-the-Digital-Age">article</a> from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) found the following:<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">I am not at all surprised by those statistics, but some people (including my husband) might be. Is there any other public service that 91% of Americans can agree on? I certainly can't think of anything. I am also not surprised by these stats:</span></span></div>
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<li><b>22% say that they know all or most of the services their libraries offer now. </b></li>
<li><b>46% say they know some of what their libraries offer </b></li>
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Today's libraries, especially larger city library systems, offer so many different programs and services. The study has some other good suggestions on how to improve library services and things that they can implement. The first step is to make the community known what their library can do for them.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> Despite the fact that Americans think the library is important, the study found that only 53% visited a library in the past year. I think part of this has to do with library anxiety. As the stats above state, people don't know what libraries can offer them, and they are afraid to go ask if they need help. Even as a librarian, I have experienced some library anxiety. I need to print out my resume, but I don't have a printer at home. I know I can go to the library and do it, but I haven't because I don't know how the system works to get on the computers and print something. My local library is the central branch of a large city system, and it can be overwhelming because it is so large. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Overall, I think this study shows that libraries are still relevant, and more importantly, are still important to the community. What we as librarians need to keep doing is to figure out how to get more people in the library and to let them know what services we can offer them.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-68281237052235342282013-01-17T19:08:00.001-08:002013-01-17T19:11:50.040-08:00Massive Open Online CoursesThe University of Washington has recently joined several other universities in offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019981349_coursera25m.html">Here</a> is an article that talks about them. The classes they are offering are available through Coursera, but there are several other such sites that offer classes from universities such as Harvard and MIT. The above linked article talks about the benefits and disadvantages of MOOCs. They do cost the university money, and though UW has offered the same classes for credit, not many people are taking advantage of it (and paying the fees). Thus, the university loses money by giving the MOOCs for free. This could become a problem if the university continues to offer several classes and do not get many people to pay for them. I do think MOOCs are a good idea, and they allow people to learn new skills they otherwise would not have been able to. I have been thinking lately about taking an MOOC to learn computer programming or other skills. I have been looking for work for about 6 months, since I graduated with my MLIS, and I figured learning some of these skills may help me in my search. I am currently enrolled in a beginner computer programming class through MIT on <a href="http://www.edx.org/">edX</a>. It starts on February 4, and I will review the class once I have started it. <br />
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What do you think of MOOCs? Do you think they are sustainable for universities, or how could they become so? Have you ever taken one?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-10866935964788357022013-01-14T19:21:00.000-08:002013-01-17T19:11:50.038-08:00Bookless public library to open in TexasA county in Texas is opening the first <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/13/3872478/americas-first-bookless-public-library-will-look-like-an-apple-store">bookless public library</a>. <br /> I think this is kind of a ridiculous idea. Can it really be called a library if there are no books? Sure it will have digital books, but you can get those anywhere. You can tell that it isn't a librarian that thought up this idea. The person who thought up the idea probably thinks that libraries are obsolete and is trying too hard to make them remain relevant. Librarians and the millions of patrons who visit libraries know that libraries are not obsolete. As many commenters point out, why is there a need for a special building reserved just for computers? The article does not say if they plan on loaning out e-readers, but that is one of the only ways I could see that this "library" would actually work out. If there are no e-readers, it is essentially a glorified internet cafe. Sure, people who do own e-readers could go and use the computers to download ebooks, but they could also do that at home. Though I do own a few e-readers and use them quite often, I still prefer real books, and would probably never go to an all digital library. There is just something about wandering through the aisles of books and picking up whatever catches your eye. You can't really do that with e-books. Also, an all digital library would probably be more expensive in the long run that a regular library. When you buy a hard copy of a book, it can be lent out multiple times, but with an ebook it is different. Depending on the publisher, an ebook can only be lent a handful of times before the library has to purchase another one. I think there is a reason why projects like this in the past have failed to even open.<br />
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What do you think about this? Would you visit an all digital library?<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-58886509955776601262013-01-13T00:31:00.001-08:002013-01-17T19:28:17.942-08:00Books read in 2012<b id="internal-source-marker_0.018889440689235926" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Saving June</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. These things hidden</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Forgotten</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. The Way we fall</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. The secret holocaust diaries</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. The sweetest thing</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. The bad beginning</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. In the garden of beasts</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. Moon over manifest</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. Matched</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11. The house at riverton</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12. Bridge to terabithia</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. Will grayson, will grayson</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14. A walk across the sun</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15. The Paris Wife</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16. Glow</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17. Leisl and Po</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18. City of falling angels</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19. An uncommon reader</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20. Wilderness tips</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21. Shatter Me</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">22. When you’re engulfed in flames</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23. Bossypants</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24. Bright young things</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">25. Dearly departed</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">26. Eve</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">27. Guardian of the gate</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28. The virgin of small plains</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">29. Double</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30. Graveminder</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">31. Circle of fire</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32. Fever</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">33. Life as I blow it</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">34. The girl who couldn’t say no</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">35. The Secret society</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">36. Someone like you</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">37. Julie of the wolves</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38. All these things I’ve done</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">39. Touch of power</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">40. Cat’s eye</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">41. Your voice in my head</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42. Pandemonium</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">43. And me among them</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">44. When she woke</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">45. The dressmaker</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">46. We the animals</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">47. City of glass</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">48. City of Fallen angels</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">49. Garden of shadows</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">50. Dry</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">51. Devoted</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">52. Wonderstruck</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">53. Look me in the eye</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">54. The library at night</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">55. Elsewhere</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">56. The little friend</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">57. Left neglected</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">58. The future of us</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">59. Red glove</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60. New girl</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">61. Replication</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">62. Are you there vodka? It’s me chelsea</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">63. The long journey home</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">64. Silver sparrow</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">65. F my life</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">66. Chasing Aphrodite</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">67. Graceling</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">68. A long long sleep</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">69. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">70. Secret daughter</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">71. Safe house</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">72. The fault in our stars</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">73. Sanctuary</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">74. Surfacing</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">75. The Kid</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">76. Entwined</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">77. The birth house</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">78. The girls guide to homelessness</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">79. Envy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">80. Truth</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">81. The wild things</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">82. Insurgent</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">83. House of the tiger king</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">84. Gone</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">85. The everafter</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">86. The virgin cure</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">87. The scorch trials</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">88. Black beauty</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">89. Keep sweet</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">90. The death cure</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">91. Black heart</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">92. The case for books</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">93. Heist society</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">94. The maid and the queen</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">95. For one more day</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">96. State of wonder</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">97. Confessions of Nat Turner</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">98. Church of lies</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">99. Crossed</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">100. Fire</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">101. Deadlocked</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">102. The marriage plot</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">103. Secret lives of saints</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">104. Ready player one</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">105. Hunger</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">106. The hangman’s daughter</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">107. Spider bones </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">108. Twenties girl </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">109. Between, Georgia</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">110. Hitler’s willing executioners</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">111. The last testament</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">112. Nineteen minutes</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">113. Take a bow</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">114. Hourglass</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">115. Tuck everlasting</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">116. Jeneration X</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">117. Cage of stars</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">118. Discovery of witches</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">119. Rape girl</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">120. What alice forgot</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">121. Hanging by a thread</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">122. Thumped</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">123. The little woods</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">124. Slide</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">125. Pulp friction</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">126. Someone else’s life</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">127. The lover’s dictionary</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">128. Carrier of the mark</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">129. Information tomorrow</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">130. One breath away</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">131. Gilt</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">132. my life in black and white</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">133. Information architecture for the world wide web </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">134. Timepiece</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">135. Fracture</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">136. A small town near Auschwitz</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">137. Vegan virgin valentine</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">138. The nightworld</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">139. Sweet valley confidential</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">140. Between</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">141. Persepolis</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">142. Persepolis 2</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">143. Stay</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">144. Glitch</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">145. 22 Brittania Road</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">146. The girl who was on fire</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">147. Cold kiss</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">148. Shift</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">149. The goddess test</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">150. Legacy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">151. Once</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">152. Nick and Norah’s Infinite playlist</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">153. The mark</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">154. Size 12 is not fat</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">155. Girl, stolen</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">156. The thirteen</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">157. Allegiance</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">158. The read aloud handbook</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">159. Past midnight</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">160. Stolen innocence</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">161. The vision</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">162. The unit</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">161. The pledge</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">162. The boy in the suitcase</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">163. The family fang</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">164. Beta</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">165. The fox inheritance</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">166. Rosebush</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">167. Dark parties</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">168. Secrets and wives</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">169. The second empress</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">170. Everlost</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">171. Ashes, Ashes</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">172. Changeling </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">173. The darkest minds</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">174. 172 hours on the moon</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">175. The secret year</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">176. Ashfall</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">177. The time keeper</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">178. Evernight</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">179. One moment</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">180. The confessions of the Sullivan sisters</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">181. Blood zero sky</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">182. Mothership</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">183. Dark companion</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">184. Stargirl</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">185. Is everybody hanging out without me?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">186. Pushing the limits</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">187. Still waters</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">188. Leviathan</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">189. Pushing the limits</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">190. Alanna The first adventure</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">191. 20 boy summer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">192. Legacy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">193. The hunt</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">194. Dark eden</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">195. The chimps of fauna sanctuary</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">196. Throne of glass</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">197. Princess diaries</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">198. This wicked endeavor</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">199. The power of reading</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">200. Anna and the french kiss</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">201. Hush, hush</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">202. Underworld</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">203. Beautiful lies</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">204. A touch of dead</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">205. The sookie stackhouse companion</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">206. Homer’s odyssey</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">207. Revived</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">208. Before you go</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">209. The last jew of treblinka</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">210. The flight of gemma hardy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">211. It’s kind of a funny story</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">212. Where’d you go, Bernadette?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">213. Treasure island</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">214. Ru</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">215. Something wicked this way comes</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">216. Cleopatra confesses</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">217. The forsaken</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">218. The waters and the wild</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">219. The maid</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">220. One hundred candles</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">221. Ashen winter</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">222. Such wicked intent</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">223. Legend</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">224. 13 little blue envelopes</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">225. What she left behind</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">226. What I didn’t say</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">227. Glass heart</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">228. Wonder</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">229. The lost code</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">230. Frozen</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">231. Through to you</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">232. The waiting sky</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">233. Beyond the grave</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">234. I hunt killers</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">235. The hermitage house miracle</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">236. Fair coin</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">237. The twisted window</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">238. Prophet’s prey</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">239. Unraveling</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">240. Close your eyes</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">241. Favorite wife</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">242. Howl’s moving castle</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">243. The summoning</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">244. A spy in the house</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">245. Skinny</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">246. The kill order</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">247. The first day on earth</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">248. The boyfriend list</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">249. Waterfall</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">250. The other life</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">251. Cate of the lost colony</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">252. City of lost souls</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">253. Goddess of yesterday</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">254. Winning by losing</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">255. Dash and Lily’s book of dares</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">256. Cleopatra Ascending</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">257. Making the cut</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">258. Master your metabolism</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">259. A wizard of earthsea</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">260. Amber house</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">261. Hamburgers and hotdogs</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">262. Grey horses</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">263. Second thoughts</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">264. Dr. Horrible and other horrible stories</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">265. Dearly beloved</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">266. The bar code tattoo</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">267. Fluffy</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">268. America Again</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">269. How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">270. Anne Frank the graphic novel</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">271. Aya of Yop City</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">272. Ten</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">273. Philosophy: a discovery in comics</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">274. The amulet of Samarkand</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">275. Dark eden: eve of destruction</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">276. Broken</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">277. Broken Harbor</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">278. Chopsticks</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">279. Blankets</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">280. Habibi</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">281. The alternate day diet</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">282. Uncommon criminals</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">283. The goose girl</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">284. A ring of endless light</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">285. Moms cancer</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">286. Eleanor and park</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">286. Gone girl</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">287. Before I go to sleep</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">288. Seriously... I’m kidding</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">289. Shadowhunters and downworlders</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">290. Sita’s Ramayana</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">291. The curious case of Benjamin Button</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">292. The sixsmiths</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">293. Soulless</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">294. Ex-mas</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">295. The hobbit graphic novel</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">296. Cascade</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">297. Chasers</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">298. Elemental</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">299. A wrinkle in time graphic novel</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">300. Hark, a vagrant!</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-88086692110810749592013-01-13T00:21:00.003-08:002013-01-13T00:21:38.768-08:00A New StartIt's been a long time (almost a year) since I have posted here. I stopped initially because I got burned out on blogging for a while. After a few months, I got super busy and distracted. The last year has been a big year of change for me. In May I graduated from graduated school with my master's in library science. In July, my husband got an amazing job and we moved to Seattle. At the end of July I decided I was unhealthy and unhappy with the way I looked, so I started exercising and eating better. I have also started running and become addicted. In December I finished my first 5k race, and I have registered for a 15k in March. My goal right now is to finish the Disneyland 1/2 Marathon at the end of August.<br />
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Anyway, the point of this post is to say that I'm coming back to blogging. Going forward this blog will focus on books I read (mostly YA) and my thoughts on library issues and news. I will probably throw in some workout/healthy eating stuff from time to time. I'm excited to start a new chapter on my blog and I hope you will join me!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-57327210352143933822012-02-11T11:54:00.000-08:002012-02-11T11:54:00.187-08:00Review: The Sweetest Thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/24197/images/sweetest_thing_catalog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/24197/images/sweetest_thing_catalog.jpg" /></a></div>Title: The Sweetest Thing<br />
Author: Christina Mandelski<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
Rating: 4 stars<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
In the world of Sheridan Wells, life is perfect when she's decorating a cake. Unfortunately, everything else is a complete mess: her mom ran off years ago, her dad is more interested in his restaurant, and the idea of a boyfriend is laughable. <br />
But Sheridan is convinced finding her mom will solve all her problems-only her dad's about to get a cooking show in New York, which means her dream of a perfect family will be dashed. <br />
Using just the right amount of romance, family drama, and cute boys, <em>The Sweetest Thing</em> will entice fans with its perfect mixture of girl-friendly ingredients.<br />
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<b>My review:</b><br />
I really enjoyed this book. It was a light and fluffy, fast read. It was well written, the characters were well formed and likable, and it wasn't too serious. Parts of it were predictable, but overall, it was very good.<br />
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<i>I received an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.</i><b> </b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-69349420219019170382012-02-10T11:23:00.000-08:002012-02-10T11:23:00.668-08:00Review: Enter, Night<b>Title:</b> Enter, Night<br />
<b>Author: </b>Michael Rowe<br />
<b>Source: </b>Netgalley<br />
<b>Rating:</b>4/5<br />
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<u>Synopsis from Amazon:</u><br />
The year is 1972. Widowed Christina Parr, her daughter Morgan, and her brother-in-law Jeremy have returned to the remote northern Ontario mining town of Parr''s Landing, the place from which Christina fled before Morgan was born, seeking refuge. Dr. Billy Lightning has also returned in search of answers to the mystery of his father's brutal murder. All will find some part of what they seek-and more. Built on the site of a decimated 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr''s Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers there, calling out to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging for release-an invitation that has finally been answered. One man is following that voice, cutting a swath of violence across the country, bent on a terrible resurrection of the ancient evil, plunging the town and all its people into an endless night. "Enter, Night is so rich and assured it''s hard to believe it''s Michael Rowe''s first novel. In its propulsive depictions of deeply sympathetic characters converging on a small town in the grip of gathering horrors, it skillfully brings to mind the classic works of Stephen King and Robert McCammon. But the novel''s breathtaking, wholly unexpected and surprisingly moving conclusion heralds the arrival of a major new talent. Michael Rowe is now on my must-read list.<br />
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<u>My review:</u><br />
I am not a fan of scary stories at all. I thought this book sounded really good and interesting, so I requested it. It did not disappoint. It was not scary really, more just kind of creepy. However, I did avoid reading it at night. The book was well written. I had a little bit of trouble following the storyline when it changed narrators and the year, but it was fine after you got to know the characters. I wish the author had went a little bit more in depth about the "before" story and those characters. I definitely recommend this book, even if you don't like scary or "creepy" books.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-80356861670502875892012-02-09T11:36:00.000-08:002012-02-09T11:36:00.138-08:00Review: Knits for Nerds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/8853/images/knits.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/8853/images/knits.jpg" /></a></div> Title: Knits for Nerds<br />
Author: Joan of Dark<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
Rating: 5 stars!!<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b> <br />
The best of science fiction, manga, and animaguiri meets knit one, purl two as knit siren and part-time roller derby girl Joan of Dark offers up an out-of-this-world assortment of knitting nerdiness inside <span class="booktitle">Knits for Nerds</span>. The patterns for 30 iconic clothing and accessory items inspired by popular TV shows, books, films, comics, and more—including <em>Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars</em>, and <em>Firefly</em>—are presented alongside full-color photographs showcasing completed projects, such as: <br />
<ul><li> Lieutenant Uhura's sexy <em>Star Trek</em> minidress</li>
<li> Hobbit feet slippers</li>
<li> <em>Firefly</em>-inspired scarf, socks, hat, and jacket</li>
<li> <em>Tank Girl</em> socks</li>
<li> Hermione Granger's secret beaded bag</li>
<li> Manga-inspired leg warmers</li>
<li> <em>The Big Bang Theory</em>-inspired his and hers sweater-vests</li>
<li> <em>Lord of the Rings</em>-inspired shrug</li>
</ul>In addition to a wardrobe of costume finery, hobbyists will also find instructions for practical projects such as an e-reader cover or a laptop bag crafted of checkered fabric that serves double-duty as a chessboard and carryall, as well as patterns for plush toys inspired by <em>Star Trek</em>, robots, and the comic book <em>Squee!</em> Wear (and knit!) your nerdiness on your sleeve with <span class="booktitle">Knits for Nerds</span>.<br />
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<b>My review:</b><br />
I (and my husband) are nerds. So I was really excited when I saw this book on Netgalley and requested it right away. There are so many things in here I want to make right away. My favorite is probably the Hobbit socks. My husband wanted me to make lots of things in here, especially the Star Trek mini dress. I haven't actually knitted anything out of it yet, but all of the patterns and items look well done.<b> </b> <br />
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<i>I received an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. </i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-44638393539602253712012-02-08T11:18:00.000-08:002012-02-08T11:18:00.507-08:00Review: The Way we fall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/20106/images/waywefall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/20106/images/waywefall.jpg" /></a></div>Title: The Way we fall<br />
Author: Megan Crewe<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
Rating: 3 1/2 star<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
When a deadly virus begins to sweep through sixteen-year-old Kaelyn's community, the government quarantines her island-no one can leave, and no one can come back.<br />
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Those still healthy must fight for dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. As everything familiar comes crashing down, Kaelyn joins forces with a former rival and discovers a new love in the midst of heartbreak. When the virus starts to rob her of friends and family, she clings to the belief that there must be a way to save the people she holds dearest. <br />
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Because how will she go on if there isn't?<br />
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<b>My review:</b><br />
I was really excited to read this book because it sounded exactly like something I would love. However, I found that I was a little disappointed. For me, it was just kind of "eh". It was well written and I liked the characters, but I felt like the action never really picked up much. I just kept waiting for something to happen. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. <b> </b> <br />
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<i>I received an electronic copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. </i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-41237756851904308822012-02-07T11:27:00.000-08:002012-02-07T11:27:00.305-08:00Review: You are my only<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/24197/images/youaremyonly_final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/24197/images/youaremyonly_final.jpg" /></a></div>Title: You are my only<br />
Author: Beth Kephart<br />
Source: Netgalley<br />
Rating: 3 stars<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
Emmy Rane was married at nineteen and a mother by twenty. Trapped in a life with an abusive husband, Baby was her only joy. Until one day in September, when Emmy walked the sixty-three steps from the backyard to the upstairs closet, and returned to find Baby missing. All that was left behind was a yellow sock, which Emmy clings to as she's institutionalized for what she calls grief and others call mental instability.<br />
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In another town, fourteen years later, Sophie is a teenage girl living a reclusive life with her overbearing mother. They move from place to place with almost no notice, always outrunning the No Good. One afternoon, Sophie ventures outside and meets Joey and his two aunts. Their unconventional family opens up Sophie's eyes, giving her the courage to look into her past. And what she discovers changes her world forever. . .<br />
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The alternating narratives of Emmy and Sophie tell haunting tales of loss and freedom that complement one another, though set a decade and a half apart. <br />
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<b>My review:</b><br />
This book was decent but forgettable. Most of the plot was expected, and there was nothing new. It was well written and the characters were well developed. It was good enough that I wanted to keep reading, but I was disappointed overall.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. These things hidden</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Forgotten</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. THe Way we fall</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. The secret holocaust diaries- Nonna Bannister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. The sweetest thing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. The bad beginning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. In the garden of beasts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Moon over manifest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Matched</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. The house at riverton</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Bridge to terabithia</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Will grayson, will grayson</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. A walk across the sun</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15. The Paris Wife</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. Glow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17. Leisl and Po</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18. City of falling angels</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19. An uncommon reader</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20. Wilderness tips</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-33563827401168170512011-12-24T12:46:00.000-08:002011-12-24T12:46:20.309-08:00Best Books of the YearProphecy of the Sisters- Michelle Zink<br />
Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood<br />
Stiff- Mary Roach<br />
Running the Books- Avi Steinberg<br />
Firefly Lane- Kristin Hannah<br />
Backseat Saints- Joshilyn Jackson<br />
Of Bees and Mist- <span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Erick Setiawan</span><br />
Madame Tussaud- Michelle Moran<br />
Still Alice- Lisa Genova<br />
Divergent- Veronica Roth<br />
Delirium- Lauren Oliver<br />
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children- Ransom Riggs<br />
Girl in Translation- Jean Kwok<br />
Forest of Hands and Teeth- Carrie Ryan<br />
If I Stay/Where She Went- Gayle Forman<br />
White Oleander- Janet Fitch<br />
The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern<br />
The Story of Beautiful Girl- Rachel Simon<br />
The Distant Hours- Kate Morton<br />
The Lost Hours- Karen WhiteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-54972706082129851852011-12-21T11:14:00.000-08:002011-12-21T11:14:00.651-08:00Review: Lady of the Rivers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61t8OXD1sHL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61t8OXD1sHL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<b>Title: </b>Lady of the Rivers <br />
<b>Author: </b>Philippa Gregory<br />
<b>Source: </b>Netgalley<br />
<b>Rating: </b>4/5<br />
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<u>Synopsis from Amazon:</u><br />
Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the wheel of fortune before Joan is taken to a horrific death at the hands of the English rulers of France. Jacquetta understands the danger for a woman who dares to dream. <br />
Jacquetta is married to the Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, and he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. Her only friend in the great household is the duke’s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the duke’s death leaves her a wealthy young widow. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen. <br />
The Woodvilles soon achieve a place at the very heart of the Lancaster court, though Jacquetta can sense the growing threat from the people of England and the danger of royal rivals. Not even their courage and loyalty can keep the House of Lancaster on the throne. Henry the king slides into a mysterious sleep; Margaret the queen turns to untrustworthy favorites for help; and Richard, Duke of York, threatens to overturn the whole kingdom for his rival dynasty. <br />
Jacquetta fights for her king, her queen, and for her daughter Elizabeth for whom Jacquetta can sense an extraordinary and unexpected future: a change of fortune, the throne of England, and the white rose of York. <br />
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<u>My review:</u><br />
I have read most of Philippa Gregory's books and have loved them all. However, after a while, they all seem to be very similar. Lady of the Rivers was a typical Philippa Gregory book. It was good and I really enjoyed it, but wasn't anything groundbreaking or new. There was one thing that bugged me about this book: it repeated A LOT. There were quite a few instances where she described something, and then in the next paragraph, described it again in slightly different wording. Despite this, I really enjoyed the book and will continue to read her work.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-64309202885796365412011-12-18T09:40:00.000-08:002011-12-18T09:40:32.248-08:00Montreal bloggers meet up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0Nun-1U24KiF1hjtKL8ABMdE6Q7fBseebiLlC4aDFzmPJNSki7dAYhARkUJveCUJwdrwEpJgvpF7SMPzBjudQRod_c1L7PZLUa0_dk84nKHTWXq1XxvtEyaMK1GP9CMtS0L1bU9gUaWs/s400/385979_303722162992992_100000656312311_1019202_2017560876_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0Nun-1U24KiF1hjtKL8ABMdE6Q7fBseebiLlC4aDFzmPJNSki7dAYhARkUJveCUJwdrwEpJgvpF7SMPzBjudQRod_c1L7PZLUa0_dk84nKHTWXq1XxvtEyaMK1GP9CMtS0L1bU9gUaWs/s320/385979_303722162992992_100000656312311_1019202_2017560876_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #141414; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"><div style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Left Side (Left to Right): </b></span><br />
Me, Natalia at <a href="http://dazzlingreads.blogspot.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">Dazzling Reads</a>, Ilana at <a href="http://fromsmilerwithlove.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">From Smiler, With Love</a>, Avis at <a href="http://shereadsandreads.blogspot.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">She Reads and Reads</a>, & Tina at <a href="http://bookshipper.blogspot.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">Bookshipper</a>.</div><div style="color: #ead1dc;"><br />
<div style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Right Side (Right to Left): </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Emilie at <a href="http://abeautifulmadness.blogspot.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">A Beautiful Madness</a>, </span>Tynga at <a href="http://tyngasreviews.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">Tynga's Reviews</a>, Lucy at <a href="http://moonlightgleam.blogspot.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">Moonlight Gleam's Bookshelf</a>, Cindy at <a href="http://cindysloveofbooks.blogspot.com/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">Cindy's Love of Books</a>, & Cat at <a href="http://www.beyondbooks.ca/" style="color: #64a3cc; text-decoration: none;">Beyond Books.</a></div></div></span></div><div><br />
</div>Last weekend I met up with a group of other bloggers from Montreal. As usual I had a great time talking about books and lots of other stuff. We also exchanged books. Here is what I got:<div><br />
</div><div>How to Deal- Sarah Dessen</div><div>All American Girl- Meg Cabot</div><div>How to be popular- Meg Cabot</div><div>Jinx- Meg Cabot</div><div>Glow- Amy Kathleen Ryan</div><div>Where she went- Gayle Forman</div><div>Fever- Lauren DeStefano</div><div>Devoted- Hilary Duff</div><div>The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins</div><div> <div><br />
</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-72671896456546059482011-11-02T12:23:00.000-07:002011-11-02T12:23:37.025-07:00October Wrap UpI can't believe it's already November! I heard Christmas music yesterday. I think that it's way too early to start with Christmas stuff.<br />
Here is what I read in October.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">152. A place not home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">153. Girl in translation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">154. Sea glass 10/7</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">155. The forest of hands and teeth </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">156. Lady of the rivers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">157. A thousand lives</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">158. The maze runner</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">159. The red pony </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">160. The city of ember</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">161. Coraline</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">162. Enter night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">163. You are my only</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">164. Bright lights, big ass</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">165. Spyglass</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">166. What i thought I knew</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">167. Miss Hildreth wore brown</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">168. City of bones</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">169. Dawn<br class="kix-line-break" />170. The accident</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">171. Black Orchid</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">172. The Meowmorphosis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">173. If I Stay</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">174. The dead tossed waves </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">175. Creep </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I read a lot of fantastic books this month. My favorites were The Forest of hands and teeth and Girl in Translation. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-5685944372265194862011-10-25T16:24:00.000-07:002011-11-02T12:20:52.986-07:00Bout of Books read a thon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://onabookbender.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/boutofbooks3.jpg?w=300&h=187" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://onabookbender.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/boutofbooks3.jpg?w=300&h=187" /></a></div>Bout of Books is a week long read a thon hosted by Amanda at <a href="http://onabookbender.com/">On a Book Bender</a>. <br />
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<b>My goals:</b><br />
1. Read 2 hours a day<br />
2. Finish at least 5 books<br />
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<b>Books:</b><br />
Dawn- Elie Wiesel<br />
The Accident- Elie Wiesel<br />
City of Bones<br />
The Dead tossed waves- Carrie Ryan<br />
The Magic of Finkleton- KC Hilton<br />
If I Stay- Gayle Forman<br />
The Meowmorphosis-<br />
Memories of My melancholy whores- Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />
Black Orchid- Neil Gaiman<br />
The Sandman Endless Nights- Neil Gaiman<br />
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<div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>10/24</b><br />
Number of books I’ve read today: 1/2<br />
Total number of books I’ve read: 1/2<br />
<b>Today #insixwords: </b><br />
Books: Dawn; </div><div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>10/25</b><br />
Number of books I’ve read today: 1 1/2<br />
Total number of books I’ve read: 2<br />
<b>Today #insixwords:</b><br />
Books: Dawn; The Accident</div><div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>10/26</b><br />
Number of books I’ve read today: 1<br />
Total number of books I’ve read: 3<br />
<b>Today #insixwords: </b><br />
Books: Black Orchid</div><div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>10/27</b><br />
Number of books I’ve read today: 1<br />
Total number of books I’ve read: 4<br />
<b>Today #insixwords: </b><br />
Books: The Meowmorphosis</div><div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>10/28</b><br />
Number of books I’ve read today: 1<br />
Total number of books I’ve read: 5<br />
<b>Today #insixwords: </b><br />
Books: If I Stay</div><div style="font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"><b>10/29</b><br />
Number of books I’ve read today: 1<br />
Total number of books I’ve read: 6<br />
<b>Today #insixwords:</b><br />
Books: The Dead Tossed Waves</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-15989280103249569822011-10-18T06:00:00.000-07:002011-10-18T06:00:10.025-07:00Win a complete Jodi Picoult library!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.simonandschuster.ca/sweepstakes/jodi-picoult-sweepstakes"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWsoS8xbfug1srifJJ7U0U2N7297unR50EgawGDNoI6ZeVZFlpyvzdT4Nu4fdw2f6P3efcFGtcgWefaTNRIJiAEIVxE3ssDPfMGW0A3vkEei7nmRTTOd3dHVOnu56fDEwIzWn4YmCskk/s320/New+Image.JPG" width="256" /></a></div>Simon and Schuster Canada is running an amazing giveaway that starts today October 18th. The winner will receive all of Jodi Picoult's books. That's a lot of books! I have read several of her books and I loved all of them. I love how she deals with difficult issues, but does it with care and grace. If you haven't read any of her books, you need to go do so immediately! I think my favorite book of hers is Sing You Home which comes out in paperback today as well. You can find out more information about Jodi and her books at her<a href="http://www.jodipicoult.com/"> website.</a> She also has a new book <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Lone-Wolf/Jodi-Picoult/9781439102749">Lone Wolf</a> that comes out in February that I cannot wait for. Go <a href="http://www.simonandschuster.ca/sweepstakes/jodi-picoult-sweepstakes">enter the contest</a>!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-49343403714622127632011-10-13T07:56:00.000-07:002011-10-13T07:56:14.191-07:00Review: A Thousand Lives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/32183/images/a_thousand_lives_for_netgalley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://netgalley.com/data/image/user/publisher/32183/images/a_thousand_lives_for_netgalley.jpg" /></a></div><b>Title: </b>A Thousand Lives<br />
<b>Author: </b>Julia Scheeres<br />
<b>Source: </b>Netgalley<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
They left America for the jungles of Guyana to start a better life. Yet what started as a Utopian dream soon devolved into a terrifying work camp run by a madman, ending in the mass murder-suicide of 914 members in November 1978.<br />
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In <em>A Thousand Lives</em>, the <em>New York Times </em>bestselling memoirist Julia Scheeres traces the fates of five individuals who followed Jim Jones to South America as they struggled to first build their paradise, and then survive it. Each went for different reasons-some were drawn to Jones for his progressive attitudes towards racial equality, others were dazzled by his claims to be a faith healer. But once in Guyana, Jones's drug addiction, mental decay, and sexual depredations quickly eroded the idealistic community. <br />
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<b> </b>I read Julia Scheeres' previous book Jesusland, and really enjoyed it, so I was excited to read this one. I had heard of Jim Jones' group, but didn't know many of the details surrounding it. This book was very well written and you could tell that a lot of time and research went into it. The author consulted more than 50,000 pages of documents from the FBI about the group. I really liked how the author started from the beginning of the group and didn't just focus on the actual group "suicide". The fact that she did that allowed the reader to really see how the group and it's leader transformed from a safe place to one where people were afraid. I also really liked that the book followed the stories of several individual members and how they became involved in the group. This made the people seem more "real" to me, like I knew these people. It's kind of weird to say that I loved this book based on it's subject, but I did. I would definitely recommend this book to others and I will be sure to read other work by this author.<br />
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I am using this post to keep track of the books I read and review for Netgalley October. My goal is to read at least 5 Netgalley books this month.<br />
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<b>1. </b>Lady of the Rivers- Philippa Gregory<br />
<b>2.</b> A Thousand Lives-Julia Scheeres<b>3.</b><br />
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<b>1. </b><a href="http://talesandtreats.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-everything-we-ever-wanted.html">Everything We Ever Wanted</a>- Sara Shepard<br />
<b>2. </b><a href="http://talesandtreats.blogspot.com/2011/10/review-smuggled.html">Smuggled<b>- </b>Christina Shea</a><br />
<b>3. </b>Lady of the Rivers- Philippa Gregory<br />
<b>4. </b>A Thousand Lives- Julia Scheeres<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>NetGalley October is here!</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Basically, NetGalley Months are month long read-a-thons in which we all read as many NetGalley books as humanly possible. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For those of you that don't know, NetGalley is a service for people who read and recommend books. Publishers upload galleys to the site for NetGalley members to request.<br />
One of my favorite things about NetGalley is that anyone who reads and recommends books can use it for free. If you haven't already, you can register <a href="http://www.netgalley.com/signin.php" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I signed up for Netgalley a couple of months ago, and I really love it. It has given me a chance to read books I wouldn't normally have read. There are prizes too! If you're interested in signing up, go sign up at <a href="http://redhousebooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/netgalley-october-is-here-declare.html">Red House Books</a>. And big thanks to Emily for hosting Netgalley October!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-21279412266243758482011-10-10T13:05:00.000-07:002011-10-10T13:05:00.590-07:00Review: Everything we ever wanted<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61l7SXoT-RL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61l7SXoT-RL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<b>Title: </b>Everything We ever wanted<br />
<b>Author: </b>Sara Shepard<br />
<b>Source: </b>Netgalley<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
When Sylvie Bates-McAllister, a recently-widowed mother of two, receives a late-night phone call from the prestigious school founded by her grandfather, her family is thrown into chaos. Her adopted son Scott may have been involved in a hazing scandal --and it may or may not have led to the death of one of the boys he coaches on the school team. Sylvie must decide between maintaining her outwardly perfect life --the family estate outside Philadelphia inherited from her grandfather, the school, the reputation --and the son who she feels wants nothing to do with her. <br />
For Charles, Sylvie's biological son, the call dredges up a ghost from the past --his high school girlfriend who has been off the map for years. Joanna, his wife, is forced to confront all the things that she didn't anticipate would come along with a perfect life she imagined ever since she was a young girl, creating her scrapbook of the Bates-McAllisters. Scott, haunted by years of first impressions and assumptions, is drawn into a new understanding of a world he has never felt a part of. <br />
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For all the Bates-McAllisters, the phone call awakens questions lain dormant for years, revealing a tangled web of secrets that ties the family together: the mystery of the school hazing, Sylvie's deceased husband's locked filing cabinet, the event that tore Charles and Scott apart the night of their high school graduation, and the intended recipient of a certain bracelet. The quest to push past a legacy of resentment and judgments to unravel the truth takes the family on individual journeys across state lines, into hospitals, through the Pennsylvania woods, and face-to-face with the question: what if the life you always planned for, and dreamed of, isn't what you want at all?<br />
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This book was just okay. A lot of the characters bugged me, but they didn't seem "real" enough. The whole storyline with Charles' high school girlfriend bothered me too. And the synopsis makes it seem like the book is all about Scott but that's only a little part of the book. I think the book would have been better if it had been shortened by quite a bit. The writing was well done, but the story itself didn't seem fleshed out enough. That said, I am interested in reading the author's young adult books.<b> </b> <br />
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<b>**I was given an electronic copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924375760816618155noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8463196519825115911.post-83139828526903761502011-10-07T13:20:00.000-07:002011-10-07T13:20:00.060-07:00September wrap up<span id="internal-source-marker_0.5598911881319382" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I didn't get to read as much this month because I started school on the 1st. Here is what I read: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">129. Night road- 385 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">130. Sister </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">131. Bodily harm </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">132. Spin </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">133. After the fire </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">134. Unearthly asylum </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">135. Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">136. Everything we ever wanted </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">138. Feed </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">140. My stroke of insight </span><br />
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<b>Title: </b>Smuggled<br />
<b>Author: </b>Christina Shea<br />
<b>Source:</b> Netgalley<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
Sweeping from post–WWII rural Romania to the cosmopolitan Budapest of 1990, Christina Shea’s <em>Smuggled </em>is the story of Eva Farkas, who loses her identity, quite literally, as a young child, when she is smuggled in a flour sack across the Hungarian border to escape the Nazis.<br />
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When five-year-old Eva is trafficked from Hungary to Romania at the end of the war, she arrives in the fictional border town of Crisu, a pocket of relative safety, where she is given the name Anca Balaj by her aunt and uncle, and instructed never to speak another word of Hungarian again. “Eva is dead,” she is told. As the years pass, Anca proves an unquenchable spirit, full of passion and imagination, with a lust for life even when a backdrop of communist oppression threatens to derail her at every turn. Time is layered in this quest for self, culminating in the end of the Iron Curtain and Anca’s reclaiming of the name her mother gave her. When she returns to Hungary in 1990, the country is changing as fast as the price of bread, and Eva meets Martin, an American teacher who rents the apartment opposite hers and cultivates a flock of pigeons on his balcony. As Eva and Martin’s cross-cultural relationship deepens through their endeavor to rescue the boy downstairs from his abusive mother, Eva’s lifelong search for family and identity comes full circle.<br />
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I was instantly drawn to this book because I love books about WWII. To be honest, I read this book a couple of months ago, and I don't really remember that much about it. It was very well written and the story was interesting. But as I said, it was overall kind of forgettable.<br />
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<b>Author: </b>Mary Horlock<br />
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<b>Synopsis from Netgalley:</b><br />
Life on the tiny island of Guernsey in the English Channel can be tough for some, but things have become particularly claustrophobic for Cat Rozier. She’s fifteen, an overweight bookworm, and she’s just killed her best friend. <br />
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Nicolette is the new girl at Cat’s all-girls high school, beautiful and instantly popular. But Nic, without explanation, takes Cat under her wing, inviting her out to parties and teaching her to drink whatever they can shoplift. The two become inseparable, while the other girls wonder why Nic’s hanging out with this geek. A perceived betrayal, however, sends them spinning apart, and in the way that small-town bullies do best, Nic’s retribution is larger than life. <br />
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Cat’s father, Emile, has died just months before. While running the small press he’d inherited from his father, Emile made it his life’s work to bring to light the truth about the Nazi occupation of Guernsey, from Churchill’s abandonment of the island to those families and individuals who tried to resist in their own way. But above all, he hoped to set straight the reputation of his older brother, Charlie. Through audio recordings Charlie left behind before his death in 1965 and letters Emile wrote to various publications, we piece together Charlie’s own confession, his struggle against the Nazis, and the betrayals buried deep in the island and in the Rozier family story. <br />
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I really enjoyed this book. I liked the back and forth between narrators. I do wish the author would have focused more on the father's part of the story. I didn't really like the main narrator, Cat. She kind of annoyed me and her situation didn't seem to bother her at all. The book was well written and entertaining. Another thing I didn't like was the cover. I don't usually judge a book by it's cover, but all of the covers I've seen just didn't pull me in.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lucky Number 7</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.princessbookie.com/"><b>Princess Bookie's Contest Craze</b></a> is in full swing! Today I'm hosting a mini challenge. It'll be fun to see what everyone comes up with!!!</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>TO ENTER:</b></div><ul><li>Open a book you are currently reading.</li>
<li>Turn to page 7.</li>
<li>Count to the 7th word.</li>
<li>If the word is an article (a, an, the, etc), go to the next real word.</li>
<li>Type the word into a Google Images search, and select a picture that you can stand.</li>
<li>Create a blog post with the following information:</li>
<ul><li>Picture of book</li>
<li>Book title and author</li>
<li>7th word on 7th page</li>
<li>Randomly selected picture</li>
<li>Link to this post and <a href="http://www.princessbookie.com/"><b>Princess Bookie's Contest Craze</b></a>. </li>
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<b>My book:</b><br />
Tinkers by Paul Harding<br />
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My word: eight<br />
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