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Books I Should Have Read in High School

Image via Wikipedia This year, I’m taking on the Books I Should Have Read in High School, But Didn’t challenge Dana is running, and I’m pledging to read six books I feel I should have read, putting me...

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Review: Back to Blood

The first Tom Wolfe book I ever read was The Bonfire of the Vanities, which I pulled off my grandfather’s bookshelf one December afternoon. I was too young then to see what cutting satire Wolfe...

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Review: Code Name: Verity

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein My rating: 5 of 5 stars There are lots of aspects of my job to love, but one is always the moment where a student tells me she read a book and really loved it–bonus...

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Review: An Abundance of Katherines

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green My rating: 4 of 5 stars There’s a lot of charm in An Abundance of Katherines, which is kind of a funny thing to say about a book that includes a hunt for feral...

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Review: Orphan Train

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline My rating: 3 of 5 stars For seventy-five years, groups like the Children’s Aid Society rounded up impoverished urban children, many immigrants, and put them on...

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Review: Fin & Lady

In a recent Top Ten Tuesday over at The Broke and the Bookish, the topic was Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc. What a intriguing challenge, right? But I couldn’t come up with...

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My Summer Reading, Part One

As I slowly ease back into blogging after my summer hiatus, my one regret is that I haven’t been keeping track of what I’ve read this summer. That’s been a great habit for me in 2014, between this site...

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My Summer Reading, Part Two

Summer reading, part two!  We Were Liars: I ordered this for my daughter Sophie, who went through an Agatha Christie and Nancy Drew phase, and this is certainly a thriller with a complicated structure...

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End-of-Summer Reading

I read these books as the summer was winding down and the school was gearing up–not quite summer books, but ones that lingered with me during a busy time of year. The Invisible Woman : How do you write...

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Around the World Challenge Review: In the Shadow of the Banyan

While it fits well with my around the world reading challenge goals, In the Shadow of the Banyan is also one of the books I chose for myself as a Christmas book this winter; I don’t even remember how I...

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