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January reading round-up

January 31, 2017March 29, 2017Leave a comment

# of books read: 20 audiobooks listened to: 5 ebooks read: 6 nonfiction read: 2 ARCs read: 1 books from the Experiment in Terror series: 4 books from the White Cat series: 3 vintage YA: 3 total page count: 4,376 I did a ton of reading this month. In newer releases, I finished up Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at … Continue reading January reading round-up

Review: Paper Towns

April 27, 2012September 28, 2012Leave a comment

Paper Towns by John Green Summary: Q has always liked his next door neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman, although after that one time they found a dead body when they were 9, Margo has become popular while Q remains a band geek who doesn't even play an instrument. One night near the end of senior year, … Continue reading Review: Paper Towns

Review: The Dead Boys

March 9, 2012September 28, 2012Leave a comment

The Dead Boys by Royce Buckingham Teddy just moved to a new town, where his mother will be starting a job at the nuclear power plant. Next door to his house there's a tree that years ago sucked up some toxic waste, then developed a taste for 12-year-old boys. Teddy keeps meeting kids his age, … Continue reading Review: The Dead Boys

Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

March 8, 2012September 28, 2012Leave a comment

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Karou is living a double life: one as a student at a Czech art school, and the other in a mysterious world filled with chimera (creatures that are part human, part animal). This other life is so mysterious that Karou does not even know what the teeth … Continue reading Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Review: Chime

March 6, 2012September 28, 2012Leave a comment

Chime by Franny Billingsley The plot as I could figure: Briony is a witch. She lives on the edge of the swamp with her twin, Rose, and their pastor father, ever since Briony called up a swamp spirit to flood the house and injured her stepmother. When Eldrich moves into town, Briony is a bit … Continue reading Review: Chime

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