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The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
3.64
This review has been removed for personal reasons.
All of you who liked, commented, and otherwise made it clear that you "felt me" on my response to Th...more
Jan 18, 2009
Jan 16, 2009
 
Pretties (Uglies, #2)
3.87
**spoiler alert** Westerfield has a way of making me want to finish his books in one sitting, but I'm never sure whether that has more with his abilit...more
not set
Jun 14, 2008
 
I Is A Long Memoried Woman
4.00
We could only read excerpts of this (for my Af-Am lit class) -- because it's out-of-print and there be laws of copyright. Short version of review: the...more
Aug 2010
Sep 03, 2010
 
Letters to a Young Poet
4.36
2% misogyny wtf, 98% quotable win.
I feel like I need to reread this book, nightly, for the next several decades.
Apr 2011
Jan 09, 2008
 
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
3.43
While occasionally offering something genuinely touching or amusing or what-have-you, this collection of essays by current girl-teen and chick-lit aut...more
Jul 2007
Jan 09, 2008
 
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles (Canongate Myths)
3.82
Poets across the world groan at the sheer injustice of Jeanette Winterson's ability with words. If ever anyone could turn a phrase, Winterson can, and...more
Aug 2007
Jan 09, 2008
 
Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)
4.02
I just reread this as part of an informal "Ramona will save us, as she always has" book group with a friend. It is, by no accident, the one I reread m...more
Feb 10, 2008
Feb 10, 2008
 
The Woman Warrior
3.69
I think I read almost this entire book with my jaw dropped. Maxine Hong Kingston has an incredible ability to say so much, so brilliantly, within ever...more
Jan 31, 2008
Jan 19, 2008
 
Memoirs of a Bookbat
4.08
This was the newest installment in my "reread available juvy lit to survive the stress of finals" series. Initially, I was disappointed. Lasky varies...more
Dec 02, 2008
Dec 03, 2008
 
Live from the Gates of Hell: An Insider's Look at the Anti-Abortion Movement
3.25
This book is especially difficult to rate because, with content that is not only fascinating (in a disturbing sense) but also important, it's one I'd...more
Jun 08, 2009
Jun 08, 2009
 
Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again
3.81
I find it a little hilarious that of everything I've been reading, this is the book I finished most quickly. That says something, I guess, to the effe...more
Feb 27, 2009
Feb 25, 2009
 
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
3.99
Page's book reads as a bit of a polemic at times, with her (justified) frustration at the pro-life movement seeping through into the prose. The result...more
Jun 06, 2009
Jun 05, 2009
 
A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)
4.05
**spoiler alert** Now that I've adopted Wealhtheow Wylfing's rating system (see my profile) I feel kind of dishonest awarding this book -- which I've...more
Mar 24, 2012
Mar 22, 2012
 
An Abundance of Katherines
3.82
The problems:

1) This book not being Paper Towns.
2) The characters being vehicles instead of characters.
3) The racial minority best friend (y'know, ag...more
Jul 29, 2011
Jul 26, 2011
 
Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
3.61
The things we do for research...

I tried to read this book (against Jessica Valenti's advice and my own better judgment) as part of a research project....more
not set
Feb 08, 2011
 
A Murder for Her Majesty
4.18
This is one of those nostalgia-heavy books that looms large in my childhood memory, and given that, I was anxious it wouldn't hold up. It's true that-...more
Feb 15, 2011
Feb 08, 2011
 
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
3.83
Full disclosure: I picked it up based on its inclusion in Hank Green's "This Is Not Harry Potter." (Bonus nerd points?) I guess I figured anything inv...more
not set
Feb 23, 2012
 
Such a Pretty Girl
3.86
TRIGGER WARNINGS on this one for rape/ incest and (less obviously) for ableism.

This is an incredibly engrossing read: high drama, short chapters. I sa...more
not set
May 23, 2012
 
We Need to Talk About Kevin
4.03
The title character in We Need to Talk about Kevin thrives on making people uncomfortable. His mother's story might be said to do the same. The narrat...more
Jun 12, 2012
May 31, 2012
 
Stonewall
3.90
Duberman places the 1969 riots as the climax, rather than the origin, of gay rights activism, taking time to explore the burgeoning "homophile movemen...more
Sep 2009
Oct 11, 2009
 
Luna
3.92
Devoured this, in less than 24 hours. Marvelously quick and moving read. (I do not often cry at books. #somethinginmyeye)

Putting my more critical hat...more
Jul 25, 2011
Jul 25, 2011
 
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
4.38
Ever since I put down the first Song of Ice and Fire book (a few times), due to the amount of violence (particularly the violence against women), I've...more
Jan 2009
Nov 27, 2008
 
The Book of Blood and Shadow
3.60
YA murder mystery based in coded messages unearthed from the 1500s? A secret society and a dangerous adventure through Prague? What's not to love in t...more
Jul 21, 2012
Jul 12, 2012
 
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
3.88
This is one of those kidlit classics that I return to on a fairly regular basis. Because it breaks one of the _Bird By Bird_ rules that has most stuck...more
Oct 2010
Oct 08, 2010
 
In Her Day
3.43
RMB's thoughts on the women's movement (etc) would probably have made a better essay than they did a novel. The characters seem puppeteered to parrot...more
May 18, 2009
May 19, 2009
 
A Tale of Two Cities
3.74
In the interest of broadened horizons, I skipped my annual(ish) reread of A Christmas Carol in favor of some first-time Dickens. Given my love of clas...more
Jan 26, 2012
Dec 14, 2011
 
Paper Towns
4.10
Phenomenally geektastic page-turner that I'd recommend to any of my YA-reading pals... Nearly my only critique is that there are times when the narrat...more
Dec 31, 2010
Dec 28, 2010
 
The Night I Disappeared
3.81
I keep coming back to this book for some reason, despite the fact that certain elements -- the presence of Morgan from SGG for instance -- seem almost...more
not set
Nov 26, 2008
 
13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)
3.67
About 20 pages into this book, I knew it couldn't possibly be long enough. I did a pretty decent job of savoring it-- until last night, when my Intern...more
Aug 2011
May 12, 2011
 
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
3.88
The love I have for (most of) this book is largely irrational... (although I suppose I could get all philosophical and point out that love generally i...more
Jul 2007
Jan 09, 2008
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