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November 29, 2010 reading

Book Talk: Emily of Deep Valley, by Maud Hart Lovelace

Emily of Deep Valley: A Deep Valley BookMaud Hart LovelaceHarper Perennial Modern Classics (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback (ISBN 0062003305 / 9780062003300)Fiction (YA/children’s), 336 pagesSource: Publisher, via Book Club Girl (Jennifer Hart)Reason for Reading: Review Opening Lines: “‘It’s the last day of high school…ever,’ Annette said. She said it gaily, pulling Emily’s hand and swinging her about so that they faced the red brick building with its tall arched windows and doors, its elaborate limestone trimming, […]

November 23, 2010 reading

Book Talk: Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Looking for Alaska John Green Speak/Penguin (2006), Paperback (ISBN 0142402516 / 9780142402511) Fiction (YA), 256 pages Source: Personal/purchased copy Reason for reading: None in particular; new-to-me author, but a book-blogger favorite Opening lines: “The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate […]

November 12, 2010 reading

Book Talk: Outside the Ordinary World, by Dori Ostermiller (TLC Book Tour)

Outside the Ordinary World Dori Ostermiller Mira (2010), Edition: Original Paperback (ISBN 0778328899 / 9780778328896) Fiction: 400 pages Source: Publisher, via TLC Book Tours Reason for reading: Blog tour/review Opening Lines: “I’m pacing circles in the family therapist’s waiting room, trying to discern what my daughter is saying on the other side of that door. Hannah hasn’t spoken to me in days, but she seems to have plenty to say to a stranger: I can […]

November 3, 2010 reading

Book Talk: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead

When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books (2009), Hardcover (ISBN 0385737424 / 9780385737425) Fiction (children’s/YA), 208 pages Source: Personal/purchased copy Reason for reading: leftover from 24-Hour Readathon, follow-up to my re-read of A Wrinkle in Time Opening Lines: “So Mom got the postcard today. It says Congratulations in big curly letters, and at the very top is the address of Studio TV-15 on West 58th Street. After three years of trying, she has […]

October 28, 2010 reading

Book Talk: The Chosen One, by Carol Lynch Williams

The Chosen One: A Novel Carol Lynch Williams St. Martin’s Griffin (2010), Paperback (ISBN 0312627750 / 9780312627751) Fiction (YA), 240 pages Source: Personal/purchased copy Reason for Reading: Fall 2010 Readathon Opening Lines: “‘If I was going to kill the Prophet,’ I say, not even keeping my voice low, ‘I’d do it in Africa.’ “I look into Mariah’s light green eyes. “She stares back at me and smiles, like she knows what I mean and agrees. […]

October 20, 2010 reading

Book Talk: Carney’s House Party/Winona’s Pony Cart, by Maud Hart Lovelace

Carney’s House Party/Winona’s Pony Cart (Two Deep Valley Books) Maud Hart Lovelace Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback (ISBN 0062003291 / 9780062003294) Fiction (YA/children’s), 448 pages Source: Publisher, via Book Club Girl (Jennifer Hart) Reason for Reading: Review/Fall 2010 Readathon Opening Lines (Carney’s House Party): “Carney was climbing Sunset Hill. “Far below she could hear a group of her classmates, like herself just released from examinations, singing as they strolled beside the brook.” […]

October 18, 2010 reading

Book Talk: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks E. Lockhart (blog) Hyperion (2009), Paperback (ISBN 0786838191 / 9780786838196) Fiction (YA), 352 pages Source: personal/purchased copy Reason for reading: Fall 2010 Readathon Opening Lines: “I, Frankie Landau-Banks, hereby confess that I was the sole mastermind behind the mal-doings of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds. I take full responsibility for the disruptions caused by the Order — including the library lady, the doggies in the window, night […]

October 13, 2010 reading

Book Talk: The Summer We Read Gatsby, by Danielle Ganek

The Summer We Read Gatsby: A Novel Danielle Ganek Viking Adult (2010), Hardcover (ISBN 0670021784 / 9780670021789) Fiction, 304 pages Source: ARC from independent publicist (Engelman & Co.) – pub date June 2010 Reason for reading: Accepted for review Opening Lines: “Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake. But the invitation was specific. And demanding. A GATSBY party. Wear white. And below that, in imploring cursive: ‘Hats for the Ladies.’” Book […]

October 12, 2010 reading

(Banned) Book Talk: A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle

A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Originally published 1962 This edition: Yearling (Bantam Dell) (1973), reprint, Paperback (0440498058 / 9780440498056) Fiction (children/young adult), 211 pages Source: personal copy (borrowed from kids’ bookshelf) Reason for reading: Re-read for Banned Books Week 2010 Opening Lines: “It was a dark and stormy night.” Book Description: Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an […]

October 7, 2010 reading

(Banned) Book Talk: Forever, by Judy Blume

Forever… Judy Blume Originally published 1975 This edition: Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2007), Paperback (ISBN 1416953914 / 9781416953913) Fiction (YA), 208 pages Source: personal copy (purchased) Reason for Reading: Re-read for Banned Books Week 2010 Opening Lines: “Sybil Davison has a genius IQ and has been laid by at least six different guys. She told me so herself, the last time she was visiting her cousin, Erica, who is my good friend. Erica says this is […]

October 6, 2010 reading

(Banned) Book Talk: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak Laurie Halse Anderson Original copyright 1999 This edition: Penguin Platinum, 2006, Paperback (ISBN 0142407321 / 9780142407325) Fiction (YA), 197 pages Source: Purchased/personal copy Reason for Reading: Banned Books Week 2010 Opening Lines: “It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.” Book description: Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people […]

September 29, 2010 reading

Book Talk: The Lonely Polygamist, by Brady Udall

The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel Brady Udall W. W. Norton & Company (2010), Hardcover (ISBN 0393062627 / 9780393062625) Fiction, 608 pages Source: ARC received from publisher (via review program) – pub date May 2010 Reason for Reading: Review for LibraryThing Early Reviewers Opening Lines: “To put it as simply as possible: this is the story of a polygamist who has an affair. But there is much more to it than that, of course; the life […]

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