How we first met is about how two people became together. Their names are jenny and rob the first time jenny saw rob was in school in rainbow suspenders and that's how jenny remembers him. Rob was telling his friend that he has been laying as eye on jenny. In the library rob sat next to jenny so he ...
I bought this book on a lark, feeling nostalgic for the books I read as a pre-teen and remembering this one as one that my BF and I would sneak back and forth between us. That's almost all I remembered about it though and I expected it to be an eye-rolling what was I thinking? trip down memory lane...
Places I Never Meant To Be is a collection of young adult short stories and essays that contain material that is often banned by schools and libraries. The stories deal with issues surrounding love, race, class, sex/sexuality, illness/dying, abuse, bullying, homelessness, and moral dilemmas. All of ...
This book had so much potential. The writing, however, seemed to lack flare, that's what I am going to call it. I think I'm becoming a bit of a negative book reviewer here. Anyways, unfortunately, the author happens to be one of these writers with these ridiculous reasons for why something can't be....
I was really excited to read the Missing Girl. I had been trying to get a copy for a few months and was thrilled to find it on Amazon for three dollars. I wanted so badly to love it, but I honestly didn't. I've read a couple other books centered around the theme of abduction that were so much better...
was really looking forward to it, but the stories were a bit of a let down - most of them seemed incomplete and needing something. the best part was the reflections by each author at the end of each story about their experiences with censorship
So effectively creepy!
I liked best (titles back-translated)- Chocolate Pudding (A trailer-park-girl and a middle-class boy named after T. Roosevelt fall in love after acknowledging their joint passion for chocolate pudding)- Mimi, the Fish (Shy Mimi has finally been invited by the boy of her dreams but has to deliver a p...
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