October 2010
11 posts
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“You’re dangerous.”he says.
Why?”
Because you make me believe...”
– Rules of Attraction
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Book Review: Rules of Attraction (Perfect...
Author: Simone Elkeles
Summary:
When Carlos Fuentes returns to America after living in Mexico for a year, he doesn’t want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him at a high school in Colorado . Carlos likes living his life on the edge and wants to carve his own path—just like Alex did. Then he meets Kiara Westford. She doesn’t talk much and is completely ...
September 2010
25 posts
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“I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I...”
– Perfect Chemistry
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“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold...”
– Perfect Chemistry
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“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better...”
– Perfect Chemistry
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“We’re actors in our lives, pretendin’ to be who we want people to...”
– Perfect Chemistry
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Book Review: Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry...
Author: Simone Elkeles
Summary:
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she’s worked so hard for—her flawless...
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“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s...”
– Looking for Alaska
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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
– Looking for Alaska
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Book Review: Looking for Alaska
Author: John Green
Summary:
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words – and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great...
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“Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you...”
– The Red Pyramid
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Book Review: The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles #1)
Author: Rick Riordan
Summary:
Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment” at the British Museum, where he hopes to...
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omgitsmira asked: Besides Bob Ong books and Ricky Lee's, what other books can you recommend that are written by filipino authors?
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“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall...”
– Mockingjay
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“You love me. Real, or not real?” I tell him.
“Real”
– Mockingjay
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Book Review: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3)
Author: Suzanne Collins
Summary:
My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss’s family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. It is by...
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“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to...”
– The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
– The Truth About Forever
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“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a...”
– The Truth About Forever
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Book Review: The Truth About Forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
Summary:
A long dull summer stretches ahead of Macy while her boyfriend Jason is away at Brain camp. Days will be spent at a boring life in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of her faher.
But sometimes unexpected things...
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Book Review: The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Summary:
She sees dead people — and they see her.
Chloe Saunders used to have a pretty normal life. But that changed on the day she met her first ghost. Locked up in Lyle House, a group home for troubles teens, she finds out that there’s more to the home’s teen residents than meets the eye. Will Chloe be able to uncover the dangerous secrets of Lyle...
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Book Review: Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2)
Author: Suzanne Collins
Summary:
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the...
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Book Review: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games...
Author: Suzanne Collins
Summary:
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation ofPanem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live...
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Book Review: The Girl Who Played with Fire...
Author: Stieg Larsson
Summary:
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazineMillennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the...
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Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
Author: Stieg Larsson
Summary:
Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there’s always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year...
