Tag: teen
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
My Rating: 2 stars I may be biased, because I did not finish reading this book, but honestly, this novel was not as great as I thought it was going to be. I had read so many good reviews and heard so many good things about this novel, so I guess I started it with [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2012 under Jonathan Safran Foer.
Tags: Extremely Loud, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, review, teen
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“The Casual Vacancy”
I know I am very behind on this, but on Thursday, J.K. Rowling announced the title of her new novel for adults, called “The Casual Vacancy” and a brief synopsis of the book. “When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2012 under J.K. Rowling.
Tags: Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, teen, The Casual Vacany, Upcoming books
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The Hunger Games
My Rating: 3 stars I walked into the theater with very high (very unrealistic) expectations for this movie. I guess had these high expectations because, well, the Hunger Games books themselves are one of the best young adult novels ever written, I expected its movie to be as mind-blowing as the book. Now, don’t me [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2012 under Movies.
Tags: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, movie, review, Suzanne Collins, teen, The Hunger Games, the Hunger Games movie
Comments: 1
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
My Rating: 5 stars When I think of classic novels, the first thing the comes to mind is one of those boring, musty books that students are forced to read in English class that barely seems like it is even written in English. I was highly mistaken. The Catcher in the Rye, a title very [...]
Posted: April 2nd, 2012 under J.D. Salinger.
Tags: J.D. Salinger, review, teen, The Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Crossed by Ally Condie
My Rating: 5 stars In the sequel to Matched by Allie Condie, Cassia and Ky’s story continues. Both are trying to find a way to be reunited with each other after they were both separated by the Society. Ky was sent to the Outer Provinces to his sure death. Cassia discovers that Ky escaped to [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2012 under Ally Condie.
Tags: Ally Condie, Crossed, Matched, Reached, review, teen
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A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
My Rating: 4 stars On New Year’s Eve, four very different people, named Martin, Maureen, Jess, and JJ, meet at a very odd place: on top of a fifteen-story building. They are all up on top of that building all for different reasons, but one common purpose. None of them thought they would run into [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2012 under Nick Hornby.
Tags: A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby, review, teen
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“Bad Books”
Besides a dog, a book can be man’s best friend. Books provide an escape from reality, a break from our thoughts and our everyday lives. We read books to our children, before we go to bed, during lunch breaks and on the beach. But what is the purpose of a book? What makes a book [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2012 under "Bad Books".
Tags: Bad Books, Harry Potter, Hate List, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Jennifer Brown, Ned Vizzini, opinion, Suzanne Collins, teen, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Trilogy
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Matched by Ally Condie
My Rating: 4 stars In Cassia’s world, Society rules all. Society tells you where you live, what job you will have, what food you will eat, what you will wear, who you love, and even when you die. One has no opinion and no choices. Society does that for you. For teenagers, the Matching ceremony [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2012 under Ally Condie.
Tags: Ally Condie, Delirium, Lauren Oliver, Matched, review, teen
Comments: 1
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My Rating: 5 stars Hazel’s life has been planned out. Her diagnosis controlled her life and a tumor-shrinking medical miracle kept added a few more years to her lifetime. Hazel had cancer. She was fighting a war against it, and she knew that in the end the cancer would eventually win. Her parents – whom [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2012 under John Green.
Tags: John Green, Looking For Alaska, Paper Towns, review, teen, TFIOS, The Fault in Our Stars
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Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
My Rating: 5 stars The word “perfect” itself is subjunctive. It can mean a variety of different things to different people. Something that is ugly to someone could be beautiful to another. Everyone has a different way of discovering what is “perfect” for themselves. Everyone has some place or someone that they’d rather be. For [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2012 under Ellen Hopkins.
Tags: Ellen Hopkins, Impulse, Perfect, review, teen
Comments: 3
