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Selection, The

The Hunger Game Show Author: Kiera Cass How is getting married like a gladiatorial fight to the death? If you’ve been through a wedding or two, you may have your own thoughts on the matter, but for the purposes of this review, the answer is Kiera Cass’s The Selection, the first book in the Selection Trilogy. And if you picked up this book based on the clever, yet undeniably girly, book trailer or because of the cover art of a beautiful girl in a ballgown preening in front of a bunch of mirrors, there may be a little more darkness [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:14-07:00June 7th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |

Divergent (Stephanie)

War is Coming Author: Veronica Roth The problem – if I may generalize – with dystopian YA fiction is that authors are always having to come up with nefarious ways for those cruel, authoritarian, out-of-touch adults to RUIN EVERYTHING by keeping teenagers from their rightful happiness. At this stage, all the plausible premises are pretty much taken, so the set-ups are getting fairly outlandish and hard to swallow. Which brings us to the latest example, Divergent (book 1 of the Divergent Trilogy). This time around, a near-future dystopian Chicago has been fenced off from the greater world and divided into [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:16-07:00June 6th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , , |

Reading is the Best Medicine

I’ve been pretty sick for the past few weeks — like, multiple-doctor-visits, miss-a-week-of-work sick — and it wasn’t the fun kind where you sip ginger ale on the couch and watch movies all day. It was more like the sleep-14-hours-a-day-because-you’re-worn-out-from-coughing kind. So you can imagine how happy I was when I finally felt good enough to hold up a book and focus my eyes on the print! I have to tell you, my Kindle was a lifesaver. With my all-pajama wardrobe and erratic showering schedule, there was no way I was going out in public to the library. But I [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:16-07:00May 30th, 2012|Tags: , , |
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