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Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

I can't believe January is almost over already, you guys! How's it going with your resolutions? So far, I've managed to stay on track with my Goodreads 2013 reading challenge (thanks to a bit of cheating with easy young-adult and comic books). Join me on Goodreads and you can see every shameful book I've been reading! And check out my latest review, for Matched — yep, yet another teenage dystopian romance. In related news, I've joined a friend's book club, so with any luck, they'll have slightly higher standards for their reading selections that will help class up my virtual [...]

Matched (Matched Trilogy, Book 1)

Strike a Flame Author: Ally Condie Without really intending to, I’ve read an awful lot of dystopian teen romance in the past year. I wouldn’t blame the librarian for thinking that I have a tween-age daughter, based on my armloads of books featuring sad-looking girls in evening gowns posing against scuffed steel backgrounds. Nope, it’s just me! Anyway, the one benefit of all this shame-reading is that I feel qualified to inform you that Matched (book 1 of the hugely popular Matched trilogy) is a mostly worthwhile addition to your Young Lady’s Dystopian Library — whatever age you yourself may [...]