Ecoterrorism
with benign intent.
Scarily plausible.
Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar. Delacorte, 2015 192 pages.
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Hard conversations
that we can't seem to have well.
Alles fleisch indeed . . .
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. Metropolitan Books, 2014, 304 pages.
P.S. Apparently I took a weeklong blog break. Oops. I'm only mortal . . .
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I didn't quite get
how the time travel worked, but
I didn't quite care.
Landline by Rainbow Rowell. St. Martin's Press, 2014, 320 pages.
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Moves beyond its
tabloid premise (DEAD FROZEN HEAD!)
to find real meaning.
Noggin by John Corey Whaley. Atheneum, 2014, 352 pages.
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Deeper than it looks
and expertly wrought.
Give that fish a sticker, eh?
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm. Random House, 2014, 208 pages.
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Is it creepy that
I want Jackson to be my
boyfriend? Probably.
The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson. Scholastic/Levine, 2014, 240 pages.
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Once you get over
Y2K as historical
fiction, it's swell.
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. Plume, 2012, 336 pages.
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Profane, terrifying,
hilarious, and wise.
PLUS GIANT MANTIDS.
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith. Dutton, 2014, 432 pages.
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Starts fast, finishes fast,
relentless in between.
Fasten your seat belts.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale. Bloomsbury, 2014, 416 pages.
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Robotics geeks and
evil cheerleaders team up
for mutual gain.
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen and Faith Erin Hicks. First Second, 2013, 280 pages.
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Predictable conflict,
unpredictable resolution.
Fun stuff.
Hollywood, Dead Ahead (43 Old Cemetery Road) by Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise. Harcourt, 2013, 144 pages.
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Pants-wetting, in both
the "scary" and "funny" sense.
(YAY BETTER JACKET.)
The Madness Underneath (Shades of London #2) by Maureen Johnson. Putnam, 2013, 400 pages.
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Fast-paced, impressively
detailed, and ultimately,
terrifying.
Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin. Flash Point, 2012, 272 pages.
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One part Incredibles,
two parts Superman, seven
parts awesomesauce.
Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities by Mike Jung. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012, 320 pages.
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The hero's tour takes
an unexpected detour.
Ah, celebrity.
Legends of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke. First Second, 2012, 224 pages.
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Cute epistolary
series gets lost under
heavy messaging.
The Phantom of the Post Office (43 Old Cemetery Road #4) by Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise. Harcourt, 2012, 160 pages.
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Those of you (those, er, seven of you) who check this blog regularly may have noticed that it was monkey broken all week. This was not a gremlin attack, but rather the consequences of my switching domain hosts (and, er, not actually knowing as much about switching domain hosts as I thought I did. Thanks, dreamhost.com, for fixing my stupid!).
So. All is well, I am back, and I promise I will never muck about with the back end again. (Heh heh. I am twelve.)
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Took me 300
pages to remember what
was going on. Phew.
Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Tegen/Harper, 2012, 544 pages.
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Slightly twee, but made
palatable by Kalman.
(SEE WHAT I DID THERE?)
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan, illustrated by Maira Kalman. Penguin, 2011, 240 pages.
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absurd, then veers into just
absurd. Still, fun ride.
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wish I'd been an engineer.
Rock on, smartypants.
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at the state of media
and how we got here.
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still don't understand quantum
physics. Is it me?
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against the current, borne back
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A review haiku! What a great idea!
Wish robotics club had
been a thing in my hs
cheerleaders never change