Archive for June, 2010
First, I’d like to say hello again. It’s nice to be back. I am post-school, post-craziness and am happy to be reading again. And even reading things I want to read… not books like Stats to Go, Financing Sport and Applied Strategic Planning. Hopefully this is just the first of many of this summer’s fun […]
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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
So, yeah, I read this. Just the first one, not all four in a sitting like Wendy. 🙂 Unfortunately, I am probably compelled enough to read the second one. It is a really quick and easy read, hence the attraction. The characters themselves are pretty predictable and the love story slightly gushy for my tastes, […]
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The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Being that I love to read it and it is summer (my time off since I’m a teacher), I have been desperately looking for a new book to read. (I have successfully reread several books in my time off so far.) I was at a friend’s house the other day and decided to raid her […]
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I got this book before I really knew how popular it apparently is. It was written by a Swedish journalist (with the setting in Sweden with all these places I’ve never heard of and names that are difficult to pronounce) who wrote a whole trilogy, then died of a heart attack in 2004 before they […]
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After having read this book a second time, it is still definitely in the running for one of my favorite books of all time. It has slower parts, but as a whole it is almost like reading poetry. It was originally written in Spanish and is one of the reasons I want to learn Spanish- […]
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