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I'm picking my December book for the Random Reading Challenge. I'm entering the number's 1-50 at random.org then I'll go count the piles of books in my room until I come to that number. And the number is ..... 9. #9 .... Boneman's Daughters by Ted Dekker
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Crogan's Vengeance by Chris Schweizer Pages: 185 pgs. Ages: 13+ Finished: Dec. 3, 2009 First Published: Oct. 2008 Genre: YA, graphic novel, action/adventure Rating: 4/5 First sentence: ... and he'll be over every week until school starts to mow your lawn. Reason for Reading: Cybils nominee. ...
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Book Three of this series by Meg Cabot, Hunter's Moon, has been nominated for a Cybils Award this year, so I've decided to read from the beginning to get the whole story. There is actually a novel which starts the series off but I'm skipping that for the time being and will decide if I want to ...
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Avalon High
... About the way cable companies operate . If you hate paying for the channels that you don't use - tell them: Stop the packaging system and end cable monopolies! Also, let's use the opportunity and tell them exactly what we think of the so called " local programming improvement fund " and of ...
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The Stand
Politics
These are my last two books read in November. #242 - We Were There Vol. 1 by Yuki Obata. (Nov. 2008), (2002 orig. Jap.) 187 pgs. Age 13+ - This back to front Japanese manga did nothing for me. I almost didn't read past my obligatory 50 pgs but figured it wouldn't kill me to see it through to ...
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If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine. illustrated by Elroy Freem. Pages: 79 pgs. Ages: 7+ Finished: Nov. 27, 2009 First Published: 1986, (new & updated, 2006) Genre: children, non-fiction, history Rating: 4/5 First sentence: One hundred and fifty years ago there was no ...
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239. Book One: Kin by Holly Black. illustrated by Ted Naifeh. 2008. 117 pgs. Ages 13+ - Rue's world is torn apart when her mother disappears and her professor father is held on suspicion of murdering a student. She finds out that her mother is a faerie who has returned home and Rue must deal ...
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I'm short on time today so just a list for you to peruse this time around. Things have slowed down to a reasonable mailbox load last week. I received a few more Cybils plus a regular review copy (even though it too is a GN!) and I won an ARC. REVIEW COPY Graphic Classics: Louisa May Alcott (from ...
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Louisa May Alcott
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237. Volume One: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor with Liz Cavalier. art by Ben Templesmith. 2007. 176 pgs. ages 14+ - I haven't read the novels so I'm jumping in here with no prior knowledge of the story. I am under the presumption that this is a parallel story to Alice's story in the ...
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Alice Munro
#235. The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang. illustrated by Derek Kirk Kim. 2009. 170 pgs. 15+ - This book of short stories is an adult title with crossover appeal to teens. Yang shows us here that he has a taste for the strange. In these three stories Yang has taken a person's ...
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#232. Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood by Tony Lee. illustrated by Sam Hart & Artur Fujita. 2009. Age 13+. - An absolutely beautiful book! Slick, glossy pages with gorgeous artwork done in various monotones for different settings such as the forest scenes are done in greens, the Nottingham ...
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#231. Joey Fly Private Eye in Creepy Crawly Crime by Aaron Reynolds. illustrated by Neil Numberman. 2009. Age 8+. - This is a wonderful crime noire in graphic novel format. Taking place in the Bug City all the characters are various insects and arachnids. Joey Fly is a Private Eye (da da ...
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This is an off topic post about politics and pro-life; please kindly skip and do not read if you do not share the same values. Despite the fact that Canada has one of the most liberal abortion laws in the world and that recent polls show that most Canadians would prefer to have some ...
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Politics
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa, translated by Lauren Na The Story of Life on the Golden Fields Vol. 1 Pages: 319 pgs. Ages: 16+ Finished: Nov. 26, 2009 First Published: (Apr. 2009 Eng. trans) (2003 orig. Korean) Genre: YA, realistic fiction Rating: 4.5/5 First sentence: "Golly! Them ...
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Kim Harrison
The Heroine of Long Point by Leslie and Lois Benham . illustrated by Vernon Mould Buckskin Book 4 Pages: 113 pgs. Ages: 8+ Finished: Nov. 26, 2009 First Published: 1963 Genre: children, historical fiction Rating: 4.5/5 First sentence: This is a true story about a boy, a sailing-ship, and a ...
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Frank Belknap Long
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff Pages: 64 pgs. Ages: 5+ First Published: 1958 Genre: easy reader Rating: 4/5 First sentence: One day Danny went to the museum. Reason for Reading: my son read aloud to me. Acquired: We own this copy. Comments: Danny visits the museum and when he gets to ...
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The 4th volume in the Courtney Crumrin series has been nominated for a Cybils Award this year so I thought I would read from the beginning to better appreciate volume 4, instead of jumping into a story in progress. Courtney Cumrin series by Ten Naifeh (recommended ages 11+, due to some language ...
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Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel adapted by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Conkin. Art by Giovanni and Paolo Lamanna Book 1: Artemis Fowl - It has been so long since I read the novel that I barely remembered the story before I started to read this. I wasn't impressed with the first Artemis Fowl novel ...
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Artemis Fowl
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Didier Lefevre & Emmanuel Guilbert. illustrated by Frederic Lemercier, introduction and translated by Alexis Siegel Pages: 267 pgs. Ages: 18+ Finished: Nov. 23, 2009 First Published: May, 2009 (English translation) ...
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The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi Amulet , Book Two Pages: 219 pgs. Ages: 10+ Finished: Nov. 23, 2009 First Published: Sept, 2009 Genre: children, graphic novel, fantasy Rating: 4/5 First sentence: "Let go of me." Reason for Reading: Next in series. Cybils nominee Acquired: I ...
