ABANDONED:

van de Ruit, John. (2008). Spud - the madness continues... New York: Razorbill/Penguin.

[Was supposed to review this one for ACL, but just couldn't do it. I got 140 pages in and it wasn't moving me AT ALL. Like I mentioned, there's really no plot - it's 300 pages of random, paragraph long non-sequitors. In addition, it's mildly homophobic, there's way too much attention paid to pubic hair counting and testicle dropping, it's crude and creepy (one character goes out and kills a bunch of animals, and they're just listed off as if it was nothing...), and life is too short and there are way too many other books out there that I'd rather read. Period.]

STARTED:
Kinney, Jeff. (2008). Diary of a wimpy kid: Roderick rules. New York: Amulet.

[LOVED the first one and am already SO pleased to see the "Cheese Touch" mentioned again so soon in this second in the series.]

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