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Mull, Brandon. (2013). Chasing the prophecy (Beyonders #3). New York: Aladdin.
[One of my favorite children's/YA authors.]
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Green, John. (2012). The fault in our stars. New York: Dutton/Penguin.
[This one had received SO MUCH hype that by the time I got around to reading it, maybe my perception was skewed. That said, it still just didn't resonate with me as much as I expected it to. Hazel and Augustus meet at a cancer support group meeting for teens, hit it off immediately, and embark on a relationship knowing full well that their time together will be limited. While I thought some of the language was wonderful, many things that the kids say just didn't seem like they'd come from a teenagers mouth... even one who's staring death in the face. The character of the author of Hazel's favorite book seemed like a gross caricature, and Hazel and Augustus's SUDDEN trip to Amsterdam (Augustus uses his "wish" from the Make a Wish Foundation...) didn't seem plausible. This isn't to say that I didn't enjoy the book at all, I suppose it was all of the praise that set it up for me as too good to be true. NOTE: At one point toward the end, Hazel's mom says that she's been taking online college courses and, if all goes well, will go UP to the Bloomington campus in the summer. Well, the characters live in Indianapolis... so... if they were to go to IU Bloomington from there, they'd be driving SOUTH (i.e. DOWN). The author lives in Indy, so I don't know why he wouldn't know this... unless he's refering to one of IU's satellite campuses in Northern Indiana...]
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Lerangis, Peter. (2013). The colossus rises. New York: HarperCollins.
[Reviewing for ACL...]
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