false 5975766 4 To Carley Wells, words are the enemy: the countless SAT lists from her tutor, the “fifty-seven pounds overweight” assessment from her personal trainer, and most of all, the “confidential” Getting To Know You assignment from her insane English teacher (whose literary terminology lessons include “Backstory is Afterbirth” and “Setting is Nobody’s Slut”). When he tells her parents that she’s answered “What is your favorite book?” with “Never met one I liked,” they become determined to fix what he calls her “intellectual impoverishment.” They will commission a book to be written for Carley that she’ll have to love—one that will impress her teacher and the whole town of Fox Glen with their family’s devotion to the arts. They will be patrons—the Medicis of Long Island. They will buy their daughter The Love Of Reading. Impossible though it is for Carley to imagine ever loving words, she is in love with a young bibliophile who cares about them more than anything. Anything, that is, but a good bottle of scotch. Hunter Cay, Carley’s best friend and Fox Glen’s resident golden boy, is becoming a stranger to her as he drowns himself in F. Scott Fitzgerald, booze, and Vicodin. When the Wellses move writer Bree McEnroy—author of a failed meta-novel about Odysseus’s voyages through the Internet—into their mansion to write Carley’s book, Carley’s sole interest in the project is its potential to distract Hunter from drinking and give them something to share. Instead, as Hunter’s behavior becomes erratic and dangerous, she finds herself drawn into the fictional world Bree has created and begins to understand for the first time the power of stories—those we read, those we want to believe in, and most of all, those we tell ourselves about ourselves. Stories powerful enough to destroy a person. Or save her. 6149015 14 5 2009 How to Buy a Love of Reading total:169|5:34|4:55|3:45|2:22|1:13| 169 582 479 81 5 4 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 21:53:11 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 21:53:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 13:27:37 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 13:30:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 21:38:20 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:39:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 06:18:15 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 06:32:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 21:10:26 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 21:10:26 -0700 2009
And that's really what this book is- deep thoughts buried in teenage angst w...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 12:06:41 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 12:43:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 13:36:52 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:36:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 12:33:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 12:39:31 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 3 2 false true Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 16:26:31 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:58:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 11:40:52 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 11:43:45 -0700 2009
Life in the upper class enclave of Fox Glen is not kind to those refusing to keep up appearances; people who are overweight, academically underachieving, and generally social outcasts. People like Carly Wells. Somehow, all of this is still bearable tha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 21:10:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 21:12:43 -0700 2009 Tanya Egan Gibson
Pages: 400
Publisher: Dutton Adult (May 14, 2009)

Rating: 4.5 stars

Fall in love with reading all over again.

To Carley Wells, words are the enemy. Her tutor’s innumerable SAT flashcards. Her personal tr...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 14:05:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 12:28:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 13:45:21 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 06:39:59 -0700 2009 BUT, there was somethin...more...]]> 2 0 false true Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 17:54:39 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 22:53:11 -0700 2009
--This could be the script for a 90210, gossip girl, or some show like that. a SPOLIDED rich girl, a guy in 12 grade with a drinking p...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 17:46:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 17:56:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 17:16:02 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 17:25:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 15 18:12:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 19:53:13 -0700 2009
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I hadn't heard anything about this book when I picked it up. I liked the cover and the idea for the book (a girl's parents commission an author to write a book to her s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 17:58:49 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:10:40 -0700 2009 Carley, the resident fat girl, loves Hunter and hates reading. Hunter loves reading and Carley but...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 09:08:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 09:13:53 -0700 2009
Q: What will her parents do to top her classmates' sweet 16 parties?
A: Hire a writer to write a book...more...]]>