false 6 91 82 true 5662843 read 1 true 2860932 currently-reading 8 true 2860931 to-read 49 false 3283488 young-adult 20 false 3958551 family 14 false 3523417 schools 13 false 3315541 historical-fiction 10 false 3283484 science-fiction 7 false 3764337 dystopia 7 false 3414881 new-york 7 false 3653620 politics 7 false 3942565 dating 7 false 3414870 non-fiction 6 false 3639885 post-apocalyptic 6 false 3566005 identity 6 false 3688428 war 5 false 4044239 lgbt 5 false 3664610 feminism 4 false 3657633 sports 4 false 3960163 technology 4 false 3657632 fantasy 3 false 3879044 mental-health 3 false 3942552 music 3 false 3512576 biography 3 false 3516971 horror 2 false 4200331 illness 2 false 4057262 alternate-universe 2 false 4058145 fairy-tales 2 false 4057257 disaster 1 false 4057258 environment 1 false 4058146 graphic-novels http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66139322 to: If the Witness Lied (Hardcover) by Caroline B. Cooney
bookshelves: family, young-adult
I feel the best way to sum up this book is to call it "Classic Cooney" - Caroline B. Cooney has been writing young adult suspense books for ages and this one sticks close to her original formula. Read more on my blog at: http://bookishblather.blogspot.com/2009/... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66138545 to: Lost (Hardcover) by Jacqueline Davies
bookshelves: family, historical-fiction, mental-health, new-york, young-adult
This was a nice enough book (as the alt-text on the stars says, "it was ok"), that carefully weaves together a few mysteries: the true identity of an upper-crust girl who shows up to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and the fate of Essie's family being just two of the prominent ones. Essie has a strong, distinctive voice that shows through both the "contemporary" chapters and the flashback chapters about Essie's life with her little sister.

I was, however, disappointed in the scenes set in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory - or rather, the lack of scenes. If a book wants to sell itself, at least partially, on the drama of the factory and the tragic fire, it should probably spend more than half of two chapters in the factory. We're introduced to the characters in the factory, and then see the characters again in the factory when the fire breaks out, but other than that the factory just gets vague mentions, as the characters can only get together after work. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64654114 to: Columbine (Hardcover) by Dave Cullen
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62904539 Soul Enchilada (Hardcover) by David Macinnis Gill
bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62904467 to: The School For Dangerous Girls (Hardcover) by Eliot Schrefer
bookshelves: schools, young-adult
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63267714 Shelf Discovery (Paperback) by Lizzie Skurnick
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62904520 Wondrous Strange (Wondrous Strange, #1) by Lesley Livingston
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/164384-movie Angela made a comment in the Hunger Games Trilogy group:

No one has been cast for the movie yet. Lionsgate simply purchased the movie rights, and all that means is that for the foreseeable future, Lionsgate is the only company that can even consider making a film version. There's no script, no director, and certainly no cast, probably not for several more years. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/135538-gale-vs-peeta Angela made a comment in the Hunger Games Trilogy group:

Taking her in is more of a clinical term. Like when your doctor sees you naked. Or, probably in a more direct correlation, how models treat nudity. While Katniss may have felt awkward (and actually, doesn't she say that she chooses to be defiant about it? Can't check - my copy is on loan to a friend), to Cinna it would have been strictly professional, surveying the tools he had to work with to create a masterpiece the Capitol would never forget. ]]>