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Club Monstrosity
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by Jesse Petersen (Goodreads Author)
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How to Be a Woman
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The Blinding Knife
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by Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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Oz Reimagined by John Joseph Adams
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The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig
The Blue Blazes (Mookie Pearl, #1)
by Chuck Wendig (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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Club Monstrosity by Jesse Petersen
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Thieves' Quarry by D.B. Jackson
Thieves' Quarry
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Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1)
by Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
read in February, 2013
First, I want to remind you that this is a YA series. That means that this book has a totally different feel than the Parasol Protectorate series. This book lacks Alexia’s acerbic wit (I’m sure Sophronia will develop hers in time) and the more adult...more
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Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
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Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill

Madeleine L'Engle
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
Madeleine L'Engle

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”
Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

Anaïs Nin
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anaïs Nin

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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2013 Reading Challenge
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Melissa has read 26 books toward her goal of 65 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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Melissa has completed her goal of reading 75 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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