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Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
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Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver
Liesl and Po
by Lauren Oliver (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Binny for Short by Hilary McKay
Binny for Short
by Hilary McKay
read in May, 2013
mstan rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger
Darth Paper Strikes Back (Origami Yoda #2)
by Tom Angleberger (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
This was actually really funny, and I liked it just as much as I did the first book (even if I am not a Star Wars fan), but there's something really unrealistic about the way the teachers and principal in the school reacted to Origami Yoda and Dwight...more
mstan became a fan of Hilary McKay
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The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermoût
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Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
mstan rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Gift of Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
read in May, 2013
mstan rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
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W. Somerset Maugham
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

Alan Bennett
“Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.”
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

Joseph Addison
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
Joseph Addison

Dorothy Parker
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Dorothy Parker

Ray Bradbury
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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2013 Reading Challenge
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