false 27 486 456 true 5621474 read 1 true 5621086 currently-reading 29 true 5621066 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78963460 to: City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, #1) by Cassandra Clare
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78962983 to: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Hardcover) by Phillip Hoose
I can't say that this was the best book of the year for young people (as the National Book Foundation thought), but it was certainly a great book. Illuminating a story that I had never heard - the young girl who fought the Montgomery bus system *before* Rosa Parks - and at the same time giving me a nice refresher course in some of the details of the Montgomery bus boycott and the legislation that went on. Very well written too. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78542006 to: If I Stay (Hardcover) by Gayle Forman
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74102128 to: The Little Door Slides Back (Paperback) by Jeff Clark
My knowledge of poetry pretty much ends with modernism (which is how far I got in school - I focused on fiction), so I don't think i have the words to describe this book, but just on a visceral level this really got me. Blow-notes, If I Don't Return, and Marie-Pristine were some of my favorites, but they were mostly all great. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78085284 to: The Murder Game (Paperback) by Janice Harrell
An opening so full of clunky exposition that I almost stopped reading 10 pages in, and a resolution (including the solving of the murder) that is equally painful sandwich about 100 pages of really excellent, psychologically based mystery. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75613310 to: Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Strout
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77672793 to: Hector (ebook) by K.I. Hope
I won't pretend to be objective (Kristen is a friend), but this book is incredibly powerful book. I have many thoughts that would give away parts of the book - so if anyone reads it and wants to know what I think, just send me a message. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76632121 to: Best Horror of the Year 1 (Paperback) by Ellen Datlow
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While the artwork is somewhat primitive, the visual conception and its translation of Auster's text into imagery is better than almost anything I've seen in the graphic novel genre. ]]>