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Alex
has challenged herself
to read 47 books in the 2012 Reading Challenge
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Alex
is on page 125 of 461 of Wendy and the Lost Boys
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Alex
voted for
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
in
Best Nonfiction
in the
Opening Round
of the
2011 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Alex
gave
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
read in May, 2011
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| This is a rich narrative about Jessica and Cesar, half-siblings who grow up with their mother Lourdes in a tough section of the Bronx. It's not spoiling anything to say that both Cesar and Jessica have multiple children by the time they're nineteen, ...more | |||||||||||
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| It took me a long time to read this book because the subject matter is quite painful. It was a bit like reading someone's journal... I felt almost guilty being privy to some of it. I think it may be the first mainstream book that intersects gay (fema...more | |||||||||||
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Alex
took the Never-Ending Book Quiz
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Let's talk about death. Not death which is inevitably part of life, but death in fiction, where it is not inevitable at all. Death in fiction is a deliberate, well-thought out decision: the writer is God, and he or she is choosing, for whatever reaso...
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| This reminded me at times of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" especially with the distinct British social commentary. And Dexter Mayhew, one of the two leads, might be more charming if interpreted by someone like Hugh Grant. On the page, he is a bit una...more | |||||||||||
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Alex
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Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
by Bret Anthony Johnston
read in May, 2010
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| I found this book highly annoying. It was the literary equivalent of those embarrassing games that are played under the guise of social "ice breaking." Lots of ideas for 10 or 20 minute exercises mixed alongside anecdotes from creative writing classe...more | |||||||||||
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