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Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams (Hardcover) by Jennifer Sey bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover) by Brian Selznick |
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recommended for: someone who wants to give a fantastic book to a 10-year-old boy--and enjoy it first themselves
read in November, 2007 
rory said:
"A slightly doddering older man came into my library the other day and said, "I'm looking for a book. I can't remember the author or title. It's about a boy, and there's both pictures and words...." I guessed this book and I was right. That'...more
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation) by M. T. Anderson bookshelves: for-da-youf |
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recommended for: people who wonder why we're saying it's a golden age for YA lit
read in August, 2007
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"M.T. Anderson? Can do no wrong. In any genre, in any voice, under any ambition.
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An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't (Hardcover) by Judy Jones |
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recommended for: my smart friends--all y'all
read in May, 2008
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"I don't think I'll ever really finish this, but it'll be on my bedside table for a good while. It's pretty much a text book, albeit a scattershot, funny, extra-fascinating text book. The subtitle's right--I didn't learn most of this stuff and/but I W...more
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The God Box (Hardcover) by Alex Sanchez bookshelves: for-da-youf |
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recommended for: gay teenaged boys who don't like decent prose--know any?
read in May, 2008
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"Whoah, this was one of the least well-written books I've ever encountered. I can still see its value--Sanchez has produced a whole body of work dedicated to exploring contemporary gay teens' experiences and challenges, and surely that's an important ...more
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My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park (Hardcover) by Steve Kluger bookshelves: to-read |
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What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy (Hardcover) by Gregory Maguire bookshelves: to-read |
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American Nerd: The Story of My People (Hardcover) by Benjamin Nugent (Goodreads author!) bookshelves: to-read |
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Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams (Hardcover) by Jennifer Sey bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| May 04 | ||
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Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (Hardcover) by Corey Seymour, Jann S. Wenner |
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The Coast of Chicago (Paperback) by Stuart Dybek |
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recommended to rory by:
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