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It is really interesting reading this after being thoroughly obsessed with The Hunger Games. You can see, actually, how The Hunger Games might have evolved from Suzanne Collins earlier works. There is the simple things like repeats of names and descr
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| I feel like I owe this book another good read. I don't think I got a sense of it during my first read because it was given to me as a gift at the end of my internship in India and I read it to pass the time as I traveled in Nepal and back home to Ame ...more | |
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| This second book of the "secret" series is much weaker than the first. The first was different and more creative than the other Enid Blyton books, but the remainder of the series falls into her usual pattern. Which is a pattern I love, obviously, but I was ...more | |
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| Heard about this on the Diane Rehm show. The author was very eloquent about his arguments against the word and about giving the history behind the word. Sounds great. | |
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I think this book is lesser known, but if you get a chance to read it, do. I loved this collection of short stories by Dahl. The title story was my favorite because, similar to the Matilda books, I imagined that I too could learn to train my eye ...more |
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| I came to the "secret" series late, but I think this may be one of my new favorite children's adventure books. It was different from the other adventure series because the main characters, four children, actually run away in the book, which leads the ...more | |
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Stephen King only writes scary fiction. That sentence is not true. This is definitely my favorite book from my Stephen King phase and its a book that does not fit his horror genre. A collection of four short stories, titled after each season, this bo ...more |
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| When I was younger, my parents thought the biggest threat of punishment they could make was "I'll send you off to boarding school!" Thanks to the Malory Towers (and St. Clare's) series, this threat had absolutely no weight. I thought boarding school ...more | |
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| I'm not as big of a fan of the Secret Seven as I am of the Famous Five and the Five Find-Outers, etc. I think it is because it was written for a younger set (I mean, not that the rest of her books were written for 25-year-olds), so younger children a ...more | |
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There has been a rise in the number of popular fiction written by South Asian females. The purpose of this group is to recommend some good reads, shar ...more
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