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Monthly Archives: December 2008


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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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3 stars

Book Review | Just In Case by Meg Rosoff

The novel starts out in the bedroom of David Case; a teenage boy with a baby brother. A baby brother who decides that he wants to be a bird and stands a little too close to the window ledge. In that moment David loses his childhood innocence – his lack of fear – and starts to think what if…?

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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Book Review | Lord of the Flies by William Golding

This was another book that I picked up for the Classics Challenge, and I can’t actually believe I’ve reached the wise old age of 32 without reading it! I always thought Lord of the Flies was just a book about a group of young boys stuck on a desert island — but as is usually the case with esteemed classics it is so much more than that!

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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Book Review | Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I have to admit that I was dreading reading this novel — but I was pleasantly surprised! It’s in no way old and stuffy and full of hard to read language as some classics are, in fact if you didn’t know the author you could quite easily mistake it for a modern day story (in an olden day setting obviously!).

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Sunday, December 7, 2008
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5 stars

Book Review | Dating da Vinci by Malena Lott

Rating
5 stars – chick lit at its finest – with a handsome Italian thrown in for good measure!
When Ramona becomes a widow at the age of 34 her world comes crashing down around her, and the only thing that keeps her getting out of bed in the morning are her two young sons. That is [...]

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