Saturday, September 4, 2010

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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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Book Review | Blog Blazers by Stephane Grenier

Blog Blazers by Stephane Grenier is a series of interviews of top bloggers who reveal the secrets of their success

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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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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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Book Review | The Moon in Deep Winter by Lee Polevoi

The Moon in Deep Winter by Lee Polevoi is a strange and harrowing tale of a young man trying to keep his family from imploding.

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