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Adam Burgess
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 4 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting & believable. It is sometime in the future, on planet Earth, and something rather terrible has happened. For reasons not explained (though one… Continue Reading “Review: The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau”
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini Final Verdict: 3.25 out of 4.0 YTD: 2 Plot/Story: 3 – Plot/Story is interesting and believable 15-year-old Craig is having problems. He sees a psycho-pharmacologist and psychologist regularly, he takes Zoloft, smokes pot, can’t eat,… Continue Reading “Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini”
Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 1 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful If you can imagine a marriage between the coy, tongue-in-cheek, clever mysteries of Agatha Christie and the melancholic, whimsical, romantic lyricism of… Continue Reading “Review: Under the Poppy by Kathe Koja”
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Final Verdict: 3.75 out of 4.0 YTD: 62 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War is a story about the all too typical physical and psychological warfare that takes place in high schools,… Continue Reading “Review: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Final Verdict: 4.0 out of 4.0 YTD: 61 Plot/Story: 4 – Plot/Story is interesting/believable and impactful Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is early-19th Century Russian life, in print. It is a social, political, and military tale of epic… Continue Reading “Review: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy”
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