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2009-11-06T23:23:58Z

Finished The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer. This is a companion book to Life As We Knew It. Alex lives with his parents and two younger sisters in New York City. When the asteroid hits the moon, his mom is at work (she works in a ho...

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2009-11-06T03:33:51Z

Finished Finding Purpose Beyond Our Pain by Paul Meier and David L. Henderson for Thomas Nelson. The thesis with this book is that hard times can either bring you closer to God or drive you farther from God. When bad things happen, it tends to b...

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2009-11-05T22:13:35Z

Finished Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. This book is told through a series of diary entries. Miranda is a normal teenager, living with her mom and two brothers (one older, one younger). There are two noteworthy events for her at first...

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2009-11-03T18:57:09Z

Finished Fallen by Lauren Kate (this is a review copy; it comes out December 8). Luce (short for Lucinda) is about to start school at Sword & Cross (a sort of cross between boarding school and an alternative school for troubled and/or dangerous c...

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Year of Readers, October edition

2009-11-01T03:34:18Z

Here's how I'm doing so far: Books read in October: 37 (I know, but I had two little vacations and I also read three books that consisted of six-word memoirs) Books read in 2009 so far : 223 Money raised so far: $350.35 (mostly promised; $100...

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2009-11-01T03:26:09Z

Finished How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford. I completely adored this book. It's set in Baltimore (and there are parts in Ocean City and it mentions my beloved Haunted House there!) and is about Bea, a new girl in Baltimore, and Jo...

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2009-11-01T02:44:07Z

Finished Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, edited by Smith Magazine. Yup, still love this idea. :) My favorites: "I'd rather be watching a movie." "Never really finished anything, except cake." "Discov...

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2009-10-31T20:44:38Z

Finished Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, edited by Smith Magazine. This book obviously focused on the good and bad of love and relationships. My favorite good ones: "In his eyes I saw forever" and "May I have the last dance?" My favorite...

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Justice Project

2009-10-31T00:34:27Z

I got this from Viral Bloggers and it's very interesting so far. I don't want to gulp these essays down, so I'm going to say a little now and then whenever I finish, I'll discuss it in more depth. The general gist is that working for justice is o...

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2009-10-30T17:42:28Z

Finished Whip It by Shauna Cross. (Apparently formerly called Derby Girl.) This is now the movie with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore. It's pretty appropriate that Ellen Page plays Bliss (narrator and main character) because she's basically Juno ...

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