Slow Beginnings
Amanda The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Yesterday I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. What a fantastic book. I wasn’t sure when I started it, since…
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Morality and Race
To Kill a Mockingbird I know it’s odd that I never read this book in high school, because most people do. It’s a pretty standard piece of literature that’s read…
Shakespeare and School
So I haven’t actually finished To Kill a Mockingbird yet, because I’ve been so crazy busy with stuff for school. I’m about 3/4 of the way through it, and it…
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a book that I’ve been wanting to read for awhile. Other books have come…
Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1) To be honest, I finished this book a few days ago, but I haven’t really had the time to write about it because…
Reincarnation
All You Desire (Eternal Ones) Everyone has heard of reincarnation, correct? When you die, you come back as something or someone else. It’s a concept that I don’t personally believe…
Taking Technology to Another Level
iBoy What would it be like if you had all the capacities of an iPhone in your brain? It’d be pretty spectacular, wouldn’t it? That’s what happens to Tom Harvey,…
Sisters and Friends
Henry’s Sisters Before I read (or finished) Lord of the Flies, I had to read Henry’s Sisters by Cathy Lamb for our book club. And that was quite an interesting…
A Confusing Swamp Story
Chime You know those stories where the narrator constantly refers to something that you have no idea what it is? And then you don’t figure out until the end what…
Addressing an Issue
Bumped According to this website the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate out of all industrialized countries. The Center for Disease Control says that one-third of teens get…