Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #48 was, of course, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling. I’m going to try to sum up my feelings on the book without giving anything away. I liked this one more than I liked the last one. So much happened in #5 that you were almost relieved when it was over. This book ended really giving me a sense of what
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Book #47 was Back Roads, by Tawni O’Dell. It was a pretty good book, but quite tragic. The whole story is tinged with a sense of foreboding. Book count: 47/50 — 94% Pages in book: 338 Page count: 16,738 15,000 page goal reached 6/14/05! I was going to hold off on choosing another book to read, because for some reason I had it in my
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Book #46 was In the Cherry Tree, by Dan Pope. This book was absolutely charming, even laced with some of the more disgusting things 12 year old boys tend to do. I found it sort of meandering and exploratory, and when summer ends, it does. Just as it should. It read like a true memoir, despite being fiction. Book count: 46/50 — 92% Pages in
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Book #45 was King’s Oak, by Anne Rivers Siddons. This book took me a while to get into. I had actually put it away with the intention of trying again later, then grabbed it again when I needed something convenient to read. Ms. Siddons tends to do a lot of set-up, and I felt like I had to plow through it before I got to
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