From the back cover: You can't help but feel sorry for Alice Thrift, who has recently tumbled from the top of her Harvard Medical School class to the probationary wing of her student internship. It doesn't help that her social skills cause her mother to suggest she might be slightly autistic. So when Ray Russo, a social-climbing purveyor of carnival fudge, dedicates himself … [Read more...] about The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman: A-
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Twilight by Meg Cabot: B
From the back cover: Suze Simon finds it difficult to come across as an average teenager when she's constantly visited by ghosts. Suze is a mediator, you see. And her boyfriend Jesse is, well, a ghost himself—from the 19th century! Fellow mediator Paul Slater has figured out how to travel through time and alter Jesse's future so he and Suze will never meet, leaving Suze in a … [Read more...] about Twilight by Meg Cabot: B
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber: B
From the back cover: How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, a fairy story, or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three. It is beautiful and it is comic. It is philosophical and it is cheery. What we suppose we are trying fumblingly to say is, in a word, that it is Thurber. There are only a few reasons why everybody has always wanted to read this kind of … [Read more...] about The 13 Clocks by James Thurber: B
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines: A-
From the back cover: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman has sold over a million copies nationwide since its publication in 1971, making the fictional character of Miss Jane so real many people don't know she exists only in the imagination of Louisiana-born author Ernest J. Gaines. Miss Jane is over 100 years old when she is interviewed by an area high school teacher … [Read more...] about The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines: A-
Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones: C+
From the inside flap: Is it fair to be mad, mad, mad at your boyfriend for being gay? Anything but straight in small town Maine won't exactly be a walk in the park, even for invincible Dylan. But can't heartbroken Belle whine just a little? What's a girl to do when her perfect soulmate says Goodbye Belle, Hello Bob? For starters, she makes a list on how to deal. Review: I … [Read more...] about Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend by Carrie Jones: C+