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Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

Suspect, by Kristin Wolden Nitz

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Thistle

The summer before Jen’s senior year, she goes to help out at her grandmother’s Bed & Breakfast in Missouri. Every summer, a mystery group comes together to put on a mystery weekend at the hotel, where everyone plays a role … Continue reading →

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Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Thistle

Hurrah! I have found poetry that spoke to me, poetry that I understood, poetry that I enjoyed! Loved, in fact. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, you wonderful poet! You have proved that my search for poetry that I can connect with was … Continue reading →

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Up from the Blue, by Susan Henderson

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Thistle

Tillie’s life was ripped apart when she was eight years old. Her mother, suffering from a depression her family doesn’t understand, suddenly disappears when the family moves across the country. Tillie tries to investigate, suspecting her father of a crime, … Continue reading →

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Winter’s End, by Jean-Claude Mourlevat

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Thistle

It’s difficult to summarize this book. I suppose, in short, it’s about a group of kids who escape from a tyrannical boarding school and join a resistance movement against their totalitarian government. I got the book, which translated from the … Continue reading →

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The Kid Table, by Andrea Seigel

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Thistle

I got an ARC of this book at BEA. My copy doesn’t have any cover art, but instead lists the three rules for the kid table: 1. You’re a kid until the adults say you’re not.* You can drive, but … Continue reading →

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Thistle

Edward Tulane is a china rabbit who belongs to a young girl named Abilene. He is vain and self-centered, ignoring the people around him when they talk to them, always thinking about himself. Then one day, he is separated from … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Eve, by Mary Orr

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Thistle

Margo Crane is a big star on Broadway, and she never expects that the quiet, mousy girl named Eve who worms her way into Margo’s confidence is actually an aspiring actress prepared to run over anyone who stands in her … Continue reading →

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Theatre, by William Somerset Maugham

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Thistle

Theatre is a spin on the old classic tale of the kept woman. Instead of a rich married man keeping a young mistress who wheedles him for favors, gifts, and money while pretending to take them only reluctantly, it’s a … Continue reading →

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Metropole, by Ferinc Karinthy

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Thistle

Budai steps through the wrong door at the airport, so that his flight takes him not to Helsinki, where he’s expected at a conference, but to a vast and unknown city filled with hoards of people all speaking different languages. … Continue reading →

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Rowan the Strange, by Julie Hearn

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Thistle

Note: I read this book for Nerds Heart YA, an underrepresented YA reading match, which is why this review is set up in this manner. Pre-Read Thoughts Cover: No doubt about it, this has got to be the worst cover … Continue reading →

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