Archive for May, 2011
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
My Rating: 5 stars The face that was once behind the circular glasses and brandishing a wand at the evils of the Wizarding World is now up on a Broadway stage wearing a suit and an electric-blue bowtie. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, known as the “Boy Who Lived”, on the big screen adaptations […]
Posted: May 30th, 2011 under How to Succeed in Business.
Tags: Broadway, Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter, How to Succeed in Business, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, musical, review
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Linger by Maggie Steifvater
My Rating: 2 stars **If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!** To be honest, I only got to about page 100 of this book. It failed to grab my attention from the first page. I think one of the problems was that every chapter – and sometimes in the middle of the chapter – […]
Posted: May 25th, 2011 under Maggie Stiefvater.
Tags: Linger, Maggie Steifvater, review, Shiver, teen
Comments: 9
The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
My Rating: 2 stars Okay. So, I didn’t read this whole book. I got to about 120 pages into the book and completely lost interest. The only thing I kind of liked about the book was the plot. The book was about a girl who had this kind of “sixth sense” of detecting the dead. […]
Posted: May 15th, 2011 under Kimberly Derting.
Tags: Kimberly Derting, review, teen, The Body Finder
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To Kill a Mockingbird
My Rating: 5 stars I don’t think I can describe how much I loved watching this movie. I got to watch it in school, and I feel like some of the kids didn’t enjoy the movie as much as I did. The movie was almost exactly like the book, but with few plot changes to […]
Posted: May 10th, 2011 under Movies.
Tags: Harper Lee, Movies, review, teen, To Kill a Mockingbird, To Kill a Mockingbird movie
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If I Stay by Gayle Forman
My Rating: 5 stars Just when Mia thinks everything is going somewhat okay, her life ends…literally. In a terrible car accident with her parents and younger brother, Mia thinks she’s okay at first; that she is the only one who survived. But then she sees the paramedics carrying her body away. As she is in […]
Posted: May 4th, 2011 under Gayle Forman.
Tags: Gayle Forman, If I Stay, review, teen
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