Archive for January, 2012
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My Rating: 5 stars Hazel’s life has been planned out. Her diagnosis controlled her life and a tumor-shrinking medical miracle kept added a few more years to her lifetime. Hazel had cancer. She was fighting a war against it, and she knew that in the end the cancer would eventually win. Her parents – whom […]
Posted: January 28th, 2012 under John Green.
Tags: John Green, Looking For Alaska, Paper Towns, review, teen, TFIOS, The Fault in Our Stars
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Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
My Rating: 5 stars The word “perfect” itself is subjunctive. It can mean a variety of different things to different people. Something that is ugly to someone could be beautiful to another. Everyone has a different way of discovering what is “perfect” for themselves. Everyone has some place or someone that they’d rather be. For […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2012 under Ellen Hopkins.
Tags: Ellen Hopkins, Impulse, Perfect, review, teen
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Until the End by Christopher Pike
My Rating: 4 stars Four friends, Sara, Alice, Polly and Jessica plan to throw a party to commence the start of a new school year, their senior year. The party ends up being bigger than expected, but by the end, who was hooking up and who was fighting was the farthest things from their minds. […]
Posted: January 16th, 2012 under Christopher Pike.
Tags: Christopher Pike, Final Friends, review, teen, The Dance, The Graduation, The Party, Until the End
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Top Events of 2011
1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Midnight Premiere: I had been waiting for this movie for four years, and it was so fantastic to finally be able to see it. I love going to midnight premieres, especially the ones for Harry Potter and seeing everyone wearing Potter shirts and dressing up as […]
Posted: January 7th, 2012 under 2011.
Tags: 2011, American Horror Story, Chuck Palahniuk, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Honda Civic Tour, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jennifer Brown, Panic! at the Disco Fall Tour, The Pink Sweater
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