books

catcher in the rye by jd salinger: okay, my all time favorite

book. i first read this book when i was in seventh grade. it

totally kicks ass. it's all about this depressed guy, holden

caufield who just got kicked out of his fourth prep school or

whatever. and he doesn't feel like going home early because he

wants to avoid the parental lecture scene. so, it's only a few

days before winter break starts, so he hangs out in new york.

basically, he's just trying to figure out himself and the

world around him or whatever. but it's a great book. i swear

it is.

his dark materials (trilogy) by philip pullman: wow, pullman

is an awesome writer. if you like harry potter or the fantasy

scene, i suggest you read these books. it's supposed to be a

kids' series, but it's way too awesome to dis them on that

basis. the characters are developed so well, you feel like

you're in the story with them. well, it's an adventure story

about a girl lyra and a boy will. and there's all these people

they meet along the way: lyra's evil mother, lyra's scheming

father, an i-ching professer lady, a polar bear, a hot-air

balloonist, and... god. it's actually pretty... you could say

sacreligious or whatever, but it's still pretty good. you just

have to look at it like it's in another world (which it is).

they really are kick ass books.

the sally lockhart trilogy by philip pullman: i'm telling ya,

pullman is great. he's like this guy feminist, which is so

great. there's just something about a guy supporting women

that makes me feel happy inside. yeah... anyways... sally is

this independant woman back in late 1800's london. in each of

the three books, new characters are introduced and some of the

old ones are forgotten, but they all tie up together rather

nicely. the books are more a mystery adventure than fantasy,

but they still kick ass. (oh yeah, and pullman is totally cool

with minorities too! w00t!)

echo by francesca lia block (pretty much, just read everything

by flb ^^): wow. this book is so moving, it's hard to describe

or whatever. flb just has this way with words, like she's

spinning them into this magnificent spider's web. the kind of

spider's web that hangs in between two small trees and you can

see it through the sun and see how the dew glistens off it.

that's sort of what her writing is like. she's awesome.

anyways. echo is a girl/woman who's dad's dying and who's

mother is lost without him and she's just trying to find

herself and find love in a world where angels and demons walk

together on the sidewalks of la. it truly is beautiful. the

story together through many smaller short stories.

angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging (and three sequels) by

louise rennison:this book is so chalk-full of hilariousity!

yeah... georgia nicholson is living in a house with her

bonkers "vati" (father) and her "mutti" (mother), her psycho

cat angus and her little sister libby who likes to pee in

random corners of georgia's room. georgia's kind of ... hmm...

how shall we say this... self obsessed? but she's still pretty

funny. she's one of those teenage girls who is trying to catch

as many laughs as possible at her all girls really boring

school. but when she's in front of the guys, she's trying to

achieve mucho sophisticatedness. it's funny. just read it.

companions of the night by vivian vande velde: when kerry goes

back to the laundromat in the middle of the night to retrieve

her little brother's stuffed koala, little did she know she'd

meet a vampire. this book is basically all about kerry working

with the vampire to help find her family (who were kidnapped).

it's a muy awesome book. read it!

the seventh son series by orson scott card: osc is erin's

favorite author! and my friend, paldi, got her screen name

"heartfires" from this series! well, i don't remember these

books too much... it was a wicked long time ago... well,

there's this kid/man alvin who is the seventh son of a seventh

son, which gives him certain powers. he's wicked strong and

works well with iron or something... i don't really remember

all his little powers. but he goes on all these little

adventures and stuff. it's cool. there's another one that's

supposed to come out sometime... go read them!

the good people of new york by thisbe nissen: wow. i love new

york. anyways, the novel starts out with roz and edwin, a

totally mismatched couple. they get together and have a kid,

miranda. the story circles around miranda's growing up and her

relationships with people and stuff. the book just flows with

freedom and a sense of the need to belong (if that makes

sense). i dunno, but this book really makes you think about

your life and how meaningful everything is. totally awesome.

the china garden by liz berry: i couldn't put this book down.

i don't even remember the characters' names now, but i still

remember the plot. this girl goes with her mother to her

(dead) father's hometown (i don't remember if it was both her

parents' hometown... it might've been) during the summer. and

pretty much all the people are really strange. but the girl

still feels really connected with the place. and she finds

this beautiful china garden and she finds magic or something.

oh yeah, and she falls in love with some biker dude. it really

is an awesome and magical book. (oh wow, this review really

sucks)

a series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket: i've only

read three of these books, but can we just say that lemony

snicket kicks ass? he does. and so do these books. well, these

three kids used to have it all. they were the kids of these

millionares and they lived in a mansion and their parents were

really quite wonderful to them. but then one day, the mansion

burns down and their parents die, and their left with no one

in the world. no one, that is, except their distant cousin. an

evil conniving distant cousin with a tatoo of an eye on his

ankle. and he's trying to steal the inheritance that the

children will recieve once fourteen year old violet turns

eighteen. so, basically, in the three books that i've read,

the children are trying to outsmart their evil cousin. yeah.

snicket does caution the reader though..."If you are

interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better

off reading some other book."

RENT (the script) by jonathan larson: i know this isn't a

book, but you can get it online and print it off. and it's

wonderful. i haven't actually seen the play, but i will, i

will. i have the whole soundtrack (thanks to erin!!!!) and

it's great to listen to it and read it at the same time. i

love this play!!!!!! the story revolves mainly around mark (a

photographer) and roger (musician). roger has aids and mark is

obsessed with hiding in his work. then they meet angel

(crossdressing drummer, has aids), their friend collins (gay

anarchist profressor, has aids), mimi (dancer druggie, has

aids), maureen (bisexual actress), joann (lesbian lawyer), and

benny (old friend, yuppie, married into money and now doesn't

care about anyone else). wow, it kicks ass. it's all about the

love and accepting people for who they are, despite their

little annoying habits and such. and it's also about trying to

live life to the fullest before it's gone.

(ps. i don't mean to be prejudice by adding the characters'

sexual orientations. they are only mentioned so the reader

has a more clear idea of who goes with who. or whatever. and

to point out how controversial the play is. sorry if i have offended. -zp)

the sweep series by cate tiernan: morgan meets cal. he's

handsome and witty, but he's also a witch (wiccan). she thinks

he's the good kind of witch. (thinks being the operative word,

here). should she trust him and join his coven? the books

circle around morgan's adventures with wicca and magick.

(fictional wicca, though, but still pretty awesome). yeah...

the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky: the main

character charlie has suffered so much, but he doesn't know

it. he's ever observant and he wants to make those around him

happy instead of making himself happy. the book tackles such

themes as: loneliness, drugs, acid trips, homosexuality, sex,

family secrets, abortion, abuse, molestation, depression, and

more. it's one of those books where you want to meet the

character in real life, and well, hug him. not because you

love him or anything, but you feel connected to him. like on a

level that you feel like you've never connected with anyone in

real life before (does that make sense?). well, it's an

awesome book. go read it. i'll lend it to you (it costs

$12!!!! eep...)


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		catcher in the rye by jd salinger: okay, my all time favorite book. i first read this book when i was in seventh grade. it totally kicks ass. it's all about this depressed guy, holden caufield who just got kicked out of his fourth prep school or whatever. and he doesn't feel like going home early because he wants to avoid the parental lecture scene. so, it's only a few days before winter break starts, so he hangs out in new york. basically, he's just trying to figure out himself and the world around him or whatever. but it's a great book. i swear it is. his dark materials (trilogy) by philip pullman: wow, pullman is an awesome writer. if you like harry potter or the fantasy scene, i suggest you read these books. it's supposed to be a kids' series, but it's way too awesome to dis them on that basis. the characters are developed so well, you feel like you're in the story with them. well, it's an adventure story about a girl lyra and a boy will. and there's all these people they meet along the way: lyra's evil mother, lyra's scheming father, an i-ching professer lady, a polar bear, a hot-air balloonist, and... god. it's actually pretty... you could say sacreligious or whatever, but it's still pretty good. you just have to look at it like it's in another world (which it is). they really are kick ass books. the sally lockhart trilogy by philip pullman: i'm telling ya, pullman is great. he's like this guy feminist, which is so great. there's just something about a guy supporting women that makes me feel happy inside. yeah... anyways... sally is this independant woman back in late 1800's london. in each of the three books, new characters are introduced and some of the old ones are forgotten, but they all tie up together rather nicely. the books are more a mystery adventure than fantasy, but they still kick ass. (oh yeah, and pullman is totally cool with minorities too! w00t!) echo by francesca lia block (pretty much, just read everything by flb ^^): wow. this book is so moving, it's hard to describe or whatever. flb just has this way with words, like she's spinning them into this magnificent spider's web. the kind of spider's web that hangs in between two small trees and you can see it through the sun and see how the dew glistens off it. that's sort of what her writing is like. she's awesome. anyways. echo is a girl/woman who's dad's dying and who's mother is lost without him and she's just trying to find herself and find love in a world where angels and demons walk together on the sidewalks of la. it truly is beautiful. the story together through many smaller short stories. angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging (and three sequels) by louise rennison:this book is so chalk-full of hilariousity! yeah... georgia nicholson is living in a house with her bonkers "vati" (father) and her "mutti" (mother), her psycho cat angus and her little sister libby who likes to pee in random corners of georgia's room. georgia's kind of ... hmm... how shall we say this... self obsessed? but she's still pretty funny. she's one of those teenage girls who is trying to catch as many laughs as possible at her all girls really boring school. but when she's in front of the guys, she's trying to achieve mucho sophisticatedness. it's funny. just read it. companions of the night by vivian vande velde: when kerry goes back to the laundromat in the middle of the night to retrieve her little brother's stuffed koala, little did she know she'd meet a vampire. this book is basically all about kerry working with the vampire to help find her family (who were kidnapped). it's a muy awesome book. read it! the seventh son series by orson scott card: osc is erin's favorite author! and my friend, paldi, got her screen name "heartfires" from this series! well, i don't remember these books too much... it was a wicked long time ago... well, there's this kid/man alvin who is the seventh son of a seventh son, which gives him certain powers. he's wicked strong and works well with iron or something... i don't really remember all his little powers. but he goes on all these little adventures and stuff. it's cool. there's another one that's supposed to come out sometime... go read them! the good people of new york by thisbe nissen: wow. i love new york. anyways, the novel starts out with roz and edwin, a totally mismatched couple. they get together and have a kid, miranda. the story circles around miranda's growing up and her relationships with people and stuff. the book just flows with freedom and a sense of the need to belong (if that makes sense). i dunno, but this book really makes you think about your life and how meaningful everything is. totally awesome. the china garden by liz berry: i couldn't put this book down. i don't even remember the characters' names now, but i still remember the plot. this girl goes with her mother to her (dead) father's hometown (i don't remember if it was both her parents' hometown... it might've been) during the summer. and pretty much all the people are really strange. but the girl still feels really connected with the place. and she finds this beautiful china garden and she finds magic or something. oh yeah, and she falls in love with some biker dude. it really is an awesome and magical book. (oh wow, this review really sucks) a series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket: i've only read three of these books, but can we just say that lemony snicket kicks ass? he does. and so do these books. well, these three kids used to have it all. they were the kids of these millionares and they lived in a mansion and their parents were really quite wonderful to them. but then one day, the mansion burns down and their parents die, and their left with no one in the world. no one, that is, except their distant cousin. an evil conniving distant cousin with a tatoo of an eye on his ankle. and he's trying to steal the inheritance that the children will recieve once fourteen year old violet turns eighteen. so, basically, in the three books that i've read, the children are trying to outsmart their evil cousin. yeah. snicket does caution the reader though..."If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." RENT (the script) by jonathan larson: i know this isn't a book, but you can get it online and print it off. and it's wonderful. i haven't actually seen the play, but i will, i will. i have the whole soundtrack (thanks to erin!!!!) and it's great to listen to it and read it at the same time. i love this play!!!!!! the story revolves mainly around mark (a photographer) and roger (musician). roger has aids and mark is obsessed with hiding in his work. then they meet angel (crossdressing drummer, has aids), their friend collins (gay anarchist profressor, has aids), mimi (dancer druggie, has aids), maureen (bisexual actress), joann (lesbian lawyer), and benny (old friend, yuppie, married into money and now doesn't care about anyone else). wow, it kicks ass. it's all about the love and accepting people for who they are, despite their little annoying habits and such. and it's also about trying to live life to the fullest before it's gone. (ps. i don't mean to be prejudice by adding the characters' sexual orientations. they are only mentioned so the reader has a more clear idea of who goes with who. or whatever. and to point out how controversial the play is. sorry if i have offended. -zp) the sweep series by cate tiernan: morgan meets cal. he's handsome and witty, but he's also a witch (wiccan). she thinks he's the good kind of witch. (thinks being the operative word, here). should she trust him and join his coven? the books circle around morgan's adventures with wicca and magick. (fictional wicca, though, but still pretty awesome). yeah... the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky: the main character charlie has suffered so much, but he doesn't know it. he's ever observant and he wants to make those around him happy instead of making himself happy. the book tackles such themes as: loneliness, drugs, acid trips, homosexuality, sex, family secrets, abortion, abuse, molestation, depression, and more. it's one of those books where you want to meet the character in real life, and well, hug him. not because you love him or anything, but you feel connected to him. like on a level that you feel like you've never connected with anyone in real life before (does that make sense?). well, it's an awesome book. go read it. i'll lend it to you (it costs $12!!!! eep...)