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wesleysgirl32. Dealing With Disappointment: Helping Kids Cope When Things Don't Go Their Way by Elizabeth Crary. Pretty good for what it was, but I sort of wished there were more to it. It seemed insufficient somehow.
33. Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings by Colleen Curran. I love essay books, and I love books about weddings, so this was totally up my alley. As always, there were some essays I really loved and others that did less for me, but overall I thought it was really interested and I enjoyed it a lot.
34. Marked (a House of Night novel) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. A friend loaned the first few books in this series to me, and I liked the first one well enough that I've started the second. They're young adult vampire novels told in the first person. Pretty good, though unlikely that I'd ever read them more than once.
35. The Icebound Land (Ranger's Apprentice book 3) by John Flanagan. Looking for the Amazon link to this book makes me realize that there are a LOT of books in this series. The boy and I have now read the first three and are a bit into book 4. They're meant for young enough kids that I wouldn't read them on my own, and as I'm reading them aloud I can easily "hear" the places where I think a solid editor would have made a big difference to the quality of the writing. The boy is enjoying them but even at the age of 9 clearly recognizes that they aren't Spectacular Literature.
33. Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings by Colleen Curran. I love essay books, and I love books about weddings, so this was totally up my alley. As always, there were some essays I really loved and others that did less for me, but overall I thought it was really interested and I enjoyed it a lot.
34. Marked (a House of Night novel) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. A friend loaned the first few books in this series to me, and I liked the first one well enough that I've started the second. They're young adult vampire novels told in the first person. Pretty good, though unlikely that I'd ever read them more than once.
35. The Icebound Land (Ranger's Apprentice book 3) by John Flanagan. Looking for the Amazon link to this book makes me realize that there are a LOT of books in this series. The boy and I have now read the first three and are a bit into book 4. They're meant for young enough kids that I wouldn't read them on my own, and as I'm reading them aloud I can easily "hear" the places where I think a solid editor would have made a big difference to the quality of the writing. The boy is enjoying them but even at the age of 9 clearly recognizes that they aren't Spectacular Literature.
