(I wish this review was better timed, as this book takes place in the summer and was in fact published in May, but I love camp books year-round and I hope some of you do too.)
Ah, camp books. How I love you!
Sam’s best friend Mal is revolting head over disgusting heels in love for the [...]

The main character in CASTRATION CELEBRATION is Olivia, a 17 year old who walked in on her professor father messing around with one of his students. She is on a rampage about the poor behavior of sex-crazed men, and, as she is attending a fine arts summer camp at Yale, has decided to use the [...]

::tap, tap:: is this thing on?
I’m back from “vacation”; let’s see if we can get this going again.
(I read this in galley, but it came out at the end of May.)
Every once in awhile a book comes along that makes me realize that to enjoy some things, you really have to be 12 years old. [...]

When I picked up this galley, I wasn’t aware that it was a sequel. Somehow we missed the first one at my former job, and I do mean missed: I think we would have sold THE PUZZLING WORLD OF WINSTON BREEN quite well in hardcover. Well, now they’ll sell it quite well in paperback, and [...]

James is a hardcore anti-consumerist. He takes the bus, wears used clothing, and wants to overthrow the oil companies. And probably the government. Maybe the world. He wants big change, and he wants it now. He’s incredibly frustrated by the people around him at school and at home, especially his ex-girlfriend Sadie. She likes to [...]

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Jessica Day George’s website says that the upcoming DRAGON SPEAR is the last of the books she will write about Creel and her dragon friends, and now I am VERY VERY MAD at Jessica Day George. Stop writing if the books seem in danger of starting to suck, yes, but THAT IS [...]