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		<title>Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first half of this book is slow-paced and unlike the first book.  The second half involves the Games and is fast-paced and much like the first book.  Both of these are good things.

Having come right off reading the first book, I didn&#8217;t mind that there was a bit of a slow build.  I was [...]


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		<title>The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!  I am amazed not just by this book, but the fact that finally&#8211;finally!&#8211;a book&#8211;a YA book&#8211;has lived up to its hype.

Since most everyone has read this book by now, I will first do just a short summary for the few who haven&#8217;t.
Set at least 74 years in the future (because it&#8217;s the 74th Hunger [...]


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		<title>Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8230;actually liked this book.  I had invited my Inner Teenaged Self up from the basement where she&#8217;s usually kept and we read it together.  She liked it, too.  So, here is is Inner Teenaged Self (you can picture her has having purple spikey hair, fishnet tights, and doc Martins, and that will be a pretty [...]


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		<title>L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh.  My.  Fucking.  God.  Why would anyone ever read this book?  WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?  O.K., say you&#8217;re a fan of &#8220;The Hills&#8221; or whatever (though I don&#8217;t really get that either&#8230;scripted reality?  don&#8217;t you people have enough drama in your lives?).  And say that since you&#8217;re a fan, you want to learn more [...]


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		<title>Ghost World by Daniel Clowes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is&#8230;an unhappy book with an unhappy ending, full of laugh out loud moments.  Oh how fun it is to see ourselves in others&#8217; ennui, however over-the-top it may be.

It&#8217;s funny, because some of the blurbs on the back include Vogue&#8217;s &#8220;No one has their eye&#8211;or ear&#8211;focused on youth as acutely as Daniel Clowes&#8221; and [...]


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		<title>Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dewey Decimal System!  You have failed!  This book is in the wrong section.  Sure, it&#8217;s with the other books about cartoons and comics in the 740&#8217;s, but it should be with the YA section.  The reading ages is 4-8 for crying out loud!  

When I picked it up, I didn&#8217;t really care that it seemed [...]


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		<title>The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holling Hoodhood is the only kid in his grade who is neither Catholic nor Jewish.  Consequently, he is the only kid stuck with Mrs. Baker on Wednesday afternoons when the kids go to Church or Temple to prepare for their Confirmations and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.  

Mrs. Baker, whose husband is away fighting in Vietnam.  Discerning readers [...]


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		<title>The Sea of Monsters By Rick Riordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Percy Jackson must go on a quest to save the day, along with side kick Annabeth.

Their mission this time: to save their friend Grover and bring back the Golden Fleece, from an island in the sea of monsters, which is guarded by a fearsome monster.
But this time, their quest is not sanctioned by [...]


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		<title>The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick trip to Ye Olde Wikipedia will inform you that Rick Riordan first began writing the Percy Jackson series back in 1994, ergo you can can then deduce (induce?) that the Percy Jackson series is not derivative of Harry Potter.  

Is it derivative of every epic questing, good vs. evil story in the history of stories?
Well, [...]


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		<title>American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really no wonder that this was shortlisted for the National Book Award (Young People&#8217;s category) and won the Printz award.  It&#8217;s one of those highly literary stories that trancscends the young adult or genre or the graphic novel genre.  In fact, I think it may be enhanced by them.

Three different stories are woven together, [...]


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