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Entries from October 2005

Book ‘n movie roundup

October 26th, 2005 · 6 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, C told me I wasn’t allowed to read post-apocalyptic science fiction anymore. I had recently read Green Angel by Alice Hoffman (sort of a YA post-9/11 parable about lost souls in a destroyed world) and Pretties by Scott Westerfeld (the sequel to Uglies, about a post-apocalyptic “utopia” in which [...]

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Amish teens and cancer!

October 2nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

This post is for all of you who read Lurlene McDaniel books when you were a kid. She’s the one who wrote Six Months to Live, Goodbye Doesn’t Mean Forever, and assorted other books in which someone dies, usually of cancer, and either the dying teenager or the surviving teenage loved one Comes to [...]

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