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		<title>Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron</title>
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I was rather torn between wanting to love this book (evocative title, colleague recommendation, a flap that begins &#8220;In re: James Sveck &#8212; eighteen-year-old New Yorker, charming, precocious, confused, doesn&#8217;t quite fit in (doesn&#8217;t really want to)&#8221;) and expecting to hate it (how very much the reviews, and the book itself, want it to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Gingerbread, by Rachel Cohn</title>
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Gingerbread bills itself as &#8220;edgy,&#8221; with cover quotes from Teen People, Elle Girl, and Twist magazines rather than other authors, and a cover featuring a punky girl with platform boots.  But it&#8217;s basically your average finding-yourself novel: Cyd hates living with her mom and stepdad, so she acts like a brat until they send [...]]]></description>
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