Nerds Heart YA: My Most Excellent Year vs. Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
vs. Aren’t you excited? Today I am about to advance a book to the final round of the Nerds Heart YA Tournament. I’m a little bit surprised with the outcome. I read the first book and had only just started the second, and I clearly thought that book number two might be the winner. I [...]
My Most Excellent Year, by Steve Kluger – Book Review
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger is Recommended. In the 11th grade, friends TC, Augie and Alejandra are in Ms. LaFontaine’s English class when they are assigned to do a project detailing their “Most Excellent Year”. Each one of them decides on the 9th grade [...]
Kindred, by Octavia Butler – Book Review
Kindred, by Octavia Butler is A Must Read. Dana and Kevin Franklin are a young married couple, both writers, who have finally started making enough money from their writing to support themselves. They buy a new house in a small suburb of Los Angeles in 1976 but before they can settle in and finish unpacking, [...]
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