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Latest tagged entries for 'FICTION'



The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Thursday, 1 February 2007 6:26 P GMT-05
Review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Harrowing

Monday, 9 October 2006 10:34 A GMT-05
Review of The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

The Quail Club

Sunday, 2 April 2006 10:19 A GMT-05
Review of The Quail Club

Snitch (Orca Soundings)

Sunday, 27 November 2005 12:36 P GMT-05
Sometimes, telling is the right thing to do.

Breathless (Orca Soundings)

Sunday, 27 November 2005 12:20 A GMT-05
Review of Breathless (Orca Soundings)

Yellow Line (Orca Soundings)

Sunday, 27 November 2005 12:08 A GMT-05
Racism rears it's ugly head

Home Invasion (Orca Soundings)

Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:49 P GMT-05
Breaking and entering helps a teen cope with divorce of his and remarriage of his mother - at what expense?

Wounded #1 (The Wereling)

Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:08 A GMT-05
Review of Wounded #1 (The Wereling)

Are We There Yet?

Sunday, 16 October 2005 4:30 P GMT-05
Two brothers travel through Venice, Florence and Italy, with these bella locales becoming a rich background for their inner journeys.

The Manny (Skinny Book)

Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:54 P GMT-05
Less juicy than the Au Pairs

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Sunday, 14 August 2005 9:33 P GMT-05
Scott Hudson, an ordinary guy anxious about being a freshman, somehow manages to have an extraordinary year as he tries to get Julia, the girl of his dreams to notice him by pursuing her through her extracurricular activities. Humor abounds.

Prep: A Novel

Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:09 P GMT-05
A coming-of-age story told by a midwestern girl atracted to the idyllic New England boarding school life by the glossy catalogs.

Bad Girls

Saturday, 6 August 2005 11:03 A GMT-05
Lord of the Flies, MTV style (scantily clad and gratuitous langauge and violence)

Doing It

Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:53 P GMT-05
Although Doing It made this reviewer swallow and blush several times, in truth it is about as sexy as a how-to manual and more crude talk than hot action.

Boy Proof

Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:47 P GMT-05
Prickly Victoria (aka Egg) proudly eschews mainstream fashions and pop culture and prides herself on her enigma-loner status, but when a transfer student who turns out to be her academic equal arrives and makes friendly overtures, she finds herself r

Upstream

Thursday, 4 August 2005 9:32 P GMT-05
Lovely, sad heartache.

Jailbait

Thursday, 4 August 2005 9:12 P GMT-05
A naive loner is sucked into an inappropriate relationship with a strange older man who abuses her sexually and verbally.

Girls for Breakfast

Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:06 P GMT-05
This amusing memoir-style novel chronicles the proganist's early development and interest in the opposite sex. Humor ensues.

Teach Me

Wednesday, 20 July 2005 10:51 P GMT-05
Disturbing. But good! But disturbing.

Looking For Alaska

Monday, 18 July 2005 10:40 P GMT-05
Boarding school is the scene of many firsts for Pudge - first time away from home, first love, and inevitably, first loss.

Ready or Not : An All-American Girl Novel

Monday, 18 July 2005 6:21 P GMT-05
The author is much more successful in this book than in the previous in developing a character that is more than the anti-Mia.

Played

Sunday, 10 July 2005 1:51 P GMT-05
Played breaks boundaries by opening a dialogue about sexual ethics. Suave singer and seducer Ian accepts a challenge to get a nobody girl to sleep with him in three weeks.

Sandpiper

Thursday, 7 July 2005 11:00 P GMT-05
How do you recover a bad reputation, whether it's for unintentional murder or for giving blow jobs?

Queen Of The Toilet Bowl (Orca Currents)

Monday, 30 May 2005 8:50 P GMT-05
Renata’s family has moved from Sao Paolo to the United States in search of a better life. Her mother works hard cleaning houses for her “ladies,” some of whom are the mothers of Renata’s spoiled classmates. When Renata steals the spotlight fr

Juice (Orca Soundings)

Saturday, 28 May 2005 10:19 A GMT-05
Michael "the Moose" Monroe has just been named MVP of the year for a season's worth of sacks, playing with heart, and scoring the winning touchdown at the Division Two championship game, but the victory is bittersweet when his a coach and m