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075) Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
by Rick Geary, finished November 3- This is part of the same series of fact-based graphic novels as the Lizzie Borden book from earlier in the week. Also like Lizzie, it's dry but reasonably interesting with a good use of shadow. And they both are based on purported anonymous diaries from the time from interested observers. I'm too lazy to look into it, but I consider the possibility of so many recently uncovered diaries to be a gimmick rather than a fact.
If you only read one of these books, read this one. If you don't read any of them, you'll survive.
074) Summer of Love
by Debbie Drechsler, finished November 3- Boy. I'm sure glad I'm not a teenager. And I'm really glad that when I was a teenager, I had a strict no-girls policy for myself. Sheez.
073) The Borden Tragedy
by Rick Geary, finished October 31- The back of this book lays out the Striking Similarities between Lizzie Borden and O.J. Simpson. And this book does make it plain that nothing is plain in the Borden case. But the telling was dry. Even worse, I think I've read it before....
Stop me if you see me checking it out again.
072) To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee, finished October 29- My classes have been reading this which was a great opportunity to reread it myself--first time since I was also a high school freshman.
The book's as good as I remember, but from my current perspective, I can notice a couple clumsy lines that scream First Novel! But that doesn't take away from its power.
I just read on Wikipedia yesterday that Lee's second novel was stolen from her home in 1970. This makes me very sad.
(ps: this copy
's much prettier)071) Monster
by Walter Dean Myers, finished October 26- For months and months now, kids--mostly teenaged boys--mostly teenaged boys who otherwise claim to hate reading--have recommended this book to me as hella raw and pretty much the best book ever. And so I've now read it for myself. And I'm surprised. I knew it was about a boy--a teenaged boy--on trial for murder. What I expected was that he would be a vicious killer, a hardened gangster. But what Steve actually is is a kid swept away by events, who (may have) done something stupid and now might lose his life over it. I didn't expect a book with so much subtlety and humanity. Even with all the medals on the cover, I didn't expect to feel so much for the "hero".
What I've learned: I had no idea what hella raw could really mean.
....previously in 2007....
070) Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, finished October 15069) Whirligig
by Paul Fleischman, finished October 15068) Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Silver Spider
by Robert Arthur, finished October 12067) Characters and Viewpoint
by Orson Scott Card, finished October 12066) Hybrids
by Robert J. Sawyer, finished October 6065) How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Orson Scott Card, finished October 1064) Downy Duck Grows Up
by Adda Mai Sharp and Epsie Young, finished September 30063) Humans
by Robert J. Sawyer, finished September 28062) Hominids
by Robert J. Sawyer, finished September 23061) Making Comics
by Scott McCloud, finished August 20060) Tales of the Black Widowers
by Isaac Asimov, finished September 14059) The Pearl
by John Steinbeck, finished September 11 and again on September 12058) The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4
by Darby Conley, finished September 3057) Brother Brigham
by D. Michael Martindale, finished August 29056) The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
by Isaac Asimov, finished August 27055) Ode To Kirihito
by Osamu Tezuka, finished August 20054) Polygamy Was Better Than Monotony
by Paul Bailey, finished August 10053) Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, finished August 7052) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling, finished July 24051) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by J. K. Rowling, finished July 21050) The Ruins
by Scott Smith, finished July 13049) Favorite Stories
by Margret Rey, illustrated by H.A. Rey, finished July 12048) Criss Cross
by Lynne Rae Perkins, finished July 2047) Flight Volume Three
edited by Kazu Kibuishi, finished June 27046) Nobody Is Perfick
by Bernard Waber, finished June 14045) First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers
by Donald Newlove, finished June 12044) The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking, finished June 11043) Dune
by Frank Herbert, finished June 9042) The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
by Thomas Cahill, finished June 8041) The Roald Dahl Omnibus
by Roald Dahl, finished June 6040) Troll: A Love Story
by Johanna Sinisalo, finished May 31039) The End
by Lemony Snicket, finished May 23038) The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962
by Charles M. Schultz, finished May 22037) The Penultimate Peril
by Lemony Snicket, finished May 21036) The Grim Grotto
by Lemony Snicket, finished May 18035) The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde, finished May 15034) Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman, finished May 14033) Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006
by Chip Kidd, finished May 9032) Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë, finished May 7031) The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960
by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 25030) Devils & Demons
edited by Marvin Kaye, finished April 23029) Talk Talk Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech
by Jay Ingram, finished April 23028) Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman, finished April 20027) The Long Chalkboard: and Other Stories
by Jennifer Allen and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, finished April 19026) Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis, finished April 19025) Frank
by Jim Woodring, finished April 12024) The Complete Concrete
by Paul Chadwick, finished April 3023) The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
by Vivian Vande Velde, finished March 30022) Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson, finished March 28021) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller et al, finished March 23020) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers, finished March 16019) Batman: Gothic
by Grant Morrison et al, finished March 13018) Wild at Heart
by John Eldredge, finished March 7017) Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
by Megan McDonald, finished March 7016) 50 Professional Scenes for Student Actors: A Collection of Short 2 Person Scenes
by Garry Michael Kluger, finished March 6015) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by Pablo Neruda, finished March 5014) Frindle
by Andrew Clements, finished March 1013) Brain Wave
by Poul Anderson, finished February 27012) The Best American Comics 2006
edited by Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore, finished February 26011) Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer, finished February 15010) The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ edited by Mormon and Moroni, finished February 7
009) Lisey's Story
by Stephen King, finished February 1008) The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett, finished January 26007) Empire
by Orson Scott Card, finished January 24006) Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli, finished January 22005) Vile Bodies
by Evelyn Waugh, finished January 17004) Superman Adventures Vol. 1: Up, Up and Away!
by Mark Millar, finished January 16003) A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson, finished January 12002) Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud, finished January 11001) Galápagos
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