The people we love get under our skin and crawl through out veins and find their way into our heart. They choke up our blood flow and mess up our breathing and tangle themselves through out bodies like wire. Like razors, like fire.
– Katrina Leno, The Half Life of Molly Pierce, page 67
Version:
Hardcover, 231 pages
Published July 8th 2014 by HarperTeen
I wonder how long he’ll be sad. I wonder if his sadness will last forever, stretching on like an ocean. Drowning everyone he cares about. Drowning people he doesn’t even know. He won’t be able to control it. Oceans ebb and flow as they wish. They cover everything. They make everything blue.
– Katrina Leno, The Half Life of Molly Pierce, page 67
Version:
Hardcover, 231 pages
Published July 8th 2014 by HarperTeen
The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is amazing! I don’t have anything really coherent to say yet, but it was so amazing and everyone should read it!
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
You know, I didn’t go into this book with high hopes, but I was pleasantly surprised. I expected something incredibly dry and boring, but Sales perfectly blended fact and drama to create a very interesting read about a strange (and sometimes ridiculous) tale.
If you are curious about the events of the case, or just love Hollywood scandal, I recommend this book to you.
So many private schools beat around the bush with names like Dalton and Spence, why not just say what it is? Crosley School for Rich Kids, or the Teeter School for Troublemakers, Lionsfront Last Chance Before Juvie Academy.
– Judy Greer, I Don’t Know What You Know Me From, page 5
Version:
Hardcover, 235 pages
Published April 8th 2014 by Doubleday
I Don’t Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer
I just couldn’t make myself keep reading. This book is like having a stranger’s grandmother tell you stories about them, only they only want to tell the mundane stories like “one time they stole a cookie and I told them to put it back”. I really wanted to enjoy it, and the prologue seems really promising, but it’s just boring.
I won’t rate this one because I only made it about 40 pages before I gave up; I’ll just say: There are way better celebrity memoirs out there. I wouldn’t bother with this one if I were you.
Not a realistic wish, as anyone could have told him — but I would not be the one to say so. Why limit your dreams, after all? Why not hope for the grandest and the best?
– Sharon Shinn, The Dream-Maker’s Magic, page 261
Version:
Paperback, 288 pages
Published March 13th 2008 by Speak
I had another thought as I stood there, trying desperately to understand a completely altered view of my existence. Someday I might be the one to offer kindness to someone else in grim and dire circumstances. Someday I might be the one with wealth or knowledge or strength or power that could be used to alleviate another person’s distress. Such a thought had literally never crossed my mind before. More than once I had been saved. Someday I might save someone else in return.
– Sharon Shinn, The Dream-Maker’s Magic, page 85
Version:
Paperback, 288 pages
Published March 13th 2008 by Speak
This is so frustrating!
I have so many options and yet I just sit here, staring at my shelves, completely uninspired…
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