Joel, KJV *
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
The Deadlist Monster, by Jeff Baldwin
Hosea, KJV *
Heidi, by Joanna Spyri
Waiting for Normal, by Leslie Connor
Daniel, KJV *
Patron Saint of Butterflies, Cecilia Galante
Rapunzel's Revenge, Shannon & Dean Hale
Framed, by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Ezekiel, KJV *
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville*
Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
*denotes a title I resolved to read this year
4 comments:
you read Jellicoe Road!!
YES!!!! (review coming)
Wow! Moby Dick. Had you had trouble sleeping or something? Good for you. Not an easy task. And I agree with you somewhat on Waiting for Normal, but it's amazing how many students do have lives with unfortunate casts of characters. I think reading problem novels makes teens feel better, but they are not my favorite thing.
Thanks for stopping by, Ms. Yingling.
I'm actually on a classics spree, so Moby Dick was just part of 2008's line up ... other books I've finished include War and Peace, Bleak House, Paradise Lost... you get the idea. :)
I certainly understand that many students have unfortunate lives and find solace in novels with dysfunctional characters. That was not my problem with Waiting for Normal. I just finished Melina Marchetta's Jellicoe Road. I'm in love, heart and soul. And guess what? Jellicoe's cast includes 1 (one) resilient girl, 1 (one) character who dies (preferably of cancer), 1 (one) dysfunctional parent.
But Marchetta's _writing_ pulls those characters out of the dime-a-dozen pit and creates a novel that _lives_.
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