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Moral Disorder: and Other Stories - Margaret Atwood

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

Matched - Ally Condie

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Moral Disorder: and Other Stories - Margaret Atwood

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

Matched - Ally Condie

The Maze Runner - James Dashner

All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser, Richard R. Lingeman

reviewed: Margaret Atwood - Moral Disorder

I’m not sure how to react this. This shouldn’t happen. Moral Disorder is part of a literary movement that’s close to me. Stor...

Moral Disorder: and Other Stories - Margaret Atwood

June 2016

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reviewed: Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead

Scott Card still puzzles me. Here, he’s beyond the power of editors. The writing is more dense, with more inner monologues an...

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

reviewed: Ally Condie - Matched

Describing Matched will make you run away. It’s the serious person’s worst nightmare. Think of every recent Young Adult clich...

Matched - Ally Condie

April 2016

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reviewed: James Dashner - The Maze Runner

Did Dashner ever read a book? There is potential here, but for the most part the Maze Runner is a bad narration of a video ga...

The Maze Runner - James Dashner

April 2016

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reviewed: Jennifer Niven - All the Bright Places

I read plenty of crappy books. The world is, after all, a crappy place (That’s why people kill themselves). Never have I read...

All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven

March 2016

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reviewed: John Taylor Gatto - Dumbing Us Down

Parents love to be scared. The news industry feeds on parents who want to be scared and then ‘protect’ their children. News i...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto

March 2016

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reviewed: Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy

“intermingled and furnished it in some nondescript manner which need hardly be described.”I dare you to find a funnier joke i...

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser, Richard R. Lingeman

February 2016

28

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The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

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