The Stranger

Albert Camus

Review By: Sasha

we had to read this book in class.It's very short and translated from french. It's acharacter study of a man whose mother had just died and he has to deal with his feeling about her and things happen. At first it seems like it's going to be a pretty dull book but something BIG happens.

The book is very short and very easy to read. its a good discussion book because of what happens at the end.Without giving anything away, all i can say is that you really should consider reading this book.

The Purple Emperor

Author Herbie Brennan

Review By: Sasha

This is the sequel to Faerie Wars. Now that the emperor is dead, prygrus had to be the new emporor but he doesnt want to be. Then someone is trying to kill him. Henery tries to help but his sister stole his thing to translate...you'll understand if you read it. The book keeps you on edge. kinda. Read it if you've read Fearie Wars

Crunch Time

Mariah Fredericks

Review By: Sasha

This is a novel abot the SAT! Its about a group of kids who ditch an SAT prep class and start an SAT prep group of their own. And the book is from all of the kids points of view so you get to learn about their family life. Then *el gaspo* someone cheats on the SAT!!! Who done it?! You have to read it to find out.

This was a good book. It was kind of one of those "the people are so different from eachother you'd never expect that they'd become friends cliche type of thing but its still prett origional. I havent read another book like it, anyway. It wasnt the best book i've ever read but it was funny and anyone taking the SAT should read it.

The Frog Prince

Steven/Stephen Mitchell. I think.

Review By: Shelby

ok last part!

This book is, as expected, a retelling of the story of the frog prince. I've heard the story before "there was this frog, and a princess kissed it, and it turned into a prince, and they got married" but i thought that was it but.... this is not so.

The feeling of this story is kind of like you're invisible and you're watching the princess and frog and how their story unfolds. It's like the omniscient narrator is letting you look into his binoculars. Stalker. Anyway.

The story is nice, and the princess seems really cool (she could kick Anna Percy's arse.). However, everyone seems quite pedantic. Maybe that's the right word. Well, they seem pedantic to me. I don't get why the author felt like he had to have the narrator give all these speches about how entropy and thermodynamics don't apply to the soul and love. I've heard that kind of stuff in movies so it wasn't very appealing to me in a book. I got used to it though. It's stylistic and i bet it was hard to keep up the style like that.

read? Yeah. It's refreshing. or something.

The A-List

Zoey Dean

Review By: shelby

part deux!

This book was... well it was ok. I think i got it at a thrift store, so i didn't pay more than $1 for it, so it's ok.

The A-List, by Zoey Dean is about just that: the A-List. The main character is a girl called Anna Percy. She is skinny and blonde and rich: perfect. She moves to L.A. to live with her dad and to go to an internship. On the plane, she meets this guy, and then when she gets to L.A. she meets his friends. Who all suck. They're rich and snobby, and although one girl kind of likes Anna, she is still as much as a selfish rich kid as the rest of the troupe. In these few days, Anna gets a taste of Hollywood trash-life. She really wants to shake off her old self: perfect-little-virgin-Anna.

Well. The reason this book isn't all that great to me is because I really didn't like Anna. I thought the main character was supposed to be likeable.. or at least you're with them so much that they're significant to you. I really didn't like Anna. She was too much of a forced slag and she was mean, too. Very fake. I liked the guy from The Stranger. I didn't like Anna. Also: I don't know if it was supposed to be some sort of common thread, but everyone's dad sucked. Even Anna's--especially Anna's. Except--well that's the end but it was unbelieveable.

It was a trash novel, i guess, kinda like Gossip Girl. I still kinda want to read the sequels, just to see who Anna's going to end up with. Damn you Zoey Dean and your cliffhangers.

read? if you want, i can't stop you.

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Review By: Shelby

i might get e-yelled at by sasha for not following some sort of anal format but oh well. This is the first of three book reviews i'm going to do out of boredom and avoiding my homework.

Now. The Age of Innocence! *cue the violins*. The A of I is a novel by Edith Wharton. Its setting is in the gilded age and it's basically a classic because it's some sort of commentary on that time. The main character is Newland Archer, and basically he's a guy who can't follow his heart to save his life. He lives in high-society New York, and there are about 5 other families so those are the only people he knows. Anyway, he's supposed to get married to some chick named May. However, her cousin Ellen has just come from Europe from this divorce from some scummy Eurotrash. She and Archer predictably fall in love and oh such trouble...

We had a project on this book, and had to read some literary critics' essays to go along with it. The guy's i read said that this book is some sort of rant of Wharton's. She was mad because people were repressing change. (--this guy's name on Jeopardy is LIZARD-- ). Anyway, Edith Wharton was utterly fabulous. I read that she moved to France and wrote every morning while lying in her bed.

The girls in my group didn't like the book. Mk thought it was kinda boring, and Ad positively hated it. I think to hate this book would be the basest kind of thing a person could do.

read? yes. now.