Edited by Dana Stabenow
Read: Sept/Oct 2008 (review finalized May 2009)
Rating: Abysmal
It was a noble goal. Dana Stabenow writes sci fi/fantasy, and when someone suggested she try her hand at a mystery competition she laughed. But she said she’d try and it turned into a story. It was too long for the competition and she refused [...]

By Meg Rosoff
Read: August 2006, December 2009 (review stands)
Rating: Awesome
I loved this book. I finished it within a day because it was so good. It was recommended to me by my good friend Sreya and she was so right.
The novel is narrated by Daisy, a girl who grew up in New York under inauspicious circumstances. [...]

By Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Read: April 2006
Rating: Headspinner
And you though 1984 was tough. V For Vendetta takes Orwell as a jumping point and sets everything on its ear. I haven’t seen the movie, but I really hope it makes more sense than this fast-paced graphic novel.
I was given this as a holiday gift. It [...]

By George Orwell
Rating: Phwoar
Read: April 2006
I read this once before, in junior year of high school. I didn’t like it so much then. But now I’m in awe, sort of like the JK Rowling phenomenon. I really like it this time. And I’m amazed by the theory and complexity. It is so COOL.
I still hate [...]

By Ray Bradbury
Rating: Hmm
Read: May 2006
In the last month I’ve upped by reading significantly. School put a severe dent in things, but I’m going to play catch up this summer. One of the things I’ve been meaning to do is actually read some of the classics. This is one of them. It’s part of the [...]

By Stephen King as Richard Berman
Rating: Swift
Read: April 2006
When looking for decent shortish novels, both my teacher and my father suggested early Stephen King novels. I was wary of it, since he doesn’t have a great contemporary reputation in my house, but I got this one at the gorgeous Jefferson Market Library and finished it [...]

By Piers Anthony
Rating: Frabjous
Read: approx. 1998 (age 12), reread August 2005.

I first read the Incarnations of Immortality when I was about 12, and I remember enough to know that I didn’t comprehend nearly as much as I will now, some 7 years later. (Yosh, has it really been that long?) I’ve reread this particular book [...]

By William Gibson
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Rating: Evasive.
Read: Freshman year (00-01), reread march 05

There are two people who may be upset that I did not enjoy Idoru, but I’m afraid I have to be honest. I found Idoru to be scatter-brained and evasive. I’ve never been a fan of books that follow two [...]

By Margaret Atwood
Rating: Favorite.
Read: Junior year (02-03), reread March 05. Updated July 2010.

I love The Handmaid’s Tale. I love it so much that I finally bought a copy from the college bookstore, and I covet it like Offred coveted the small things she wished she could steal from her oppressors. I found the book by [...]