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a super short review, karenstyle!!
someday, i am going to venture down to the second floor where the kids/teen section is and i am going to grab a whole bunch of books that i like and i am going to just shelve them in my adult fiction section because the young'uns shouldn't get to hog everything that is good in this world and also not have to pay rent, and there is something creepy about a 35 year old man browsing the shelves in teen fiction.* i am doing everyone a favor here.
this book is great. ...more
someday, i am going to venture down to the second floor where the kids/teen section is and i am going to grab a whole bunch of books that i like and i am going to just shelve them in my adult fiction section because the young'uns shouldn't get to hog everything that is good in this world and also not have to pay rent, and there is something creepy about a 35 year old man browsing the shelves in teen fiction.* i am doing everyone a favor here.
this book is great. ...more
First I have to say that A Wrinkle in Time has been my favorite or among my very favorite books since I was nine years old, and I’ve never been able to write a true or worthy review for it; I can’t even try.
There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of books I wish I’d written. Occasionally, I come across a book I should have written. This is a book I definitely should have written. It touched me to the core in that incredibly familiar way that seems to come from within, not the outside. Some details are ...more
There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of books I wish I’d written. Occasionally, I come across a book I should have written. This is a book I definitely should have written. It touched me to the core in that incredibly familiar way that seems to come from within, not the outside. Some details are ...more
Ooh. This book is so fabulously clever and smart. It brings together: 1970s New York, the game show The $20,000 Pyramid, the many complexities of interpersonal relationships, A Wrinkle in Time, and a fantastic mystery. I loved the characters, and was so impressed with how Stead (seemingly) effortlessly charts the ups and downs of their relationships: friendships forming and falling apart and coming together again. This is a kids’ book, but like I said it is a smart kids’ book, one in which Stead
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This books feels like it was written a couple of decades ago, in a good way. It fits nicely into that YA subgenre of New York latchkey kids navigating interpersonal and family issues, and the time travel aspect is worked in seamlessly - it does nothing to pull you out of the fairly quiet and ordinary goings-on. It's very much written for middle readers (the central mystery, for instance, is not all that mysterious, and the brief discussions of time travel theory are at a pretty basic level), but
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Miranda (named after the Miranda rights) is a sixth-grader living in New York City in 1979. On the day her best friend Sal gets punched on the way home from school and stops being her friend, Miranda finds a mysterious note. The note asks her to write a letter about everything that happens and to include certain details. Miranda receives other notes, and she can't figure out who is sending them, only that the person seems to know the future. She's dealing with making new friends and then there's
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OK, I'm giving it an extra half-star because it is clever, made me nostalgic, and because I fear my lukewarm reaction to the book was probably caused in part by the hype and my age (i.e. I would have liked the book better if I'd just discovered it on a shelf somewhere, preferably around age 11). The funny thing is that it didn't technically make me nostalgic for my own childhood, since I was born in 1981, but for all the books written in the '70s that I read in the '80s, the ones with mimeograph
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This is a book about sixth grade and
A Wrinkle in Time
and friendship and game shows and mysterious notes and, finally, time travel. Nicely done all around.
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This is quite possibly a 4 star book, and maybe even 5 - but I have to give it 3, at least for now.
When I (and probably any of us) review books, I'm reviewing my perception of the book at the time - and this of course changes. Some of the books I really loved as a kid? Well, either they've changed, or I have.
I was really preoccupied, and I think that hurt the book a little bit. At least in the beginning. After a while, I really got into it. It didn't help that I was reading the audio-book versio ...more
When I (and probably any of us) review books, I'm reviewing my perception of the book at the time - and this of course changes. Some of the books I really loved as a kid? Well, either they've changed, or I have.
I was really preoccupied, and I think that hurt the book a little bit. At least in the beginning. After a while, I really got into it. It didn't help that I was reading the audio-book versio ...more
For me, this book was a nostalgia trip. It combined three reading-related things I loved when I was a kid: books about kids living in New York City, books with a central puzzle, and Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time. Although it's written for middle schoolers, I enjoyed the story and thought Miranda's voice was a smart, funny, but believably 12 year old voice. No precociousness here.
If you are not put off by reading a book aimed at 12 year olds, this is a good fast read that has believable ...more
If you are not put off by reading a book aimed at 12 year olds, this is a good fast read that has believable ...more
Jun 12, 2015
Jane-Rebecca
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it was amazing
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books-reads-in-2015
Gorgeous.
One of the best books I've read in a long time. Time travel is my favorite!
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Aug 04, 2009
Carmine
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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juvenile-fiction,
friendship
Ok, hype was a bit warranted. This is my favorite middle grade novel yet this year...but what box to stick it in? realistic time-travel mystery friendship/family drama set in 1970s New York City?
A quick read and just a lot of fun. You don't have to be a big fan of fantasy/time travel books to enjoy this, since the characters are, above all else, just regular school kids. You will get more out of it if you've read "Wrinkle in Time" first, of course, but I don't even think that's obligatory.
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I finished this book over a week ago and I STILL find myself thinking about. Lovely and wonderful, I enjoyed trying to solve the puzzle right along with the main character. Totally deserving of the Newbery Award.
So good. Seems simple, but will require a re-read or two for depth. Loved it.
Good book. What made it great was A Wrinkle in Time. That's all I'll say.
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thanks T
Jan 24, 2010
katie
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
kid-books,
young-adult
