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Um, WOW!
an awesome book that shares my thoughts about most things. you'll love birdy's bitter sarcasm, her intellegence, and her independance. May she rock the thirteenth century! this book is so fun!

Great book for anyone.
This book was required reading for my up and coming 6th grader.She hates to read, but this book has been a riot.She is not into Barbie, pink or much girly stuff.Fortunately, neither is Catherine.She and my daughter have a lot in common.I would highly recommend this book for all girls.If the boys can get past the sprinkling of puberty stuff they will like her antics too.
Catherine Called BirdyBy: Ashley
When I first started off reading Catherine Called Birdy it wasn't very interesting, but after I read a little more it all made sense and turned out to be a funny and excellent book. It gives a lot of details and makes the story really come alive.
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Special indeed are holiday stories with the right mix of high spiritsand subtle mystery to please both adults and children--Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," for example. Or Ray Bradbury's classic Read more

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I didn't see much to recommend the Halloween Tree.
The Halloween Tree has a trite and predictable storyline. The characters were one dimensional. The prose style Bradbury elected to use was hyperbolic to the point of a saccharine mania. The central theme of the story was to travel back in time to find the true meaning of Halloween. Unfortunately, the history of Halloween he presented was not accurate. Samhain was not a grim reaper-like god; rather it was a pagan festival that is the basis of the Halloween tradition. Bradbury also got the myth of Osiris mixed up with that of Ra. Bradbury either did not check his facts or, as in The Martian Chronicles, decided not to let the facts get in the way of a "good" story. While some may argue this book was written as an allegory so accuracy is moot, I would say allegories work best when their weakness are not such an obvious distraction.
Great book for young people
THE HALLOWEEN TREE is a book that is geared for younger readers (in the 10 year old range would be about right, I'd say), but is generally satisfying to anyone who picks it up. For an adult, it can be easily read in an afternoon. The characterization is not deep, but Bradbury has a way with language in the book; he is evocative and nostolgic in the way that only he can be. He effortlessly conjures up images of male youth, complete with faux bravado and the sense of mystery that surrounds events like Halloween. He gives a respectful, multicultural view of Halloween, and it's roots in many cultures. Toward the end of the story, he gives our boys a choice: will they sacrifice part of themselves for the good of another? It gives the story some moral grounding and resolves the plot nicely. But the real draw is the poetic use of words--it's a great way to get kids interested in reading, and not a bad diversion for those of us who are a bit older as well.

Haunting as Mr. Moundshroud
"Halloween Tree" recaptures the surreal spookiness of a child's Halloween with the knowledge of an adult. One of Ray Bradbury's relatively few books for children is a wildly imaginative ride, with a strong subtext about friendship and death itself.
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Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    2. Children: Grades 3-4    3. Fiction    4. Halloween    5. Holidays & Celebrations - Halloween    6. Horror & Ghost Stories    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic    9. Space and time    10. Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic   

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Brian Jacques's superb Redwall series truly captures the finestin storytelling tradition and combines it with the ultimate in upbeat,catch-your-breath adventure. Read more

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Great series
Great series for young and old looking for a mental shut-down for bed book.

Perhaps the best Redwall novel: engrossing, wonderful characters, an exciting read. Highly recommended.
The second book in the Redwall series, Mossflower provides much of the backstory for the first novel, Redwall, recording Martin the Warrior's time spent in Mossflower wood and his battle to free the natives from the tyrannical rule of Tsarmina the wildcat. Martin arrives as a stranger to Mossflower, but is soon imprisoned by Tsarmina. The wildcat breaks the sword of his father, and he vows to take her life. After his subsequent escape with the help of his friend Gonff and the animals of Mossflower wood, Martin sets out on a journey of riddle solving, traveling, capture, and escape in order to restore his father's sword to its glory, kill Tsarmina and destroy her castle Kotir, and bring freedom and peace to the inhabitants of Mossflower. This text shows remarkable improvement, both in style and in setting, from Redwall and even now remains one of the best books in the series. Martin is a true hero and an enjoyable protagonist, both supporting characters and villains are well-developed and interesting to read, Martin's jorney provides our first glimpse of Salamandastron, and the book provides much backstory to Redwall and creates a prime jumping off point for the many, many sequels and prequels that follow. This is one of my favorite Redwall books to reread, and I very highly recommend it.
Mossflower, the very best of Brian Jacques
I think this is a thrilling adventure of Martin the Warrior and his new best friend Gonff.As they go questing with friends that they meet on the way, Log-log, and Denny, they crash their boat and wake up in a bat cave.They also get trapped in a frog cave and end up helping an eel.During the whole book, Martin is thinking about the oath he made to Tsarmina and how he would complete it.I think this book is great, but to really get the thrill, you need to listen to the audio version. ... Read more

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This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where televisionand computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies.The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kidsare driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of sillyentertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customizedmurmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy. Read more

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No nuances, everything is over the top.
This book can't find it's niche. Even though it is commonly classified as a "teen" bood, the language in the book is as bad as "Scarface" or "Pulp Fiction", with the "f-bomb" being as common an expression for these teens as "awesome" was for teens in the 80's or "cool" in the 70's. This could be excused if the characters were interesting, but the characters on sit-coms are more interesting than the supporting characters. The supporting characters throughout the entire book are wooden props for the author to make social commentary, and after a while it feels like one is being beat over the head by it.
After reading "Feed" I feel full.
Titus lives in a future time when a technology called "the feed" attaches right into your brain and gives him the ability to send email, chat, watch TV, order merchandise, and listen to the radio all at once.Everyone gets "the feed" installed when they're babies, and it helps them to know what's cool and where to shop for their favorite things.
An influential book that I will never forget.
In Feed, a satirical and tragic science fiction novel, M.T. Anderson takes readers to what is hopefully a distant future.This future is one in which people have computer chips, known as the feed, implanted into their heads that connect them to each other, entertainment, and streams of messages that tell the chip's hosts what the latest trends are.Titus is a young man in this future; he and his friends are like most people their age.They party, they watch the feed, the listen to the feed, they are dictated by the feed; their lives are safe, routine, as is expected when it is the norm to be the same as everyone else, until Titus and his friends meet an abstruse, young girl named Violet on their vacation to the moon.Violet is bent upon shaking the system upon which Titus and his friends, among countless other teenage carbon copies, are so accustomed to, so when Titus and Violet develop a budding romance, tragic events are sure to ensue.
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A Break With Charity, Review by Christina Rizk
Susanna English, a fourteen year old girl who lives in the small puritan community of Salem, is torn betweeen two worlds as her family gets accused of witchcraft and is sent to prison.Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of the girls who meet at the parsonage every week, but what she doesn't know is that they're planning to make things interesting and sudddenly act "afflicted" by witches whom they accuse at random; and the magistrate's believe them. Susanna stays in Salem with the Putnams, as her family is in Boston, and soon falls in love with Jonathon Hathorne. Finally Susanna is faced with having to make the hardest desicision of her life: tell the people of the evil girls' plans and risk getting accused of a witch, or keep quiet and watch innocent people lose their livesfor no good reason.

A Break with Charity
A Break with Charity is an amazing and enlightening book. It brings you into the time of the Salem Witch Trials and makes you feel as if you were there. The perspectives given in the book are brilliant as you watch entertainment in a highly restrictive world go from seemingly innocent to powerful and deadly.
A Break with Charity Makes a Breakthrough in Young Adult Historical Fiction
Superstition.Boredom.Neighbor and family feuds.A circle of restless girls, trying to break free.Accusations. Hangings.The fine line between life and death, superstition and reality is tested in A Break with Charity by: Ann Rinaldi.
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A Gift For One Of My Wonderful Sisters
I did not get to read this book myself as it was a belated Christmas gift for one of my wonderful sisters, and she loves anything by Maya Angelou.I am pleased to say that she was absolutely delighted and said this was the most beautiful poem she had ever read.

Britney Spears and Maya Angelou
I have the sneaking suspicion that the same team of writers behind Britney Spears platinum single "Hit Me Baby One More Time," also wrote Maya Angelou's bestselling poem "Amazing Peace,"
so disappointing
It's commonly accepted that the Christmas holiday season has become the annual highpoint of consumerism in America, but how sad that this short-sighted foolishness extends so far into the upper echelons of even our literary establishment.Maya Angelou's 2005 holiday book is a good example."Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem" did phenomenal sales in its first month of publication and is guaranteed to be a staple of holiday display tables in bookstores for years to come.It's a tiny hardcover book that will run you $9.95.Yet this poem is just 300 to 400 words (about the number of words on 1 page in an average novel) and is liberally stretched here to cover a grand total of 11 pages.And sadly, it's not even much of a poem.The book uses the holiday to make an uninspired call for peace--an admirable sentiment surely, but one can find dozens of Christmas carols that have more beauty in a single line than this entire book.And, finally, what does the love of peace have to do with cashing in on Christmas by means of a dull little poem? ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American - African American    2. American - General    3. Angelou, Maya - Poems & Criticism    4. Christmas    5. Peace    6. Poetry    7. Poetry / General   

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Read the Fifth Bussiness, but skip the rest
If you ask me to rank each part of this trilogy seperately, i would give the Fifth Business a 5 Star, The Manticore a 2 star and World of Wonders simply one star. Davies' obsession with Jung makes Manticore rather pretencious and unbearably monotonous to read. For the case of World of Wonders, its creation and value, in my opinion, might only rest on the romantic idea of the completion of a triology, which is a thing that Davies loves to do but failes to do well.

Starts well, ends badly
This was a dissapointing book.The first part of the trilogy went well enough, Davies has a skill at making dowdy characters interesting enough to sustain his plot.Other reviewers found fault with the second part, the Jungian analysis.The conceit of advancing the story through the conversation of doctor and patient is handled a little amateurishly, but it is done well enough to sustain the flow, and all in all it seemed the best of the trilogy to me.It would have been a better book to end after two.The final part is so forced that the plot and characters are reduced to a thin skeleton for hanging some tired and simplistic pseudo-speculations on the nature of religion and myth.The setup of a "scandanavian" film maker and his camera man is a pathetic little device if you've read the Bergman its nipped from. So it was that two-thirds of the way through the final part, I gave up and closed the thing.It reminded me of the Frankenstein monster, cobbled together out of stolen members. But unlike that great work of fantasy, there is no mad genius behind it.

To dree one's weird
The above title of this review is the gnomic answer of a sort given to the question asked by many of the characters in this trilogy, "Who killed Boy Staunton?" at the end by Ramsay.But to find out what this means, you'll have to look up the history of the word "weird" when it was still a noun, before the "three weird sisters" of Macbeth launched the word into its long trek to the adjective we know today.-So it is with much of this work, lots of interesting, fascinating tangents to follow, if one is so inclined.
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The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in largepart to the development of his characters. In Read more

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...nothing like a doll at all...
What I particularly enjoy about Neil Gaiman is his ability to build a story from the foundation going forward.So many times, we have authors or illustrators that take the campy way out by using flashbacks, amateurish jumps, or just plain forgetfulness as they attempt to keep the reader's attention by quickly arriving to the climax or resolution (or better yet the gasp of a twist ending).Gaiman does no such thing with his "Sandman" stories.While this second collection of his graphic novels doesn't quite match to the standard of "Preludes & Nocturnes", it is because it is a building block for future stories.What I especially love about Gaiman's writing and choice of stories is that he is not afraid to take us away from our comfortable characters and begin planting the seed for more interesting events going forward.It is like the television series "Lost", events happen for a reason, and Gaiman is very willing to dedicate just as much time to those smaller stories as he does our overall story because he knows the value of amazing (and concise) storytelling.I love this series, but this collection "A Doll's House" is a sampling of smaller stories that will obviously be used as bigger events in the future.
Finding His Place
Following a decent beginning Neil Gaiman truly shines in this second volume of his acclaimed series, The Sandman. Taking the second incarnation of the Sandman (who he completely reformed for the series), Gaiman spins a story seamlessly around his first volume and introduces elements that will affect the title the remainder of it's 75 issues. Even bringing in William Shakespeare in one issue, Gaiman uses elements of fact and fairy tale along with some of our worst fears to write an extraordinary story.

Something unique
Sandman even after being written 10+ years ago is still as clever and dark as it was then. Showcasing Neil Gaiman's fantastic writing and complex plot threads, scary and wonderous at the same time Vol. 2 is the first time we actually start to see what Gaiman is truly capable of. I highly recommend to anyone who loves horror and fantasy. ... Read more

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Brought together for the first time here are all of Maya Angelou's published poems -- including "On the Pulse of Morning," her inaugural poem -- in a handsome hardcover edition. ... Read more

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Excellent collection of Maya Angelou's works
I was so happy to find this collection of poetry and writings in one book by Maya Angelou.I find her work so uplifting and her writings cut to the core of humanity and show life as it is.It is real and not all glossed over and it goes right to your heart.Beautiful work...a pleasure to own.A work that I will read again and again.

Poetry that I can understand and identify with!
Maya Angelou's poems are wonderful.You can understand and grasp her meaning while she is not afraid to tell it like it is.Her poetry speaks to the heart of every woman no matter the race.When you read her poems you are not merely reading words but you feel the words and are surrounded by their message.I only wished I could have studied her poetry in high school and college.She is truly magnificent!

Poetry is what you make of it...
I only write this because I love this author more than any other and feel the need to defend this book from the critics who wrote the other reviews on it. I feel that poetry is what you make of it. If you can relate to what the poet is saying, what does it matter if they didn't follow specific guidelines that universities try to teach people who probably lack the free-form. Which is what I consider this book. Free-form poetry. So, yes,if you're only reading the book for an assignment or trying to analyze it into a specific form of poetry, you might be disappointed. However, if you are reading it in leisure or to connect with someone who can beautifully express some of our emotions and events of life, you won't be disappointed. That is if you can relate to it. As with all poetry, it will mean more to you if you can understand where the poet is coming from and connect that with your own emotions and personal experiences. From the time that I picked up this book over a decade ago, I have loved it! I hardly ever take the time to go back and re-read anything. I figure, once read, the most important of the knowledge is there and to move on, but I have read and re-read this book more times than I can remember! For me, it's full of emotion. I feel that in it's free-form, it's beautifully written. I could only ever hope to create a book as outstanding as this one, and I often compare my own free-form to hers.Once again, it's an outstanding book if you can relate to it. ... Read more

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Life's the thing
The myth of Sisyphus is a model essay to comfort people in those moods of bleak, existential despair that assail us all from time to time. The moral to emerge from this fable is a simple one - life in the post Nietzsche age, with no god, is absurd, there is no overarching meaning outside life itself, but there is still great nobility in fighting the good fight right to the death.
A treatise on absurdism.
The Myth of Sisyphus is a treatise on absurdism, and while absurdism is an admittedly interesting topic in its own right, Camus never convincingly demonstrates a connection between the absurd and the impulse to suicide.
The question of suicide and its ethics
In his many theoretical books, Albert Camus tries to answer a question that has bothered him: Whether a human life is worth taking?
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A Blip in the Slew of 5 Star Reviews
Though I doubt that my review will be either found helpful or noticed through the slew of 5 star reviews and 1 star reviews that go something like, "this book was hella dumm," the point of reviews in to speak your mind.This book, though it has rich characters and relationships, lacks the most important aspect of a novel: a plot.Victor Martinez fails to set out a definitive goal for the main character, and rather writes with "train of thought." The entire book is a jumble of situations the main character encounters that don't revolve around a central goal or conflict.Besides using unoriginal and sterotypical Mexican names such as "Hernandez" and "Garcia," the author writes with an overused and overly metaphorical style which doesn't pull the reader in until the last 15 pages or so.I recommend using spending your money elsewhere.

Ameica's Review
For teenagers 15 and up; Especially for the mexican-American who go trough a lot of tough times. Manney Hernandez is goin trough a difficult age. His brother Bernardo or "Nardo" as they call him goes from job to job; He never settels down in one. Manny's father is always getting drunk and gets fierd from work. Manny has been trough a lot he saw his father's arrest for having an unlicensed gun. All Manny wants is to gain respect. He is thinking about joining a gang but is that the only way to gain respect. How will Manny gain respect will it be trough hard work or is he going to take the easy way out and join a gang that will bring nothing good in the future. Coming of age is very difficult for evryone in that situation. The book should be read by guys who are in that difficult stage and the peer pressure of becoming a man.

Parrot in the oven
Parrot in the Oven
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A dark, haunting tale that's hard to forget
To shortly summarize, "Heart Of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad, is all about an English man named Marlow. He's a sailor and an explorer who takes command of a steamboat on an African river, during the Age of Imperialism. He takes his ship up the river in hopes of finding a man named Kurtz, who's something of a legend among the Englishmen living in Africa. What he finds along his journey causes him the question the morality of Imperialism, and he finds in the African natives something which resembles evil. And once he finds Kurtz, he realizes that, although the Imperialists may act superior and tough, they are just as savage and immoral as the natives.
Chilling tales that are open for many interpretations
This collection brings together three remarkable novellas by Joseph Conrad: Youth, Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether. In Youth Charlie Marlow recounts the troublesome voyage of the old ship Judea and its wretched 600-ton cargo of coal. The same Marlow also serves as the narrator in Heart of Darkness, undoubtedly the most famous of the three stories. It details how Marlow takes on a foreign assignment as a ferry boat captain on the Congo River in order to restore communications with Kurtz, an eccentric ivory procurement agent isolated in the secluded midlands. Finally in The End of the Tether Captain Whalley, a former dare-devil skipper, sacrifices his retirement and embarks on a precarious voyage on the steamer Sofala in order to support his distant, beloved daughter.
A Journey We All Must Take
When Marlow begins his journey to find the mythical Kurtz in HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad dares the reader to accompany Marlow on a voyage less into the physical jungles of darkest Africa and more into the mental labyrinth that human beings erect to protect themselves from the horrors that they themselves build. In this justly famous novella, Conrad depicts a pre-politically correct age when white men thought it only fair and inevitable that they plunder the riches of Africa all the while comforting themselves that they were uplifting the fallen state of a lowly people.
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Revelations from three generations
This is a great book full of revelations about three generations of women.The mother in the story is very ill and trying to think of the best way to help her daughter.She decides to go back to the Indian reservation where she was born.Each woman keeps her personal thoughts to herself and only through their stories told to the reader do we find out the things they don't tell their own family.Well worth the read.

one of the best things i've read in years
dorris does something amazing here. he tells the story in three parts: mother, daughter, and granddaughter. we see how the same story looks completely different depending on who is telling it. each section adds another layer to the reader's understanding. a great depiction of the complicated mother-daughter relationship, the way the love is intense and yet not always seen for what it is.

Looking for love
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is a novel written by Michael Dorris and published in 1987. It is written from the viewpoints of three people, Rayona, Christine, and Ida, exchanging viewpoints between different sections of the book. From the very beginning that the protagonists of this story are not your typical picture of the quietly happy and satisfied American Family. Parenting is an On the Job Training (OJT) program, which hopefully a good role model is demonstrated through their parents. No matter how good parents are, they still make mistakes, and for the most part they correct their errors and life goes on.Unfortunately, a good role model for Christine was severely lacking, which promulgated through the raising of Rayona. Christine and Rayona seem to have a definite bonding, yet it is hampered by Christine's neglect Rayona due to drug addiction, alcoholism, and bar hopping in hopes of replacing her negligently straying husband. Christine is definitely absent emotionally from Rayona.As in the song "Looking for Love (In all the wrong places)" by Johnny Lee, Christine was doing exactly that. Rayona remained optimistic about love even through long periods of inconsideration from both her parents. Christine discovered that mothering Rayona was the true love she had been missing, although this discovery came when she discovered she had six months to live. Ida demonstrated the closest to true Christian Love, although it started through selfish means. The Bible says "No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends" (ISV). ... Read more

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A powerhouse sixth-grade Academic Bowl team from Epiphany Middle School; the art of calligraphy; the retirees of Century Village, Florida; a genius dog named Ginger; and a holiday production of "Annie" all figure heavily in the latest book by E. L. Konigsburg, who has produced a Newbery Medal-winning children's tale to rival her classic Read more

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One of the most moving books I have read in a long time!
So I had this crazy idea: I'm going to read the Newberry Awards books. I was at my fiancé's school and they had a poster of past Newberry Award books and I had this epiphany: I was going to take some time and just read great young adult books!
Teamwork Pays Off
I really liked this book because it was about different kids that worked together to meet a common goal. The characters were kids that I could relate to, and the plot moved along so you won't get bored. I would like to read other books by this writer and see if they are as good.

Great writer
This is the second middle grade book by Konigsburg that I've read. She's such a wonderful writer.
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Classique de la litterature francaise
Je fais mon debut comme instite a un lycee.Pour le cours de francais V, on va commencer la litterature avec L'ETRANGER de Camus.Je crois que c'est l'endroit ideal pour commencer, car le livre se presente simplement au lecture, mais le mene aux themes importants de la philosophie francaise/absurdiste.A mon avis personnel, la scene du meurtre sur la plage est exceptionnellement emouvante et vive.Ceux qui disent que c'est n'importe quoi comme livre completement ratent un chef-d'oeuvre.

Aujourd'hui, Maman est morte.
What a way to begin a story?! And what can one say about Camus that hasn't already been said? This is a great novel filled with observations, images and actions carefully stitched into words by a master narrator. If you're a novice to French literature, this is a perfect place to begin.

Tout simplement exquis!
Quel roman savoureux.Du pass� simple, j'en prendrais volontier.Un incontournable. ... Read more

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