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ARIA'S BOOK LIST

 Hello, and welcome to my book review blog.

I'll be posting a new review whenever I can - hopefully at least once a week. Review Format

Look in the side section for more about me, reviewed books listed various ways, and a list of some of my favorites, both those I have reviewed, and those I havn't.
Enjoy!
   
May 8, 2005 3:56 pm
The same as always

Mira, Mirror
   by Mette Ivie Harrison
Fairy Tale   |   314pgs.
     When she's a young girl, Mira is traded to a witch as an aprentice, but then betrayed by her new sister and turned into a mirror.  Years pass and she finds herself in the company of another young girl, and plans to use her to get the magic she needs to be human again.  But as she spends time with the girl, Mira starts to question what she is doing.
     The first book I've ever read from the point of view of a mirror, it's a little strange, but fun and touching.  Looking at a fairy tale from another way is always fun, and this one even manages to avoid the steryotypical prince-is-most-important-thing, although it is not compleatly devoid of romance.

 my ratin: 4   |   amazon.com rating: 4.5


Saving Francesca
   by Melina Marchetta
Teen Life   |   243pgs.
     Francesca Spinelli starts year eleven at a school whith 750 boys and thirty girls, only three of whom went to her old school.  Of course she wouldn't consider any of them to be her friends, but who else is there to hang out with?  To top this off, her mother, once an intense activist and motivator, suddenly stops getting out of bed one day.  Now Francesca must not only survive school and figure out who she and her friends really are, but try desparately to keep her family, in fact her whole life, together.
     This is a book that feels real.  Francesca and her mistakes and successes, as well as all the other characters, are all completely concievable, in fact, exactly as you would think they'd be outside the book.  There are no cheap plot divices here.  The story is very well written, touching and, like life itself, has happy and sad and funny moments and seriousness.

my rating: 5   |   amazon.com rating: 5


    

~ariasloft

 

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ABOUT ME: I am Aria, age 17, avid reader. I read pretty much anything, and the reviews here will be mostly young adult leval fiction, although occasionally there will be nonfiction or something with a slightly different reading leval. For more about me, visit my (other) blog

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Author
Subject/Themes

Some of My Favorite Books:
Lucas
Please Don't Kill The Freshman
Hard Love
Lombardo's Law
Jacob Have I Loved
Song In the Silence
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

and more

Books By Title

Adam Canfield of the Slash
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Better than Running at Night
Born Confused
Cobwebs
Confessions of a Not It Girl
Dragon's Gate
Eyes of the Emporer
Fire Logic
Like We Care
Mira, Mirror
Mortal Engines
Once Upon a Marigold
Paper Mage
Pieces
Private Peaceful
Rush Hour vol.2: Bad Boys
Saving Francesca
Sloppy Firsts
Snow-Walker
So Super Starry
Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightengale Floor
Talking in the Dark
Tam Lin
The Flip Side
The Wings of a Falcon
The Witch's Boy
Trickster's Queen
Uglies
Valiant
Where We Are What We See
Wintering
Wormwood


Books By Author

Holly Black-Valiant
Michael Cart (editor)-Rush Hour vol.2: Bad Boys
Michael Chabon-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Stephen Chboslky (editor)-Pieces
Leah R. Cutter-Paper Mage
Pamala Dean-Tam Lin
William Durbin-Wintering
Jean Ferris-Once Upon a Marigold
Catherine Fischer-Snow-Walker
Hillary Frank-Better than Running at Night
Michael Gruber-The Witch's Boy
Mette Ivie Harrison-Mira, Mirror
Lian Hearn-Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightengale Floor
Tanuja Desai Hidier-Born Confused
Melissa Kantor-Confessions of a Not It Girl
David Levithan (editor)-Where We Are, What We See
Melina Marchetta-Saving Francesca
Laurie J. Marks-Fire Logic
Andrew Matthews-The Flip Side
Tom Matthews-Like We Care
Megan McCafferty-Sloppy Firsts
Billy Merrell-Talking in the Dark
Michael Murpurgo-Private Peaceful
Tamora Pierce-Trickster's Queen
Philip Reeve-Mortal Engines
Graham Salisbury-Eyes of the Emporer
G.P. Taylor-Wormwood
Cynthia Voigt-The Wings of a Falcon
Scott Westerfeld-Uglies
Rose Wilkins-So Super Starry
Michael Winrip-Adam Canfield of The Slash
Laurence Yep-Dragon's Gate
Karen Romano Young-Cobwebs


Books By Subject

THIS SECTION UNDER CONSRUCTION

Anthogy
Pieces
Rush Hour vol2: Bad Boys
Where We Are What We See

Fairy Tale
Mira, Mirror
Once Upon a Marigold
The Witch's Boy

Fantasy
Cobwebs
Fire Logic
Paper Mage
Snow-Walker
Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightengale Floor
Taml Lin
The Wings of a Falcon
Trickster's Queen
Valiant
Wormwood

Historical
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Dragon's Gate
Eyes of the Emporer
Paper Mage
Private Peaceful
Tales of the Otori: Across the Nightengale Floor
Wintering

Issues
Adam Canfield of the Slash
The Flip Side
Like We Care

Life
Better than Running at Night
Talking in the Dark

Mystery
Cobwebs

Poetry
Talking in the Dark

Romance
Born Confused

Science Fiction
Mortal Engines
Uglies

Teen
Adam Canfield of the Slash
Born Confused
Cofessions of a Not It Girl
The Flip Side
Like We Care
Saving Francesca
Sloppy Firsts
So Super Starry



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