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Author: Jennifer Brown Genre: YA Contemporary Original publication date: September 2009 Book description (from Good Reads):  Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets. Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life. This is a hard thing to describe. At some point it felt a very long book, it had me annoyed, angry, it made me upset........
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TBR out of Readathons

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Animal Farm

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Author: George Orwell  Genre: Fiction, Classics First published: August 1945 Book description (from Good Reads):  A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. Thoughts: I was scared to get into this story and because of that, I put it off for a long time.  Ok so this was not assigned reading for me so I read it on my on and w...
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I give up

It's literally midway of May.  I had several issues, very little time for reading, the stress of work and to top it all Scribd played a bad move on me.  Suddenly all the audiobooks were removed from me until after the 30th... I was super surprised and not in a good way.  I had seen a lot of people complain about Scribd having fake advertisement and that it didn't really have unlimited access as it claimed but I had ignored them. I mean mostly I thought that it gave you the option to choose from the most recent releases in a limited way but the rest of the books, older titles were not affected like this. I was wrong. I picked in my TBR several, most of my books from Scribd and also most in audio format. But then around the maybe 12 - 13 I noticed one of my books was not available and I thought to myself, oh damn I made a mistake it was not on audiobook. Oh well, and I picked another one to replace it. But then the next one was also no available. That made me suspicio...
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Our endless numbered days

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Author: Claire Fuller Original Publication date: February 2015 Genre: Fiction Book description (from Good Reads):  Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods. Thoughts: This is told in two time periods, the present after Peggy is back with her mother and how she is facing the time back among society. She is very conflicted about how she feels about her father and her time away.  It is at first confusing, yo...
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