Becky Boer

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December 2018

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My Brilliant Friend

“My father held tight to my hand as if he were afraid that I would slip away. In fact I had the wish to leave him, run, move, cross the street, be struck by the brilliant scales of the sea. At that tremendous moment, full of light and sound, I pretended I was alone in the newness of the city, new myself with all life ahead, exposed to the mutable fury of things but surely triumphant: I, I and Lila, we two with that capacity that together–only together–we had to seize the mass of  ...

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The Hour I First Believed – Updated

by Wally Lamb58% done I started this book because I read that it was a fictional account of the Columbine High School shooting. Morbid as it is, I’m fascinated with true crime stuff, and Columbine was somewhat significant to me, as I was a senior in high school when it happened in 1999. I haven’t read any other books about it, nor have I watched Bowling for Columbine or any other documentaries, but this book has sunken me deep into websites on the killers and their victims. I  ...

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Strange the Dreamer

by Laini Taylor55% done For a long time, I avoided this book. The title turned me off, but that wasn’t the only reason. I also read a description of the book, and the fantasy world in which it takes place seemed a little too fantastical to me. However, I’m fascinated with Karou and the world of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. That was one of the few YA series that I actually finished and really enjoyed.  So when I saw that Strange the Dreamer was available as an ebook from the  ...

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