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By: Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Newbery and Beyond

Book Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Newbery and Beyond — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:39:18 +0000

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Wed, 08 Oct 2014 11:12:45 +0000

[…] through reading this book, I read a review of it on Reading the End in which Jenny said that this book is more suited to a blog (the essays are very short), and I […]

By: Christy

Christy — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:33:42 +0000

I really enjoyed Looper. Possibly best 2012 movie for me so far. I thought the ending was fine but not my favorite part of the movie. On the one hand, Joe’s decision at the end gave me good chills. On the other hand, I thought the special effect of Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt hanging in the air was a litle bit silly, but the payoff was the look on the child actor’s face when he stops himself. That was a fantastic child actor.

Word to the creepiness of the scenes with older Seth. Also, that freeze-time scene with the kid and Garret Dillahunt’s character in the house was strangely beautiful in its gory way.

The ending to The Brothers Bloom was meh – I agree about that. (The character of Bang Bang was the best though.)

I don’t remember the very end of Brick, but I do remember the climactic action scene as being very chilling. I want to rewatch it now that I’ve seen Rian Johnson’s two other films.

By: Cass

Cass — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:41:59 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to The Unquiet–partly because I loved Garsee’s other book Say The Word and partly because I like that The Unquiet features someone with bipolar disorder without making having the disorder the whole plot. My expectations have been lowered!

By: Marie (@bostonbibliophl)

Marie (@bostonbibliophl) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:35:38 +0000

I felt the same way about Mindy Kaling’s book. it was cute but it wasn’t great. Bossypants was a much better book of the same genre. Since it came out right after Bossypants was so successful, a lot of people, myself included, hoped for more of the same but it just wasn’t as good.

By: Stephanie @ Read in a Single Sitting

Stephanie @ Read in a Single Sitting — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:32:01 +0000

I know what you mean about having to review right away! I have an awful memory, so unless a book has truly resonated with me, it slips right out of my mind right after reading!

By: zibilee

zibilee — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:51:07 +0000

I haven’t heard many good things about Mindy Kaling’s book. Most of what I have heard is that she is kind of whiny and feels that she is tragically fat when she is only a size 6 or 10 or something. Yeah. Not quite my cup of tea, I think. I was also disappointed with Looper’s ending. I wanted something more. The rest of the movie was wonderful though.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:44:31 +0000

I know what you mean about blog posts rather than essays, you can mix both and it be successful, but it takes work and in view of your opinion about the book the lines are blurred nowadays, I’d say, because we’re so used to writing more casually and with a different structure. The title sounds more blog-like too.