Sheesh, I read this right after Fighting Ruben Wolfe and then completely forgot to review this. It’s because so many new things are happening. I’m not just making an excuse. There are a lot of things going on in my life at the moment. For instance: 1. New job 2. New commitment to regular writing schedule 3. New phone and laptop 4. New record player 5. Loads and loads of new records – some purchased, some given to me by kind aunt and uncle – and the discovery of a wondrous record store in town 6. New addiction to Jodi…
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Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Markus Zusak
Published 4 Oct 2008
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Gin Jenny
I read this because I bought Getting the Girl, and then it turned out that Getting the Girl was a sequel to Fighting Ruben Wolfe. I haven’t liked reading things out of order since I was a young lass reading Patricia C. Wrede’s Dragons books. I read Talking to Dragons first and found it totally confusing, and after that I resolved to read things properly and in order thereafter. (The one exception being the Chronicles of Narnia. I can see a person being just as happy reading those books in the order they were written, which would give them the…
Leave a CommentThe Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Published 23 Jan 2008
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Gin Jenny
Seven. You roll and watch it coming, realizing completely that this is no regular die. You claim it to be bad luck, but you’ve known all along that it had to come. You brought it into the room. The table could smell it on your breath. The Jew was sticking out of your pocket from the outset. He’s smeared to your lapel, and the moment you roll, you know it’s a seven – the one thing that somehow finds a way to hurt you. It lands. It stares you in each eye, miraculous and loathsome, and you turn away with…
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