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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs
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Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and...
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Rosario+Vampire: Season II, Vol. 5: Season II
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Mia and Me - Season 3
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The Merciless
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Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed...
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ClareR (5603 KP) rated Q: The Novel in Books
Jul 11, 2021
As a parent and a teacher, I found this novel really disturbing. The author has taken where we are now in our education system, and ramped it up to its most exaggerated end point. And it still didn’t seem completely over the top.
In Q’s reality, children are divided up in to their academic ability and put into one of three tiered schools - Silver, Green or Yellow. It’s a relatively new system, and for teacher Elena Fairchild, it’s a dream to teach in a top tier school, where the children are all motivated and high achieving. But when Elena’s youngest daughter is demoted from a Green to a Yellow school, Elena’s loyalty to the education system starts to disintegrate. And when her husband, who works in a senior position in the education department, refuses to save his daughter from being sent hundreds of miles away to a Yellow State boarding school, Elena decides to act.
Ooh, how I loved this. Yes, it’s uncomfortable reading. Yes, it has Eugenics written large all over it (And Elena’s grandmother even warns her and tells her about her youth under the Nazi regime). And yes, it’s uncomfortably close to reality.
But it was a gripping read with a satisfying end. I would recommend it!
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City Spies
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In this thrilling new series that Stuart Gibbs called “a must-read,” Edgar Award winner James...
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Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Catherine House in Books
May 21, 2020
Anyway, besides that pet peeve, this book was incredibly slow and nothing ever happened. This was mostly a story about a lot of frivolous kids at school with some weird scientific plasma stuff thrown in. It was incredibly difficult to care about Ines for most of the book--or any of the other characters--and truly, most of the plot. I thought about abandoning the book, but wanted to see if anything interesting ever happened with the scientific aspect. (No, not really.) The book sells itself as a mysterious ride, but it's more a character-driven novel. About lackluster, annoying characters.
Now the last third was fairly enjoyable and somehow an irritating book with eh characters had a satisfying ending, but getting there was just painful. Thomas is a good writer and this is no doubt one of those smart books where not much happens that book critics will worship, but it didn't really work for me. 2.5 stars.
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Slingshot
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Into every generation a Slayer is born… Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal....
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Dani Capello Shadows of Men
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"An endearing queer couple uplifts this romantic, unique, and occasionally violent tale." - Kirkus...
LGBTQ+ Coming of age literary