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Gerda More gerdamore — Şaşırtıcı okuma, iyi yazılmış! :)

Beau Regard juicybeetle — there's not a lot to this book. mary anne grows a backbone & dumps logan because she's being a possessive jerkface. she's kind of bummed about it, & logan is really upset, but mary anne sticks to her guns & realizes she is doing the right thing. she rereads old letters she sent him in which she said things like, "i feel like half a person without you," & she gets really icked out with herself. she realizes that if you are feeling like half a person without your boyfriend, you need some space to stand on your own two feet & get to know yourself, & that's what she does. it turns out that she's quite the hot commodity at stoneybrook middle school. two boys ask her out after hearing that she dumped loagn, citing the fact that she is "very pretty & nice". she refuses both of them because she wants to get to know herself & her own possibilities without a boyfriend. pretty awesome! mary anne is spinsterxcore! her friends are all pretty supportive, with the exception of kristy, who thinks logan is awesome & mary anne is making a big mistake by dumping him. mary anne thinks for a second that maybe logan & kristy are going to start something up (they should, in my opinion) & confronts kristy, & they fight because kristy doesn't want mary anne telling her what to do, but they make up pretty quickly. kristy is not going for logan (hopefully because she is interested in <3 cary retlin <3!). i guess the sub-plot is that the building plan for mary anne's family's new house have been approved & they are ready to hire contracters & start construction on their new barn house (mary anne's house burnt down at the end of the original BSC series). mary anne has a heart-to-heart with one of the contracters, who is also a landscaper, about being open to unforeseen possibilities & taking chances, & she realizes she is becoming more independent & doesn't want to be hemmed in by people's expectations of sad, sensitive, sweet mary anne, BSC secretary & logan's girlfriend. basically, mary anne is becoming a total badass. i wish i was that mature, insightful, & self-aware when i was 13. my life probably would have been a lot more awesome to date. i love the fact that there's a YA book out there for young girls in which the prtag ditches her boyfriend, who everyone really likes, because he is too possessive of her in these weird little ways that girls are taught is no big deal (ie, always picking the restaurant they eat at, squelching mary anne's opinions of movies they see, etc), & rather than rushing right out & finding a replacement boyfriend, she hangs in there by herself & make a conscious effort to get to know herself better. very refreshing!

Anish Andavan iamgraphik08 — All three of the books in this series were good. I have recommended it to the tweens I know who are fantasy fans.

Andrey Volinets _ndrey_olinets — Jean Genet is the forgotten hero of 20th Century literature. Written far too early to imagine, Genet's lurid, scandelous and down-right arousing descriptions of petty-crime, poverty, murder and gay sex in the underbelly of early century European cities and their respective prisons is... well... hot. For further indulgence into the amazing course of Genet's life as an outlaw, please also read Edmund White's biography, Genet.