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Aykhan Safarli aykhansafarli — Raven was a smart girl who made one too many mistakes. Now she is a teenage mother and a highschool dropout living with her mother. Her best friend is Aisha, another dropout with a child. It's what happens in the projects. Raven isn't ready to give up just yet, though. Her older sister tells her about a scholardship she could get if she wins a spelling bee. Raven decides to go for it, and gets Aisha's help preparing. She must take this last chance to make her dreams come true.

Catherine-gail Reinhard catherinegail — *** updated after re-reading *** Of course you've heard it all already - the majesty of the whale (and its whiteness!), the scope of this monstrous book and its formal experimentation, its fathoms-deep themes. I'm certainly not going to recap its plot to you, what little plot there is - whale bites man, man bites whale? But what struck me most on reading Moby Dick again was how the narrative makes its movement, not out of a traditional arc, but out of the confidence of its language; Melville trusts the flexibility of his tone enough that he can take long detours away from the Pequod and into the realms of history and whale anatomy, detours which he makes so fascinating that they only increase our fascination with the story. The key here is the sense of humor: whales are classified as if they are books; a man wears the skin of a whale penis like a jacket; the king of a South Sea island shows our narrator a temple made out of a massive sperm whale skeleton. There's a stubborn tendency in American culture to ossify the classics, but it would be a shame for anyone to approach Moby Dick as if it were a collection of serious themes, seeing as they might miss the way irony sings between the cracks of practically every sentence - page long parodies of academic texts, speeches mocking Emersonian transcendentalism. And when the great themes do emerge, their tragedy is sharpened because they tip the tone on which we've come to rely into a darker position. It's only an inch or so from satire to total nihilism, after all. Maybe more than anything else, Moby Dick is an argument for risk, evidence that you can stretch the fabric of language long past the accepted length without breaking the narrative line. A good reminder that narrative is composed of language, and not the other way around, and excellent evidence the next time some asshole tries to tell you the importance of structure/coherence/a page limit in your aspirations to novel-dom.

梁 钊瑞 402460759f672 — I actually did recommend this book to my professor. I was a little dumbfounded by the, um, shall we say "recasting" of Howards End, and since that was the fist book I had to read for his class (and the first book of my college career, incidentally), I emailed him to see if he had read it. I still don't really know what to think about this book. It's a little of a soap opera, but then so is Howards End. I can say this: I didn't think I liked Howards End until I read On Beauty, and now I think I like Howards End - dare I say it - better. I'm on the fence about how Smith uses H.E. in this book. Part of me feels that she stole so much from it that it's like she's unoriginal, but another part of me feels that she did insert her own original ideas into the text, and explored what happens when you try to bring an Edwardian novel into the 21st century. Her characters are as rich as ever, if slightly dispicable. I should note that a friend of mine who read this felt that she didn't have a total grasp on Black life in America, and so her characterization of her Black characters was a little off. In sum: Interesting.

Sofía Lozano sophie_lp — The is a fascinatingly morbid series. I couldn't put it down. I loved reading it. I love even more that I'm done.

De Albuquerque _ — A fantastic end to an amazing series! The story was full of surprising twists and turns but still maintained the concepts of love, friendship and bravery that Richelle Mead started with the first book. I like that the female characters are strong both mentally and physically and are positive role models for the readers. For me, this was one of the best books in the series that had tears in my eyes from sadness and also laughter. The story has created so many fantastic characters who I have enjoyed following. I have loved losing myself in this world and the journey Rose has taken.

Fei Tortillafei tortillafei0bdc — A Delightful Read.