I've an accidental book review to post today. I wasn't supposed to read it--but it just happened.
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick
It's full of books and with very few exceptions, I want to read them all. Since most of them are short, or at least shorter than the average book on my 50-book challenge, I conceived the brilliant idea of adding them in to my existing list...alternating short with long...and making it a 100-book challenge.
Oops. There are 73 book reviews.
Some may be out of print or unavailable; some I've already read. Paring out the ones I've read leaves 68. Removing the ones that aren't available in the library (and I probably don't want to buy) leaves 54. It just might work.
But I forgot to review Lizzie Skurnick's book. And the review is--
I don't know yet. Of the few of the books I've read, I totally agree with her opinion. But then, since when did agreeing with a reviewer's opinion become a necessity in trying her advice? Her writing is pithy, funny, a little too revealing of the plot sometimes but that was on purpose. She's writing about books for people who've shared them with her--spoilers are right okay.
And that's why I want to read them--I want the sharing. I want to be the teenagers she never was, and I never was, either.
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