I notice so many people now asking for recommendations. Mostly out of boredom, and because I like lists, I composed a list of novels I would recommend to just about anyone.

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The Natural by Bernard Malamud.
Genre: Drama
Pages: 231
My Rating: 5/10

The Natural was one of books I'm required to read for my AP Lang class this year. Don't start mistaking that I'm only giving this book a low rating because I had to read it for my course - I actually try to take an optimistic view point on all the books I have to read for class ( Read more... )

Out by Natsuo Kirino.
Genre: Crime
Pages: 400
Rating: 10/10

Out was by far one of the best books I've read in a long time. Kirino's writing really made the story come alive for me from chapter one all the way to the very end. The story revolves around four women who work the night shift together at a boxed lunch factory in modern Japan. One of the ( Read more... )

As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann.

Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 565
My Rating: 8/10

I put historical fiction as the genre of this book, but it really can't be catergorized with just one. (And I believe this is true of many books.) I usually enjoy books set in the modern century, but this book was a definite exception.

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Once in a while I'll eat something and it won't taste exactly right. For the next hour and a half I'll sit there and wonder if I'm dying. If it's a packaged product, I'll picture some disturbed workman slipping arsenic into the food, or injecting it with a lethal dose of cyanide as his way of saying "Fuck you!" to the world. I know this is ( Read more... )

So I don't go to many of the football games at my school. But I've found that the cheerleaders do not inspire school spirit. They inspire the urge to kill. While my friends and I are trying to make snarky comments about the announcer and the oboxious guy yelling at the top of his lungs, I don't want to hear annoying generic chants. And I understand ( Read more... )

City of Bones by Cassandra Claire
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 512
My rating: 2/5

Summary (Taken from Amazon): When Clary Fray witnesses three tattoo-covered teenagers murder another teen, she is unable to prove the crime because the victim disappears right in front of her eyes, and no one else can see the killers. She learns that the teens are ( Read more... )

Learned how to make fake bruises, cuts, and bulletholes in my theater class today. I don't know about you, but I think that's some of the wickedest shit ever. (Currently, I have a black eye. I haven't bothered to clean it off yet.)

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