5/31/2023 0 Comments Alone megan e freemanCan Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?. Community Reviews Summary of 610 reviews. She’s aloneleft behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. 416 pages first pub 2021 ISBN/UID: 9781534467576. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. She’s alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Fallen Crest High by TijanAnd a ridiculous amount of graphic sex scenes between Sam and Mason. There is a lot of cheating and sleeping around. I didn’t love how it painted teenage girls as desperate for popularity above anything else, even self-respect. It features teenagers that act like adults and adults that are crazy and negligent and abusive (and a few eventually that are amazing). There are some super crazy, ridiculous, eye-rolling, cringe-worthy, unbelievable drama that goes on in this series. She meets her future step-brothers, who are wildly popular rich football players, and after some initial bad blood, the three become very close. Sam’s mother is leaving her father and takes Samantha with her to her new boyfriend’s house. The series follows Samantha and her drama filled life with the Kade brothers, Mason and Logan. Because of that, I decided to finally give this series a try and got hooked. After a disappointing reading year in 2019, I found myself looking for books that I don’t normally read and for some reason got into SUPER ANGSTY type of books. The Fallen Crest High series has been on my radar for awhile because Deanna loves it, but it never really looked like my thing. It’s been a long time since I discovered a series that’s completely published and have been able to binge read the whole thing at once. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Love is hell matt groeningLife in Hell crept into the world in 1977 as a self-published book that Groening, freshly moved to Los Angeles from Portland to pursue his ambition of becoming a writer, would give out to friends. * Here’s how to pronounce ‘Grœning’ correctly and impress all your friends. So the work of Matt Groening* (who probably needs no introduction, but you can get one here) was not really familiar to me at all when co-admin RG introduced me to The Big Book of Hell, though of course I was aware of the Simpsons aesthetic, as one would truly have to live under a rock not to be acquainted with it to at least some degree. I also somehow managed to skip Futurama (catching up with it years and years later, with great enjoyment). Unlike most of my peers, I didn’t grow up absorbing The Simpsons, probably because I only watched cartoons on videocassettes instead of actual TV. Just like you, I worry about love and sex and work and suffering and injustice and death, but I also dig drawing bulgy-eyed rabbits with tragic overbites. « All my life I’ve been torn between frivolity and despair, between the desire to amuse and the desire to annoy, between dread-filled insomnia and a sense of my own goofiness. He found himself letting Gobi sleep in his tent at night, giving her food and water out of his own limited supply, and carrying her across numerous rivers, even when he knew it would mean putting him behind in the race or, worse, prevent him from finishing at all.Īlthough Dion did not cross the finish line first, he felt he had won something even greater - a new outlook on life and a new friend that he planned on bringing home as soon as arrangements were made. Whereas in the past these races were all about winning and being the best, his goal now was to make sure his and Gobi's friendship continued well after the finish line. The lovable pup, who would later earn the name Gobi, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the Tian Shan Mountains, across massive sand dunes, through yurt villages and the black sands of the Gobi Desert, keeping pace with him for nearly 80 miles.Īs Dion witnessed the incredible determination and heart of this small animal, he found his own heart undergoing a change as well. A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion.įinding Gobi is the miraculous tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a stray dog while competing in a 155-mile race through the Gobi Desert in China. |