AwakeBy Elizabeth Graver Pingeon
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Awake
By Elizabeth Graver Pingeon
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Island By Jane Scott Summary: As her friendship with Harry slowly grows, eleven-year-old Tina is shocked to learn that Harry's father has plans other than preservation for an island off the New England coast about which she has a special feeling.
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Ned Vizzini's novel "Be More Chill" is so accurate that it should come with a warning: May Lead to Horrified Recognition in Any Reader Who Has Ever Been, or Known, a Sexually Frustrated Teenage Boy. Vizzini anatomizes high school lust and social scheming without any condescending reassurance. If it weren't so funny, his first novel might be too painful to read.
Jeremy Heere is a prototypical loser of the 21st century. His pleasures come from Internet porn--expect hilariously explicit language and sexuality throughout--and not much else. His extensive humiliations, on the other hand, are tallied on preprinted sheets with categories like Snicker, Laugh, Refusal to Return a Head Nod and "Mortification Even (a catch-all)." Jeremy knows enough to recognize that "being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth," and when the opportunity to purchase a "squip" arises, he knows that it's his only hope. A squip is a swallowable supercomputer that does homework, picks out clothes and, most important, helps talk to girls. "Human social activity is governed by rules," the squip tells Jeremy, "and I have the processing capacity to understand, obey and utilize those rules."
The concept is original enough, but the fun comes in the execution, particularly in the dialogues between Jeremy and his wisecracking electronic mentor. When the squip fails Jeremy, leading to a wry denouement, it's a failure of rules, not imagination. "I'm badly programmed," says the squip. "Get version 4.0 when it comes out."
-New York Times Book Review, 5/16/04
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The Architecture of
Delano & Aldrich This book portrays the unprecedented
talent and vision that led the architecture firm of Delano & Aldrich to the
top of its field at the beginning of the twentieth century. Eighteen
buildings are examined in detail, and the firm's complete oeuvre is
cataloged, with more than 250 photographs and drawings spanning the full
breadth of their work. 250 b/w illustrations. The Honey Thief Born in 1964, Elizabeth Graver is the author of two novels, The Honey
Thief and Unravelling, and a short story collection, Have You Seen Me?,
which was awarded the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories and
essays have appeared in many journals and been anthologized in Best American
Essays, Best American Stories, and Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards. The
recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts, she attended Wesleyan University and Washington
Unversity in St. Louis and is currently an Associate Professor of English at
Boston College. She lives outside of Boston with her husband Jimmy Pingeon
and their young daughters, Chloe Graver Pingeon and Sylvie Pingeon, and she
is currently at work on a new novel. ________________________________________________________________ Grade 8 Up-The
author, who is described as being a little on the geeky side and not too
suave with girls, recorded his high school experiences between the ages of
15 and 18. These essays, originally published in the New York Press and New
York Times Magazine, now appear in this compilation. Vignettes do not
necessarily lend themselves to a straightforward plot, so the fiercely
intelligent and introspective Vizzini concentrates on style rather than
action. His wonderfully sardonic voice, like...
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