The Book Pile
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paradoxFinished:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past.
3.5/5
Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell
Riley Rose, atheist and bad girl, has been tricked into attending Spirit Ranch, a Christian camp. There she meets Dylan Kier, alumni camper and recent paraplegic, who arrives with a chip on his shoulder and a determination to perfect all of his bad habits. United in their personal suffering and in their irritation at their fellow campers, they turn the camp inside out as they question the meaning of belief systems, test their faith in each other, and ultimately settle a debate of the heart.
4/5
Waiting to be read:
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
The Case for God: What religion really means by Karen Armstrong
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel's daughter, the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is - has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim's identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family's murky past.
3.5/5
Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell
Riley Rose, atheist and bad girl, has been tricked into attending Spirit Ranch, a Christian camp. There she meets Dylan Kier, alumni camper and recent paraplegic, who arrives with a chip on his shoulder and a determination to perfect all of his bad habits. United in their personal suffering and in their irritation at their fellow campers, they turn the camp inside out as they question the meaning of belief systems, test their faith in each other, and ultimately settle a debate of the heart.
4/5
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Computer hacker Marcus spends most of his time outwitting school surveillance until the day that San Francisco is bombed by terrorists--and he and his friends are arrested, taken to a secret prison, and brutally questioned for days. When they release Marcus, the authorities threaten to come for him again if he breathes a word about his ordeal; meanwhile, America has become a police state where everyone is suspect. For Marcus, the only option left is to take down the power-crazed Department of Homeland Security with an underground online revolution.
3/5
3/5
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Frankie’s a fifteen year old girl with a smarts and sass, but the people around her don’t seem to notice this. She’s “Bunny Rabbit” to her family and “adorable” to her boyfriend. But Frankie’s not the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer, especially when it means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. When Frankie instigates a series of pranks using the members of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, nobody has any idea that the mastermind behind the pranks is really Frankie.
4/5
4/5
Waiting to be read:
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
The Case for God: What religion really means by Karen Armstrong