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1967 Caldecott Medal Winner Watercolor and maybe some kind of sponge painting or block printing. I like the way the cat was done--it reminds me of Japanese-style ink paintings. A little girl learns the difference between fantasizing and dangerous lies when she gets her friend Thomas into trouble after telling him where to go to find an imaginary baby kangaroo. I thought it was realistic that the girl would have problems after her mother had died, but the message came across as too didactic for me.

i guess i like the hobbit's book more than LOTR's book itself

Way cool to get another look into Eclipse and the jouney the newborns go on to please Riley and Victoria just to kill Bella Swan and destroy the Cullen coven. Interesting to see how vendictive and full of revenge Victoria really was. Crazy vampire lady anyway!

A guide for what a life is like without reproducing. Helpful ways to address the endless questions and thoughtless comments from strangers, family, and friends as you go along the sometimes lonely "road less traveled" without kids.

Out of Whack is yet another winner from Jeff strand. It is not horror though, not even a little, unless you count some of the demented skits that Seth writes up. It is an incredibly fun read though and, like the Andrew Mayhem series, is full of random jokes, interruptions, characters, and so on. As you read, you will come accross things like "Lord of the Unzipped Flies" and statements about toilets with attitude problems that just won't take shit from anybody. The book also contains one of the funniest worst first date stories I have ever heard. The main goal of Seth and his friend Travis ultimately becomes to form a comedy group and it is very interesting to hear how they try to make it in a world that is very unforgiving when it comes to un-funny comedians. All in all, a very good, yet exhausting read for me. It was a bit like watching the extended version of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. It is very funny but after a while the constent randomness, joke after joke, and contradictions become slightly trying.

A good friend gave me this book - said I had to read it, she didn't know what to think. This book will make you think and if you know anyone like Macon, you'll also laugh. But there's a deeper message about identity, hip-hop and the siphoning of Black culture by white America. Mansbach explores how universal hip-hop is, yet how rooted it is in Black diasporic culture and that a love for hip-hop doens't necessarily mean a love for social justice. Mansbach also reflects the structure of hip-hop in his writing approach, using the beats and timing so familiar to those of us from the hip-hop generation. A provocative read - I'd suggest reading it in a book club or with a friend. You're gonna want to talk about it.