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Friday, May 2, 2014

Friday Memes: May 2

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Participants don't dig for their favorite book, the coolest, or the most intellectual. They use the one they are currently reading.

Book: The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

Genre/Type: Realistic YA fiction

Book Beginnings:
      It started in detention. No surprises there, right? Detention was invented by the same idiots who dreamed up the time-out corner.
Friday 56: 
     "Innocent?" I served the ball so hard she squealed and dove for the ground. "He won't leave me alone! Look what he did to my arm! That's assault."
     "Assault with a Sharpie?"
My thoughts: Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of Speak which is still a tremendously popular novel in my library, with good reason. It is such an awesome books kids overlook that it was published over 15 years ago.

Now Halse writes another book on a tough subject--- the topic is PTSD. It is a very timely topic. I am looking forward to this read, er, listen. I picked up the audiobook in the library today.

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