it seemed sort of inappropriate to possibly put a glib, decapitated robot near the description of this book, which is rather heavy, so i'm skipping the rating for now. this is another book for my jewish fiction list. i would recommend reading it, but i would not recommend doing so if a) you are in a really good mood or b) you are eating. this is a holocaust book, a reworking of the hansel and gretel fairy tale in a forest in poland, where a stepmother convinces her husband to abandon his two children as the family flees the SS. a very intense book, and one that i thought was really vivid and well-wrought. it doesn't really shy away from much, so there all manner of terrible and sometimes perverse things that happen in this book, and there are a few parts you might want to skip if you have a weak stomach (like somewhere in the middle, where a young pole decides that he must maim the young children of the village so that the nazis will not take them away). this book might have been popular when it came out -- there was a book club discussion guide in the back.
charmed thirds, megan mccafferty
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i love megan mccafferty. i mean, i LOVE her. i think she is a very funny and sharp writer, and she somehow managed to shrug off any "YA" chains that might have been placed on her. i loved her first two books that feature this character (sloppy firsts and second helpings. so my expectations were very high. and i think i was a little disappointed. i think the time span was too long -- jessica's whole college career. and, i'm no prude, but there was too much sex talk in this. it just seemed out of character. it was still funny and witty, but just not quite what i was looking for.
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