Same as before: no stars = BURN IT, SALT THE EARTH, MAKE SURE NOTHING EVER GROWS THERE AGAIN; five stars = BARFING RAINBOWS, IT'S SO GOOD. My opinion is, of course, subjective.

  • A Brief History of Mountmaray, Michelle Cooper (January, ****)
  • The Raven Boys, Maggie Steifvater (February, ****)
  • The Raven Prince, Elizabeth Hoyt (April, ****)
  • Code Name Verity, Elizabeth E. Wein (May, *****)
  • The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, Jennifer E. Smith (May, ***1/2)
  • Team Human, Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan (June, ***1/2)
  • Gorgeous, Paul Rudnick (June, ****1/2)
  • Just One Day, Gayle Foreman (July, ****1/2)
  • This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith (July, ****)
  • Smart Girls Get What They Want, Sarah Strohmeyer (July, ****)
  • Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein (July, ****)
  • The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Teddy Wayne (July, ***1/2)
  • Speechless, Hannah Harrington (July, ****)
  • How to Be Black, Baratunde Thurston (July, *****)
  • Skin, Donna Jo Napoli (August, ****)
  • Reunited, Hilary Weisman Graham (August, ****; reread)
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth (August, *****)
  • I Think I Love You, Allison Pearson (August, ****)
  • Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell (September, ****)
  • The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Holly Black (September, ****)
  • Self Inflicted Wounds, Aisha Tyler (September, ****)
  • The Diviners, Libba Bray (September, ****1/2; reread)
  • Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age, Mathew Klickstein (December, *****)
jan 16 2013 ∞
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