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Girl Interrupted
Before the movie of the same name, there was Susanna Kaysen’s 1967 book: Girl Interrupted. A book that highlighted life in a Massachusetts mental institution for the rich; a book that highlights teenage girls’ obsession with diets, figures, and Ex-Lax; a book about racism; a book about drugs, suicide, and incest; a book about institutional […]
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Here’s a Laird Koenig novel about a young girl with secrets, who lives alone, and lives in her head. However, Rynn is not a normal child because everyone around her disappears. Where are her parents, because nobody has seen them.
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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
Here’s my take on the 2007 Swedish novel “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larrson. It’s the last novel in a trilogy about a hacker, Lisbeth Salander. Essentially, the novel’s ideas have been done to death in the past, but this novel reinterprets those old ideas in a different way to mainly […]
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Jumper Griffen’s Story
In regards to highlights, the 2007 novel “Jumper Griffin’s Story,” by Steven Gould, picks up before Jumper, the 2008 movie. It’s about Griffin O’Connor, a jumper a.k.a teleporter. With that, Griffen’s family Is on the run from the Paladins, a secret world-wide shadowy organization. Moreover, Griffen winds up wth an undocumented immigrant family in order […]
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