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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Newer posts →. May 20, 2012 · 8:05 am. The Mysterious Benedict Society. The Mysterious Benedict Society. By Trenton Lee Stewart. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Plot: Four child prodigies are recruited to help save the world. Who needs more than that? I love puzzles, precocious children with immense responsibility, and good, fun writing, so. The Mysterious Benedict Society. Was definitely for me. How about you? Constance is incredibly precocious and outrageously stubborn.
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July | 2012 | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Monthly Archives: July 2012. July 7, 2012 · 1:47 pm. A Wrinkle in Time: Wherein I Read with Myself. A Wrinkle in Time. By Madeleine L’Engle. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. How did the book hold up for current me? I loved it. L’Engle is a masterful story-teller, and I was surprised how quickly she moves it along and how relatively spare her descriptions, etc, are, given the vast images they created for me as a child, images that were re-created in the re-reading. That argum...
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The Plot that Will Never Let You Go | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Three Months Later, I Finally Review THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green. Books that Help Us Remember: Memorial Day →. May 23, 2012 · 9:08 pm. The Plot that Will Never Let You Go. Apparently, creating a Pinterest board for all of my 5-star books. Leads to writing lots of reviews. Here’s another. The Knife of Never Letting Go. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Love a great plot? Hate science fiction, but love dystopian books? Basically, just read it. Well, fine. I’ll. Ness, h...
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June | 2012 | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Monthly Archives: June 2012. June 3, 2012 · 9:21 pm. Today I Cooked Some Goat. I have curried goat simmering on my stove and (organic, brown) basmati rice sitting in my fridge. No big deal, right? Well, for me it’s a milestone. A landmark moment. You see, I am an recovering anti-domestic. In my college years and most of the four years after, I did not do much in the way of housekeeping or cooking. Or budgeting, for that matter! Is cooking on my stove. I also had to l...
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Three Months Later, I Finally Review THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. The Plot that Will Never Let You Go →. May 23, 2012 · 8:30 pm. Three Months Later, I Finally Review THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green. The Fault in Our Stars. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Upon finishing this book, I couldn’t rest until I’d found its next reader. I passed it on at 11:30pm, about 30 minutes after finishing it. Every time I see it on my five star list, I think to myself, “Does that deserve 5-stars? The reviews I read of this book said that it was John Gr...
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Today I Cooked Some Goat | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Books that Help Us Remember: Memorial Day. A Wrinkle in Time: Wherein I Read with Myself →. June 3, 2012 · 9:21 pm. Today I Cooked Some Goat. I have curried goat simmering on my stove and (organic, brown) basmati rice sitting in my fridge. No big deal, right? Well, for me it’s a milestone. A landmark moment. You see, I am an recovering anti-domestic. Is cooking on my stove. I’m proud I have basmati rice cooked. How to look up a recipe. And (sort of) follow it. I also...
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May | 2012 | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Monthly Archives: May 2012. May 28, 2012 · 2:02 pm. Books that Help Us Remember: Memorial Day. Today is Memorial Day in the United States: our three-day weekend that often consists of BBQs, family, and the onset of summer, but – more importantly – provides us with the opportunity to stop and honor the men and women who have died serving in the Armed Forces. 1 Doing My Part. By Teresa R. Funke. During the book, she increasingly tunes in to what is going on in the war,...
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A Wrinkle in Time: Wherein I Read with Myself | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Today I Cooked Some Goat. July 7, 2012 · 1:47 pm. A Wrinkle in Time: Wherein I Read with Myself. A Wrinkle in Time. By Madeleine L’Engle. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. How did the book hold up for current me? I loved it. L’Engle is a masterful story-teller, and I was surprised how quickly she moves it along and how relatively spare her descriptions, etc, are, given the vast images they created for me as a child, images that were re-created in the re-reading. That argument...
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Books that Help Us Remember: Memorial Day | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. The Plot that Will Never Let You Go. Today I Cooked Some Goat →. May 28, 2012 · 2:02 pm. Books that Help Us Remember: Memorial Day. Today is Memorial Day in the United States: our three-day weekend that often consists of BBQs, family, and the onset of summer, but – more importantly – provides us with the opportunity to stop and honor the men and women who have died serving in the Armed Forces. 1 Doing My Part. By Teresa R. Funke. During the book, she increasingly tun...
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April | 2012 | A Hunger to Learn
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A Hunger to Learn. What I Blog About. Monthly Archives: April 2012. April 29, 2012 · 6:03 pm. Mini-Reviews: Books of the Week. This week, I read three new books and re-read one. A longer post is in the works about the re-read ( Ender’s Game. Which I gave away 20 copies of on Tuesday), but I thought I’d do mini-reviews for the other three. What I Read this Week. By Walter Dean Myers. Read a library copy.). Isn’t in the drug scene (he knows better! Slam’s love for basketball is magnetic and catching,...
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