does here somes peter cottontail count?

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Here's mine... I plowed through this one at Christmas in like 3 days.... AWESOME!

I love Harry Potter too!

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My Scrapping Goal for 2005 is 200 layouts
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Layout Goal for MAY : 12 Completed : 5

Stacy! I LOVE Click, Clack Moo. Cows that Type... and we also are enjoying Giggle, Giggle Quack (but not as much)

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My Scrapping Goal for 2005 is 200 layouts
I have finished 28 layouts towards my goal!

Layout Goal for MAY : 12 Completed : 5

I'm waiting to see what book Nevermore will highlight next.

DVC was great too, Carole, but I feel like I have to do a bunch of research to find out what is true after readding it. LOL I asked for Duck for President for DS2 2nd bday. Hopefully it'll live up to the other books. Giggle Giggle Quack was not quite as good but still very enjoyable bedtime reading.

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This is really a book for adolescents. I enjoyed it if only for the memories--the angst of fifteen. The structure was a little overreaching for my taste. There is the first person narrative of Jessie (15) and Marta (70), the diaries of Jessie and Marta, the current letters of Marta and the diary of Florrie (1940s). Could have readily and easily discarded both Florrie's diary and Marta's letters and gained much in a cleaner, tighter storyline.

I never tire of reading stories set in Toronto. The first one I remember is Atwood's "Life Before Man" and I revelled in the ROM and the restaurant at the corner of Avenue Road and Bloor. Feel the same way about the local references in Kreuger's novel.

I would have enjoyed far more attention, detail and history re Amsterdaam during the Occupation. It very much felt like Krueger merely sketched a possiblity rather than researched or felt the world about which she was writing. As it is written, I have very little emotional reaction to Marta. Without enough information to understand her world, I cannot begin to understand her and therefore feel little for her. I don't believe she is merely meant for shock value but her true foil is Florrie, not Jessie. To me, her death is as incomprehensible as her life. Simply, she is maddeningly underwritten. And this is why my recommendation is for teens only. Not because they should suffer bad writing but because Jessie is so wonderfully portrayed that she is probably reason enough to read the novel.

This is fun! I just created my first avatar.

I love Sue Grafton's books. I even named a cat after Kinsey Millhone...call me a geek

I also love the HP books. Can't wait for the Half-Blood Prince. I read DaVinci Code last year in about 3 days. I think I'd like to read it again. I thought parts of it were a little unbelievable...but this is coming from the queen of the mystery novel! My current fav is Linda Fairstein.

Here's mine. I loved Little Women!

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I'm completely unhappy with mine but it will have to do. It took me three and half hours just trying to pic only one!!!
i thought i'd just do a library because i like so many authors but then thought, well this book influenced me a lot. i also nearly did dr seuss (talk about another major influence) and then kathy reichs and dr gary chapman and the list goes on and on. so maybe i'll change it when i take a photo of my bookcase lol

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