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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Chapter Review

The Skinny

(aka Back of the Book Summary in a Sentence)

Sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, overwhelmed with life and desperate to find himself, goes underground in New York, which is apparently the place to be for a successful coming-of-age.
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Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.

When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter Review

The Skinny

(aka Back of the Book Summary in a Sentence)

Jim Hawkins finds himself in possession of a pirate’s treasure map, and like any normal person would, he goes off with his companions on a dangerous search for that treasure. Continue reading “Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Chapter Review”

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Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.

When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.

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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Chapter Review

The Skinny

Writer Kilgore Trout is horrified, as he should be, that people are reading his fiction as non-fiction. Continue reading “Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Chapter Review”

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Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.

When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.

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The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Skinny

If The Parent Trap were set in the 16th century and the kids were not related even though they look like identical twins, then you’d have this book.

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Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.

When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Back of Book Summary in a Sentence

Ford Prefect, an alien who works as a book researcher, saves his human friend Arthur Dent when the Earth gets demolished to build a galactic freeway, but he doesn’t even think about saving anyone else, and really, neither did I.

Review

This is not a comedic, sci-fi, or philosophical novel. This is the perfect trifecta of all three. I laughed, I was intrigued by talk of galactic bureaucracy, and I learned a surprising amount about life. How this happened in just a single chapter, I have no idea. Imagine what the rest of the book has in store.

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Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.

When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.

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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Chapter Review

It’s only the first few pages of the book, but I already feel like I know the essence of the two main characters. Three if the guy peddling lightning rods makes it past the first chapter. Nothing makes a book like a wanderer in emo clothing selling metal sticks.

I’m usually a proponent of kids not talking to strangers, but in this situation, talking to the man who’s asking if your parents are home and if you’ve got money just might save your life. Especially since he has the sixth sense to know which house is going to be struck by lightning in the near future. Makes sense considering his name is Tom Fury. Apparently with that name, you can sense the fury of coming storms. I wonder if Nick Fury can sense the fury of coming alien invasions.

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Gwen thinks that it’s as close to magic as humans can get when a blank Word document is filled with groups of letters, and those groups of letters turn into lines, and those lines turn into a whole new world.

When Gwen isn’t reading or writing, she’s drinking boba milk tea and singing along to Steven Universe. You should sing along with her.

http://www.gweneverpacifico.com