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10 best books like Ready, Okay! (Adam Cadre): The Last Catholic in America, All Rivers Flow To The Sea, Various Positions, The Language of Goldfish, To Take A Dare, The Gift of Trouble Sight, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction, Ultimate SAS Survival, New Rules of High School, Wiener Straße

The Last Catholic in America
AuthorJohn R. Powers
ISBN0829421300
“It is fast-moving and often downright funny.”—New York Times

 
“He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment—plus a touch of cynicism—yet never with irreverence.”
—Book-of-the-Month Club News

 
First confession...
All Rivers Flow To The Sea
AuthorAlison McGhee
ISBN1844282511
When a car accident leaves a teenage girl in a coma, her surviving sister struggles with grief and guilt as she faces the inevitability of moving on — and letting go.


To seventeen-year-old Rose, it seems it keeps happening - that car crash on a mountain road, her older sister, Ivy, behind...
Various Positions
AuthorMartha Schabas
ISBN0385668767
Nuanced, fresh, and gorgeously well-written, Martha Schabas' extraordinary debut novel takes us inside the beauty and brutality of professional ballet, and the young women striving to make it in that world. Shy and introverted, and trapped between the hyper-sexualized world of her teenaged friends...
The Language of Goldfish
AuthorZibby Oneal
Carrie Stokes doesn’t like change. After she moves to a new place and has to adjust to a new school, new people in her life, and the challenges of growing up she loses it. Something within her just can’t take it anymore and she starts blacking out, passing out, wandering for hours with no idea of where...
To Take A Dare
AuthorCrescent Dragonwagon
ISBN0553238647
I'm going to be honest with you: at least 60% of the reason I read this is because of its author's cracktastic pen name. In combination with the paperback's cover, the book summary, and a co-writing credit with established YA author Paul Zindel, it absolutely sounds like a 19-year-old human disaster...
The Gift of Trouble Sight
AuthorGuillaume Bianco
ISBN1936393395
Originally published in both ENG and RO on my blog:
http://vanillamoonblog.com/2013/02/10...

My Rating: 1/5

Review

I was intrigued when I read the description of this book and I didn’t hesitate a second and requested it on NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review....
Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction
AuthorNick Montfort
ISBN0262633183
A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game.

Interactive fiction--the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure--has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hypertext fiction and the conversational...
Ultimate SAS Survival
AuthorJohn Wiseman
ISBN0007312857
THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLER




THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SURVIVING ANYWHERE



Ultimate SAS Survival is the complete companion for adventurers everywhere. From making camp and finding food in the wild to security and self-defence in the streets, be prepared...
New Rules of High School
AuthorBlake Nelson
ISBN0670036447
I had thought there was a lot of freedom being a good student, being trusted, being given special privileges, but that was nothing compared to the freedom I felt now. Once people gave up on you, once people wrote you off, now that was freedom.

Max Caldwell is tired. He's tired of having a "perfect"...
Wiener Straße
AuthorSven Regener
ISBN3869711361
Ein großer Roman voll schräger Vögel in einer schrägen Welt. Wer könnte böser und zugleich lustiger und liebevoller darüber schreiben als »Herr Lehmann«-Erfinder Sven Regener?

Kreuzberg, Anfang der 80er Jahre – das war ein kreativer Urknall, eine surreale Welt aus Künstlern,...
Jersey Angel
AuthorBeth Ann Bauman
It’s the summer before senior year and the alluring Angel is ready to have fun. She’s not like her best friend, Inggy, who has a steady boyfriend, good grades, and college plans. Angel isn’t sure what she wants to do yet, but she has confidence and experience beyond her years. Still, her summer doesn’t...
Senior Season
AuthorTom Perrotta
A glimpse into parallel lives in a suburban town Tom Perrotta has made recognizably his in novels like ELECTION, LITTLE CHILDREN and this fall's THE LEFTOVERS. Clay wouldn't have said his life was defined by his place on the high school football team's roster, but when he's sidelined by injury, everything,...
Narrative Fiction: Contemporay Poetics
AuthorShlomith Rimmon-Kenan
ISBN0415280222
What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field, Narrative Fiction turns its attention to these and other questions.

In...
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism
AuthorFrank Furedi
ISBN0826490964
The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public issues - we now have only facile pundits, think-tank apologists, and spin doctors. In the age of the knowledge...
The Hole in the Universe
AuthorK.C. Cole
ISBN0156013177
An adventure into the heart of Nothing by bestselling author K. C. Cole.

Once again, acclaimed science writer K. C. Cole brings the arcane and acad-
emic down to the level of armchair scientists in The Hole in the Universe,
an entertaining and edifying search for nothing at all. Open...
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (Faber Poetry)
AuthorTed Hughes
ISBN0571192637
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more...
Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
ISBN0919123775
This is my second time through this book and I'm learning so much more than the first time. Take this quote on individuation as an example of Von Franz's accurate, yet broad definitions: "the process of individuation results in an incredible hardening of the individual against others, while consciously...
Recollections of Rosings
AuthorRebecca Ann Collins
ISBN1402224508
A disaster at Rosings unearths long-hidden secrets

Catherine Harrison and Becky Tate, daughters of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park, domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh; but as adults their paths have diverged dramatically.

When...
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
AuthorPaul Bowles
ISBN0872860027
These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself...
Girl in Shades
AuthorAllison Baggio
ISBN1770410503
Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality. For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes hear what’s going on inside their heads. These insights make everyone a bit more interesting, but the one person she’ll never figure out is her mother. Marigold...
Selected Poems
AuthorTony Harrison
ISBN0141024437
Do not confuse this Tony Harrison with the pink shaman in The Mighty Boosh! Harrison is our top Northern poet who came to public attention after 'V's performance on Channel 4 – the furore from right wing newspapers and MPs over the 'FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY' raised, ironically, the issue of language...
The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism
AuthorRobert A. Greenberg
ISBN0393094154
Backgrounds includes correspondence between Swift and members of his circle and observations by his contemporaries Criticism offers evaluations by Norman O. Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams,...
All the Conspirators
AuthorChristopher Isherwood
ISBN0811207250
تمام دسیسه‌چینان کلید شناخت ایشروود و، خاصه، دهۀ 1920 است. این اثر به اندازۀ هرآنچه تاکنون نوشته پخته، خوانا و منسجم است.
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