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Bitter Seeds

by Ian Tregillis
- Rated 5 stars
“Fantastic. I picked this book up at the Williamson lectureship at ENMU. I wanted a signed copy and read through the first pages of all the offerings and really clicked with this one. When I asked the author to sign it, he was so endearingly humble and nerdy that I just knew this would be a great book. I absolutely devoured it and am really upset that I have to wait for the rest.”

Opal wrote this review Monday, May 23, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith
- Rated 5 stars
“This is one of my favorite books. It combines the angst of coming of age with the drama of working class fiction. In the book, the main character's mother decides the children should read a page a day of Shakespeare and the Bible; I think everyone should read this book as well. Heck, it might even be more important than Shakespeare to Americans. ”

Opal wrote this review Monday, March 15, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë
- Rated 0 stars
“Oh so good, oh so Victorian.”

Opal wrote this review Monday, March 1, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger
- Rated 2 stars
“WEll, I heard plenty of mixed reviews on this book and I have to say. I'm not that impressed. Parts of it were great, parts were original, parts were bizzare, and parts were just icky. I found that the descriptions in the sex scenes were just crass, and strange. Plus I couldn't help feeling that maybe the author got some perverse joy out of torturing her creation.”

Opal wrote this review Saturday, July 4, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
If I'm Waiting on God, Then What Am I Doing in a Christian Chatroom?: Confessions of a Do-It-Yourself Single

by Kerri L. Pomarolli
- Rated 2 stars
“Well, this started out funny, fresh, and interesting and turned into something that resembled a teenager's diary asking "Why don't I have a man?" I got bored and quit reading.”

Opal wrote this review Monday, June 29, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Frog and Toad Are Friends

by Arnold Lobel
- Rated 0 stars
“Please, read this with your kids.”

Opal wrote this review Sunday, June 7, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Frog and Toad Together

by Arnold Lobel
- Rated 0 stars
“Old favorite, great to sit in an armchair with a kid you love and share great literature with them.”

Opal wrote this review Sunday, June 7, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death

by Richard Peck
- Rated 4 stars
“This is the first Blossom Culp book I read and although I was a bit out of sequence, it was delightful! Blossom is an exciting, fun, resourceful character and her adventures with the beyond into which she drags Alexander, are ingenious, educational, and unforgetable. ”

Opal wrote this review Sunday, June 7, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Education of Ruby Loonfoot

by Paxton Riddle
- Rated 5 stars
“I would class this book right up there with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. If you think that the mistreatment of Native Americans ended around the turn of the century or consider America a country with religious freedom, you must read this book. This novel is haunting and unforgetable, and the images of the torture, rape, and spiritual imprisonment will face you every time you close your eyes. At the conclusion of this book I cried, for while some children escape, thousands more nameless children are stuck under the thumbs of the "gods" called Chruch and BIA. ”

Opal wrote this review Tuesday, June 2, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
These Our Actors

by Ashley McConnell
- Rated 4 stars
“I usually don't read novels that accompany tv series because they feel a bit too much loke fan fiction to me, but somehow I ended up with a handful of Buffy the Vampire Slayer books when I was in high school. This one was pleasantly suprising. I liked the idea of theatres containing energy within them as if every perfomance created a cast of living beings that was doomed to do no more than occupy the theatrical space. ”

Opal wrote this review Saturday, May 30, 2009. ( reply | permalink )