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Foiled by Jane Yolen My rating: 3 of 5 stars This graphic novel is about a high school girl who is an avid fencer. She feels she doesn’t fit in socially, but focuses on her sport and spending time with her cousin. Things begin to change for her when her mother finds her a new [...]

White Cat by Holly Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars White Cat is the first book in a new series about curse workers. It takes place in an alternate reality where some people can manipulate certain things by just touching them with their hands. With just a touch, someone could change your luck, emotions, [...]

Libyrinth by Pearl North My rating: 4 of 5 stars Far in the future a unique girl lives in the Libyrinth, a giant building with mazes of shelves that hold more books than can be counted. Haly has a secret and she is afraid of what will happen if they find out that she can [...]

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another fun book, political issues and personal issues collide now that the two-natured are out. Someone is trying to get Sookie in trouble (again), but it could be any of the many people and supernatural beings that aren’t so fond of our [...]

What’s more exciting than finding not one, but two new limited edition M&Ms in the candy aisle? Making all your friends try them and tell you what they think! I found new Wildly Cherry M&Ms with no fanfare on a break from class. Why hadn’t I been informed of a new flavor? I immediately bought [...]

Stranger than Fiction stars Will Ferrell as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent that begins to hear a female voice narrating his life. The voice not only has intimate knowledge of his actions and thoughts but foretells his imminent death. Harold is understandably upset when he hears this and seeks help from a friend, a [...]

Captain Jack Sparrow is a marked man. He can outrun the law, but he can’t outrun the debt he owes to Davy Jones. The heartless squid-face is coming to collect and just like the first movie, Jones is just one of the people in line. Everyone is chasing Jack for a different reason and just [...]

Is the third X-men movie really the last? I hope not, because that would be a disappointing end to an excellent franchise. This movie finds our heros and villains at odds over a cure for being a mutant, with some reacting with happiness or anger, and some fearful that it will be used as a [...]

What do you get when you take the plot of Anchorman, shoot it from the point of view of Christina Applegate, set it in Chicago, and take out everything funny? Pepper Dennis. Pepper Dennis (Rebecca Romijn) is a career minded reporter gunning for the local anchor position. In a move I’ve seen too many times [...]

Now that Dancing with the Stars is over I need to get my vicarious dancing fix elsewhere. I just saw a movie that reminded me again how cool it would be if I could tango. How come all they ever taught at my school was square dancing (the state dance of Illinois, I kid you [...]