JEAN MELEK

Recommended by some students. Good, but not as good as The Fault in Our Stars.

Personal, brave, and honest. I read this weeks before Nora Ephron died, and now I feel like I miss her.

Quite the page turner. Not a great work of literature, but good for what it is.

My favorite Patchett book so far.

Great book. I can see teaching this in grade 9 or 10. Kids would love its honesty and humor.

Pretty disturbing but a real page turner.

Light but held my attention throughout.

I really like John Green as a person, altruist, and Youtube personality, but I couldn't muster a crap about these kids/characters. Maybe I was just on a YA overload after reading An Abundance of Katherines.

Funny

An interesting sci-fi concept mostly well-executed.

Love Stacey Abrams but I couldn't get through it. Just not for me

Maybe I'm not smart enough for this book.

Recommended for all English teachers.

A little tedious

Bad writing, stupid stories, but some laugh out loud spots.

Just alright.

A funky story narrated by a fetus with elements inspired by Hamlet. Didn't love it, but it kept my attention.

I like the sense of place but like The Goldfinch, the text felt too long.

Beautiful, brutal, intertwined story. I'd like to add it to my teaching rotation sometime soon.

Too much cricket for my taste.

I love Aziz but this was really not interesting.

Good story with nice character parallels (2 husbands, 2 mothers, 2 soldiers) but a little two dimensional to be great.

I think this will be pretty helpful in the classroom. I've read The Great Gatsby many times over, but even I was able to look at some things differently through Corrigan's explication.

It was OK. Not enough celebrity dish for my taste.

I think Eggers is probably prophetic when he alludes to the Googleization of the world.