I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, by Josh Lieb
Oliver Watson, Jr., is an unpopular, overweight, not very smart seventh grader. Well, at least he wants you to think that last part. In reality, he is the titular genius and also rich and powerful, though he gets other people to stand in for him because little kids can’t sign contracts and stuff. You know. … Read more
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (27 April)
Obviously, after the slow but interesting Murder, as I think I will call it from now on, I needed to go back to the YA brain candy. So I did. And it was good. An Abundance of Katherines, as the title suggests, is about a kid called Colin with a lot of Katherines in his … Read more
Fool, by Christopher Moore (26 March − 3 April)
I’ve loved me some Christopher Moore since reading Lamb some crazy-long time ago (a few years?), and then Fluke and Island of the Sequined Love Nun and the others… and this new book does not disappoint! Fool tells the story of King Lear’s fool. Yes, that King Lear. Now, I’ve never actually read the play, … Read more
Beat the Reaper, by Josh Bazell (28 February — 1 March)
Hee. This book was awesome. I’m not sure if it was just so much more awesome coming off of a book I didn’t like or if it’s actually as awesome as I thought it was, but either way it’s a quick and thoroughly entertaining read. Our protagonist, Peter Brown, is a doctor at a crap … Read more
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl (18 August − 3 September)
Ugh. This book. I can’t really decide whether I liked it or not, because I’m not entirely clear on what actually happened in the book. Basically, you’ve got your protagonist, Blue Van Meer, an extremely smart and overly educated 16-year-old who travels around the country with her professor father, never living anywhere for more than … Read more
