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I am officially moved back into the dorms! I start my sophomore year of college next week, and I couldn't be more excited. But in the midst of all this excitement, it was nice to read a simple, easy read. I just finished This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen. It's one of her most popular books, and I liked it quite a lot! Remy Starr has had four stepfathers, and is about to have a fifth one. Her mother, famous romance novelist Barbara Starr, has flitted from husband to husband for Remy's whole life. With high school finally over, Remy is anxiously awaiting August, when she can escape to Stanford and a new life, away from her mother's writing quirks, her brother's lizards, and a long string of boyfriends. Remy knows boys- to her, they're formulaic, a set pattern that she can always predict. All are kept at arm's length, not seeing the real Remy under her fabricated exterior. And she likes it that way. You see, Remy doesn't believe in love. She's watched her ...

Hello, everyone, from a post-Cursed Child world! I have been reading a lot lately, but it's mostly been rereads of Harry Potter and then my first reading of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. (I didn't do a review of it because I'm not a spoiler-y monster.) But now I'm back in the real world, so I took a trip to space in the form of The Martian by Andy Weir. I loved it! On humanity's third manned trip to Mars, Mark Watney is the crew's botanist and fix-it man. All is going smoothly, until an emergency evacuation leads to disaster- Mark is accidentally left on Mars while the rest of the crew rockets back to Earth. Completely alone, he is thrown into a battle for survival on the barren Red Planet. With his botanical background, mechanical know-how, and razor wit, Mark becomes the hero the human race never expected. His every move is captured by NASA, sent to Earth, and analyzed by every news station. He becomes an intergalactic MacGyver on a survival mission. An...