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Amanda's Bookshelf

I'm a culture junkie who works at a bookstore. Pop, high-brow, junk -- it's all good. I try and consume it all. I read tons, especially young adult fiction. I also love quirky, offbeat novels; cultural analysis; mythology; girly fiction; fantasy; screwball romantic comedies; books with extremely flawed characters, yet somehow you really empathize with them; nonlinear narratives and language play.

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Currently reading

The Runaway King

Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Lost Girl

Sangu Mandanna

Another Little Piece

Kate Karyus Quinn

Moranthology

Caitlin Moran

There Is No Dog

Meg Rosoff

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

Fated

S.G. Browne

Room

Emma Donoghue

Topics About Which I Know Nothing

Patrick Ness

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

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Love - Angela Carter

The Mysterious Madam Morpho - Delilah S. Dawson

The Party (The Propostion, #0.5) - Katie Ashley

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

4:00 pm 31 July 2003

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market - Eric Schlosser

Such an interesting topic, but written in such a sensational, dumbed-down style -- what a shame! It was like a tabloid version of this study; the style felt like the author was trying to shock more than inform (and that's excluding the fact that most of this information I already knew).