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Showing posts with label Cooney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooney. Show all posts

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Three Black Swans, by Caroline Cooney

Three Black Swans One of the worst books I've read in a long time- an early entry into worst book of the year.
Caroline Cooney strikes me as the kind of writer who clips news articles, and then shuffles them into a novel. Absurd coincidences and a wretched plot, kind of Jodi Picoult for kids.
3 girls, two raised as cousins, find out that they are triplets, separated at birth- you know what, life is too short to elaborate on this crap.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

They Never Came Back, by Caroline B. Cooney


Caroline Cooney at her most Face-on-the-Milk-Carton ridiculous best/worst whatever it is. Implausable drama. Cathy enrolls in an intensive summer Latin course, only to have another student confront her, claiming that she is really Murielle (Murielle? Really?) his long lost cousin, the child of a hedge fund managing couple who had to flee the country when their fund collapsed and it was about to come out that they had stolen the money. Murielle was supposed to have been with them when her parents left the country, but her aunt wouldn't take her to the airport, and subsequently lost Murielle to child protective services... it isn't worth it to type this nonsense.
I am going to go read something good to wash my brain.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Code Orange, by Caroline B. Cooney


Fast paced action adventure bioterror YA.
Mitty can’t believe he has to actually use books to do his science project. Don’t his teachers know that everything is on the internet anyway? But once he starts his project, it becomes more interesting – and dangerous- than he could have ever thought. On the run from bioterrorists, will Mitty have to sacrifice himself – to save the world?
“They didn’t use Mitty’s favorite phrase, hot agent. Lethal incurable disease was their term…”