Svetlana's Reads and Views

Name of Book: Stop Me If You Heard This One Before Author: David Yoo ISBN: 978-1-4231-0907-5 Publisher: Hyperion Type of book: Asian male/white female, interracial relationship, cancer, social skills, high school, young adult, friendship, high school society Year it was published: 2008 Summary: If Albert Kim has learned one thing in his tragic adolescence, it's that God (probably a sadistic teenaged alien) does not want him to succeed at Bern High. By the end of sophomore year, Al is so tired of humiliation that he's chosen to just forget girls and high school society in general, and enjoy the Zen-like detachment that comes from being an intentional loser. Then he meets Mia Stone, and all the repressed hormones come flooding back. Mia, his co-worker at the Bern Inn, is adorable, popular, and most intimidatingly, the ex- long-term girlfriend of Ivy-bound, muscle-bound king of BHS and world class jerk, Ryan Stackhouse. But -- chalk it up to the magic of Al...

Name of Book: Girls for Breakfast Author: David Yoo ISBN : 0-440-23883-8 Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Type of book: Racism, growing up, friendship, love, girls, ethnicity, life, school, elementary school, middle school, high school, 1980s?-1990s? Year it was published: 2005 Summary: Drumstick legs, cherry-colored lips, dumpling cheeks...everything about them, he wants to eat up. But he's dateless and has been since he discovered girls in the third grade, and he's convinced himself that this is solely based on the fact that he's the only Korean American teenage in Renfield- the fifth richest (and WASPiest) town in Connecticut. In Nick's mind, he sticks out like a "banana in a wheat field." Now it's time for Nick to figure it out once and for all. Is it all in his head, or are his suspicions that his heritage is keeping him from a triumphant boob fest true? Characters: For me personally Nick is both a character I hate, yet I seem to unde...