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An Interview with Angie Smibert
If you’ll recall, last year I read and loved Memento Nora! Lucky for me, Angie Smibert is back with another book, and this time things are getting a bit crazier than before. Aiden Nomura likes to open doors—especially using his skills as a hacker—to see what’s hidden inside. He believes everything is part of a greater system: the universe. The universe shows him the doors, and he keeps pulling until one cracks open. Aiden exposes the flaw, and the universe—or someone else—will fix it. It’s like a game. Until it isn’t. When a TFC opens in Bern, Switzerland, where Aiden is…
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Book Review: Memento Nora
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Memento Nora Author: Angie Smibert Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother,…
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This or That? with Angie Smibert!
Today I’d like you all to welcome Angie Smibert, author of Momento Nora, to my blog! She’s here to play a little game of This or That? For those of you who may not have seen one of these posts before, it’s where I give her a series of questions with two answers, and she picks her favorite! Let’s see what she chooses! Whale, or dolphin? DOLPHIN. I like whales, but dolphins seem joyous. Coffee, or tea? TEA, THEN COFFEE. I drink several cups of nice strong English tea during the day. Then I switch to coffee. Sometimes I write at…