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-4. Requested Books To Be Reviewed and Rated
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2. Yes, people may review and rate a book that has been reviewed and rated before, as long as you have read it, obviously. The more, the merrier. xd

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Ok, in this post will be the list of reviewed and rated books submitted to this thread. Here will contain links to the reviewed and rated books. The books will be listed with the title and the author that wrote it.

Reviewed and Rated Books:

1. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross [reviewed by X-intercept]
2. The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon [reviewed by Mianio]
3. The Sea Of Trolls by Nancy Farmer [reviewed by [[ Nex]


wahmbulance exclaim IMPORTANT NOTE: Obviously, I will not be able to keep up with every book reviewed and rated, so I will need helpers with this. If you'd like to help, PM me and I will tell you what you need to do.

An extra reserved post, just in case.
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It's open, I guess.
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I will start off with a book that I just finished reading for the second time.

Title: Pope Joan

Author: Donna Woolfolk Cross

Brief Summary: This book is about a woman named Joan disguised as a man and turning into a Pope, the highest power in the Church. It is considered historical fiction since Pope Joan is a legend and it is not known if there really was a female Pope. The book is basically a play on this legend, but it is so believably good that you might even start believing the plot.

It starts off with Joan being born and how she grows up under a very religious father that abused her mother and herself because they were both female (Back in the 9th century, women were considered inferior to men.) Then, Joan secretly learns how to read and write by being taught by her brother. She grows up being tutored by a philosopher who sees her intelligence. She then decides she wants to be a scholar because she loves learning and disguises herself as a man. The rest of the book tells of her struggle when slowly rising in status in the Church.

Review: Well, first of all, I loved the way Cross twisted the legend of Pope Joan into such a believable story. My gosh, this book had me intrigued! From when the book starts to when it ends, the story will have you amazed. The vocabulary in the book would be considered on a difficult level and it contains a lot of Latin phrases (most of which will be translated). It also has a lot of archaic English, but it is understandable.

This was my second time reading the book, but I still loved it as if I was reading it for the first time.

Rating: 10/10

Recommend To: I will admit, I do highly recommend it. If you have read any of Dan Brown's books, you will know that there is some fact mixed with fiction. This is basically Pope Joan, but it is written much better (let's be frank, Dan Brown isn't an exceptional writer).

Miano, your book seems very interesting! 3nodding
I'd certainly like to read it someday.

I like to read books that show perspective of illnesses and diseases from someone who has it because it demonstrates what they go through and that they're really not different from other people.

Ah, but I promise you, Christopher does not suffer from cancer smile

Title: The Sea of Trolls
Author: Nancy Farmer (Author of The House Of Scorpions)
Brief Summary: Jack, a young Anglo-Saxon Farm boy is chosen by the mysterious Bard that lives outside of his village to be an understudy and learn the mysteries of the Druids, the Gods, and magic. After learning about the strange World Tree, Yggdrasil, and harnessing the life force the strange tree gives off, The Bard meets the attack of strange nightmarish Horse and it's hellish rider.

Soon after the attack, Jack sees that the attack left the Bard in a strange stupor, but has no time to unravel the mystery as a gang of Berserker Northmen raid his village and kidnap his little sister, and himself. Jack is thrown into a world of carnage, magic, and an evil Shape Shifting Half troll queen.
Review: This book is one of the best I've ever read. So well researched, so well written... It's a tale of a boy finding his ability to weave the most power force of all, his own will.
Rating: 10/10
Recommend To: Anyone interested in ancient Europe, and it's nature worshipping religions.