Okay — I read most of these a while ago… take everything with a bit of a grain of salt. Sometimes a bad mood or a bad day can affect how I react to a book. (Thanks to Julie for the Reject Pile idea…)

National Velvet, Enid Bagnold (I found it boring. I tried to like it, I really did.)

The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot (If this can get published, I can get published. It’s terrible. The movie is so much better.)

The White Mountains, John Christopher (It was an interesting premise, but didn’t really hold together well.)

The Witches, Roald Dahl (I liked some of his other books, which were delightfully weird. This one was just weird.)

Eva, Peter Dickenson (A girl wakes up from a coma as a chimp. Enough said.)

Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz (By the time I got to this one, the third in the Alex Rider series, I felt like: “Yawn. How much more can this kid go through? How boring.”)

The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Liz Kessler(A great premise; unfortunately, lousy execution. It’s not that it was bad, it just wasn’t good.)

The Wish, Gail Carson Levine (It was okay… but she seems to be stuck in a rut.)

Roanoke, Sonia Levitin (Okay. I don’t remember why I didn’t like this one.)

Story Girl, L.M. Montgomery (I read this in an attempt to see what her other books are like. Anne of Green Gables is better. This one is interesting, but the ending just falls off and you don’t really get to know or care about the characters.)

Zel, Donna Jo Napoli (Don’t remember exactly why, I just remember being turned off by it.)

Fair Weather, Richard Peck (It was okay; I just like his other book – A Year Down Yonder – better.)

The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, vols 1 and 2), Philip Pullman (His anti-adult, anti-religious positions tuned me off.)

If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson (The only reason this was published was because it was “politically correct”: a Jewish girl falls in love with a black boy. The story itself was uninteresting.)

Dream Soul, Lawrence Yep (I found it uninteresting.)