Mister Brightside

Jessan is eighteen. He lives in the fictional city of Springfield where he shares a 1960s Volkswagon bug with two odd looking fireflies. Basically, Jessan is no different from any other college kid. He enjoys long walks, writing in his journal, rock music, and ferris wheel rides.

2010 READS

Books Read in 2010:

  1. “The Alison Rules” by Catherine Clark
  2. “The Truth About Forever” by Sarah Dessen
  3. “Lock and Key” by Sarah Dessen
  4. “Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen” by Dyan Sheldon
  5. “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink
  6. “Frangipani” by Celestine Vaite
  7. “Artemis Fowl : Time Paradox” by Eoin Colfer
  8. “How to Be Lost” by Amanda Eyre Ward
  9. “Best American Essays 2000”
  10. “Best American Short Stories 2001”
  11. “Eleven Minutes” by Paulo Coelho
  12. “Veronika Decides to Die” by Paulo Coelho
  13. “The Witch of Portobello” by Paulo Coelho
  14. “Eating Chinese Food Naked” by Mei Ng
  15. “Diary of A Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney
  16. “From the Mixed-up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler”by E.L. Konigsburg
  17. “Joy School” by Elizabeth Berg
  18. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time” by Mark Haddon
  19. “The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn” by Janis Hallowell
  20. “Babyji” by Abha Dawesar
  21. “Love Monkey” by Kyle Smith
  22. “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Mitch Albom
  23. “Zigzag” by Ellen Wittlinger
  24. “Wringer” by Jerry Spinelli
  25. “Love, Stargirl” by Jerry Spinelli

Short-stories Read:

  1. “Starbucks Boy” by David Levithan
  2. “My Massive Feeling (Fragements from A Diary of A Young Girl)” by Laurie Weeks

Re-read:

  1. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold
  2. “Artemis Fowl : The Arctic Incident” by Eoin Colfer