The Basic Eight

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler - Another and I hope my last for awhile, teen read. Not sure who mentioned it - Laura? - but since I read it you don't have to. Unless you like a San Francisco sophisticated-and-think-themselves-witty high school clique who push the envelope at every turn. Flannery Culp is the narrator and protagonist along with her friend Natasha and the remaining six: Jennifer Rose Something, Lily, Gabriel, Douglas, Kate, V._______ and interlopers Flora and Adam. It's way too long considering the story, so have at it if you still would. 

Doubt  A Parable by John Patrick Shanley - The small cast is composed of two nuns, a priest, and a mother of a catholic school middle school student. This is a disturbing play on many many levels. It's about mistrust and intuition and lying and suspicions. And then on top of that it's about race and religion. I think it's good and it goes fast. At the end, you think you might not be in doubt, but then you think about it and wonder about the shadow of a doubt.  I wish I had read it closer to the time that Peter read it for high school english class. The discussion on this one had to have been impassioned.