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Sheauhan Yap sheauhanyap — I wasn't as thrilled with this book as with 'Ghosts of the Titanic'. It was still interesting, but I never really got into it. It's a scientific exploration of the theory that the lost island of Atlantis is modern day Thera (Greek Island in the Aegean Sea), which 'submerged' due to an immense eruption of the volcano on it, around c1640 b.c. It's as detailed as the current archaelogical excavations of the island allow it to be (allowing for the fact that the book was written in 1991), and it also details some other huge volcanic eruptions in modern times, including Mount St Helens and St. Pierre.

Evana Iris compareprice — Moving. A book, characters & story that will stay with me. I loved Jenna and Cameron and their relationship and definitely felt for both characters. Sadly, it had a bittersweet ending, which some people may love. 2010 EDIT: I can still not forget this book for some reason and am tempted to buy it. This book made me cry and I would love to re-read it. Also, now that some time has passed, I've really come to accept how everything turned out and it may have just made this novel so much deeper.

Diego Beas elbeas — Since I'm a big fan of American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang's wonderful award-winning graphic novel about being Chinese-American, I was excited to learn that Yang had another book coming out this summer. Level Up is the story of Dennis Ouyang, a Chinese-American young man who longs to play video games but is denied them by his parents and told to focus on his studies. He loses his father at the end of high school, and immediately goes out to purchase a Nintendo. From that point on, he is focused on nothing but video games, which he is very good at, but loses sight of his studies, and gets kicked out of college his junior year. Four guardian angels, characters from the 8th grade graduation card his father had given to him, come to his aid and turn him around to the point that he ends up in medical school, studying to be a gastroenterologist. Then he begins to question whether or not being a doctor was truly his destiny... It may be unfair to compare Level Up with American Born Chinese, but such comparisons are inevitable. The style and storytelling are very similar in the two books (except that Level Up tells just one story, while American Born Chinese tells three intertwined ones). I appreciate the way that Yang writes about the Chinese-American experience. At first it seems stereotypical... a story about a Chinese-American man choosing between video games (geeky) and medical school (nerdy). But Yang turns this into a thoughtful and entertaining examination of how our family affects our choices, and whether or not that's even a bad thing. Like in American Born Chinese, the ghosts turn out to not be what they seem, but in a slightly ludicrous/campy way. Like American Born Chinese, Level Up is a coming of age tale about being Chinese-American, but has a pretty wide appeal--not just for teens and Chinese-Americans. Level Up just doesn't have the level of cultural transcendence that American Born Chinese did, and a big part of that, in my eyes, are Thien Pham's illustrations. I'm not sure why Yang didn't illustrate Level Up himself, as he did American Born Chinese, because I loved the high-contrast, slick, simple illustrations in ABC. Pham's illustrations in Level Up are simple, but have a dull palate, all grays and beige. Also, the watercolor style doesn't look as refined as ABC's, although I got used to it midway through. In all, Level Up is more of a minor work from Yang, an intriguing introductory work from Pham, and a decent quick (~30 min) read. Ages 15 and up (there isn't really mature content or anything, that's just the age that I think will be interested in this book).