The Stars and the Cookie Jar

Everlost, Neal Shusterman: This innovative and well-paced book shakes up the I SEE DEAD PEOPLE genre, but stumbles with simplistic language and some irrelevant character detail that needs to have been cleaned away in a book this short.

The United States of Arugula: How We Became A Gourmet Nation, David Kamp: This is a chatty, informative history of the foodie movement, but there's an undue focus on personal scandals and I don't need to see the word cock in my foodie memoir EVER, unless it's a typo preceding au vin.

More to come. I am glad I picked both of these up, but both need editing/don't sit in their chosen genre very well/will benefit from a final polish.