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Summer Days, Starry Nights: An Unexpected Merit

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here is a book review i wrote when i was 12 i think Warning: This review contains minor spoilers:   Okay, let me get this clear: I did NOT expect this book to be enjoyable at all as I picked it out of the bin. See, I was reading some books for the Red Maple reading program, and the only other book that was available in the library was a book I had already read. I'm not really a fan of "teenage girl novels". Well, I was only judging from the cover and the synopsis on the back, which read: Reenie loves everything about her family's summer resort, but even she has to admit that things haven't been perfect lately. So when Gwendolyn Cates arrives to teach dance, it seems like the answer to everyone's prayers.    Gwen is glamorous and cool, and in between dance lessons Reenie begins to see that there is more to life than fishing, campfires and climbing trees. But as the days heat up, she discovers that being a teenager is a lot more complicated than wea

~Fixing Up Korra's Face~

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So probably almost everyone who has watched The Legend of Korra knows about the Pierrot incident. If you don't, here's a quick rundown of what happened: Bryan and Mike didn't originally know that there was going to be more than one season of Korra, so Studio Mir (the animation studio for Korra) only signed a contract for one season of the show. When they got an offer to animate Book 2, they also got another offer from Sony Pictures to animate a show called "The Boondocks." Since the animation process of Korra was so... (How do I word this? Crazy? I'll just use "crazy.") [EDIT: I think the word I was looking for was "tiring".] Since the animation process of Korra was so tiring, they chose to animate Boondocks instead, and Pierrot filled in with animating Korra. Although Pierrot got the job done, there were some... minor issues.  Now that that's out of the way, let's move on to the reason I posted this in the first place. I decide