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Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins is A Must Read. Just a note: If you plan on reading The Hunger Games skip this review for now. As the second book in The Hunger Games Trilogy begins, Katniss Everdeen has settled into the victory village, now neighbors to the still perpetually drunken Haymitch and Hunger Games partner [...]
What’s It About? In the Wake of the Boatman is a study of family dynamics and sexuality. The narrative concentrates on the life of Puttnum Douglas Steward, born during the middle of World War Two, and immediately considered better off dead than alive by his father. A flustered icon with a bizarre secret, Puttnum becomes [...]
Where The Mountain Meets The Moon, by Grace Lin is Highly Recommended. Minli is a little girl living with her parents in a small hut near Fruitless Mountain. She wonder why Fruitless Mountain is so barren and desolate, and enjoys the wonderful stories that her father tells her in explanation. She notices, however, that her [...]
Last year I practiced monogamy in books. I read one book at a time until I was finished. It wasn’t a habit that I had before and I decided that I would try it out. I think I read less last year because of it. If I didn’t like a book or got stuck in [...]
The Castaways, by Elin Hilderbrand is Highly Recommended. Greg and Tess McAvoy have drowned in a sailing outing that they have undertaken to celebrate their twelfth wedding anniversary. Greg was not a very experienced sailor and Tess wasn’t a very good swimmer- often afraid of the water. While it’s possible that they drowned in what [...]
Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell is Highly Recommended. Ree Dolly is just sixteen years old when her father leaves and doesn’t come back. The Dollys are a tough clan, living in the Ozarks for years- some take the straight life but mostly they run outside the law and are heavily into manufacturing and dealing crystal [...]
I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend (and a fabulous holiday weekend, if you were celebrating Independence day and the United States)! I had a lot of fun and I have the lack of posts and backed up Google Reader to prove it! While I was away and playing over the weekend, Lenore at Presenting [...]
What’s It About? Your daughter doesn’t come home one night from her summer job. You go there looking for her. No one’s seen here. But it’s worse than that. No one’s ever seen her. So where has she been going every day? And where is she now? In Linwood Barclay’s riveting new thriller, an ordinary [...]
Random.org gave me the magic number for: Sweethearts, by Sara Zarr Here are your random numbers: 31 Timestamp: 2009-07-01 13:37:22 UTC Congratulations! Marie I’ve sent an e-mail your way.
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