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On My Shelves The Raising: A Novel, by Laura Kasischke Seven Years: A Novel, by Peter Stamm My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, by Cindy Jones Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy), by Lauren DeStefano On My Wishlist Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason, by Anne Roiphe Every Day By [...]
On My Shelves Satori, by Don Winslow Wishlist The Complaints, by Ian Rankin The Altar of the Bones: A Novel, by Philip Carter The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel, by Téa Obreht
On My Shelves Dark Mirror: A Novel, by M.J. Putney – I read Dark Mirror a few weeks ago and I found it to be very enjoyable. It’s the first in a series, but even though you can see that there can be more to the story, it works very well by itself. I Am [...]
In typical avid reader style, my eyes are bigger than my stomach and though my stacks are stuffed to the gills with books I want to read, there are still more that have managed to catch my attention. Are you planning on reading any of these? Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, by [...]
Hardcover Releases And I Shall Have Some Peace Here: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road, by Margaret Roach – February 23, 2011 Paperback Releases The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, by Heidi Durrow – February 16, 2011
Hardcover Releases American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, by Daniel Rasmussen – January 1, 2011 The Water Wars, by Cameron Stracher – January 1, 2011 Nocturne, by Syrie James – January 4, 2011 The Girl Who Became A Beatle, by Greg Taylor – January 4, 2011 Three Seconds, by Anders Roslund, [...]
So my week of Sherlock postings will have to continue over the weekend. I would have been wrapped up, but I have had a sinus infection all week and am just now starting to mend. However, despite raging fevers and the hideous pain in my head, I did manage to crawl to the door to [...]
Jen (Devourer of Books) and I decided to take on the legendary Sherlock Holmes for our next podcast exploring the classics, What’s Old Is New. The plan is to read up on some Holmes to get an idea of what makes him a literary figure that stands the test of time, if in fact we [...]
I have just passed the midpoint of the Blob Game (Biggest Loser of Books) with Natasha, Amy, Dawn, Candace and Jen. Up until yesterday I was the uncontested lead, having culled 161 book that I have listed on our BLOB Spreadsheet. I have some more to add, but since they are not on the sheet, [...]
I have been seeing reviews of this book since way back in when it first came out in hardcover, and even though most all of those reviews were positive I resisted picking up a copy. The last time I did that was with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, and we [...]
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