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Mini Reviews

May 4, 2012

Sadly, I fell WAY behind on my 2011 reviews. So, I’ve been posting mini reviews to help catch up. This is the last round! Check out round one, round two, and round three, if you like. Though all of these books deserve their own posts, this will have to do. The Wednesday Wars, by Gary [...]

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On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

April 24, 2012

Title: On the Road Author: Jack Kerouac Pages: 313 Originally Published: 1957 Format I Read: Hardback Publisher: Penguin Rating: ____________________________ I originally gave this book two stars on goodreads, just moments after I finished it. I was rather disgusted with it. But, in the ensuing days, the book stuck with me and won itself an [...]

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Mini Reviews

April 10, 2012

Sadly, I fell WAY behind on my 2011 reviews. So, occasionally, I’ll be posting mini reviews to help catch up. This is round three. Check out round one and round two, if you like. Though all of these books deserve their own posts, this will have to do. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by [...]

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks

March 7, 2012

Okay dokey. This book is jumping the queue for reviews because I just need to have it out and done. One of my book clubs generally picks one nonfiction book to read a year, and this is it this year. I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this. TMWMHWFAH is essentially [...]

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I Am Not a Serial Killer, by Dan Wells

February 23, 2012

Dan Wells is a local author. And several of my blogging and IRL friends recommended this series. As an added bonus, every book in the series has already been published. With all of this encouragement, I delved in. John Wayne Cleaver is a sociopath. And a teenager. To keep him from indulging in his psychopathic [...]

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Mini Reviews

February 15, 2012

Sadly, I fell WAY behind on my 2011 reviews. So, occasionally, I’ll be posting mini reviews to help catch up. This is round two. Check out round one, if you like. Though they all deserve their own posts, this will have to do. Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson Rating: My third encounter with Laurie Halse [...]

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Paranormalcy, by Kiersten White

February 13, 2012

Oh. I wanted to like this one more than I did. But I still liked this debut from Kiersten White. Evie, child-now-teenaged wonder, can see through the glamours that paranormals put on to appear normal. She is the star of an international treaty and the International Paranormal Containment Agency, which is charged with monitoring and [...]

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Emotional Geology, by Linda Gillard

January 28, 2012

I read this tale by Linda Gillard thanks to some impressive bibliovangelizing by Angie at Angieville. I downloaded it onto my Kindle ($.99!) and started reading away. Rose had a passionate love affair with Gavin that ended badly five years ago. Very badly. And it caused a serious rift with her now-grown daughter, Megan, too. [...]

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