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The Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

December 18, 2009

Title: The Angel’s Game Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (trans. Lucia Graves) Pages: 544 Publisher: Doubleday Copyright: 2009 Format: Hardback Rating: ____________________________ I read Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s first book (at least the first of his books to be translated into English), The Shadow of the Wind, a couple of years ago and loved it. It’s one [...]

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Chunkster Challenge Wrap-Up

November 16, 2009

Chunkster Challenge February 1 – November 15, 2009 Challenge: Mor-book-ly Obese – Read 6 Books Over 450 Pages Long or 3 Books Over 750 Pages Long Status: 7/6 Master, by Toni Sorenson (486 pages) The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb (752 pages) Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (959 pages) The Angel’s [...]

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Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

May 21, 2009

Title: Gone with the Wind Author: Margaret Mitchell Pages: 959 Publisher: Scribner Copyright: 2007 (1937) Format: Paperback Rating: ____________________________ I just don’t even know where to begin. I read this book almost two months ago, and I’ve been hitting a mental block with the review. I’ve just decided to put my thoughts out there, jumbled [...]

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The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb

March 6, 2009

I’ve been so entranced by this book’s lingerings that I’ve added, maybe for this one time only, “halves” to my rating system. This book gets 4.5 stars.  Update: I’ve rethought the 1/2 star thing.  This book gets 4 stars. Epic. That’s what this book is. So the plot is extraordinarily hard to encapsulate. At it’s [...]

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Master, by Toni Sorenson

February 4, 2009

I read Master, by Toni Sorenson, for my book club in January.  We were lucky enough to have the author, Toni Sorenson, attend our meeting and share her experience of writing this marvelous book. Toni told us that she wrote the book, sent it off to her publisher, and heard nothing back until the publisher [...]

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The Memorist, by M.J. Rose

January 19, 2009

Welcome to today’s stop on The Memorist blog tour!  That’s M-E-M-O-R-I-S-T, not M-E-M-O-I-R-I-S-T.  The Memorist is the second in a thriller series by M.J. Rose. Meer Logan has always been haunted by the memories of someone else and the ellusive music that accompanies the memories.  She has devoted her life to the study of false [...]

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