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I say definitely yes to this. If I had read it when I was small, it would have become one of my favorite books and I would have read it over and over again. As it is, I liked it but I probably wouldn’t buy it.
Basically it’s a retelling of “East of the [...]
Archive for December, 2007
East, by Edith Pattou
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged East, Edith Pattou, fairy tales on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from elsewhere, tagged circus, predictable endings, Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants on December 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Heard about this because it was one of those books that is always on front shelves at Bongs & Noodles.
I know it is contradictory to say that I enjoyed this and then file it as an unfavorite, but it’s true. I enjoyed it in that I carried on reading it all the way to [...]
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Catholicism, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, melancholy, poodlerat, Purple Hibiscus, sad on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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I totally love this woman’s name. Her book was sad. All about a controlling abusive Catholic Nigerian (what a string of adjectives) father and his wife and two children; the young girl narrates the story. That’s it, really. I wish I had more to say about this book. [...]
Forever Amber, by Kathleen Winsor
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about in a book, tagged family, Forever Amber, historical fiction, Kathleen Winsor, romance, The Index, trashy on December 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Heard about in: Die for Love, by Elizabeth Peters
Apparently this book got edited down to one-fifth of its original length, for which I can only say praise God (though it must be thrilling for Forever Amber scholars to get their hands on the original manuscript, if it still exists). I cannot imagine how she could [...]
Melusine, by Sarah Monette
Posted in 1 Star, Heard about from the internets, tagged glbt, incest and rape, melusine, rubbish protagonists, sarah monette on December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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I felt mad cheated with this book. I went to this girl’s website, and we just seemed to like so many of the same things! and she spoke so highly of Melusine and I trusted her! But actually I couldn’t even remotely get into it. I was like twenty [...]
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from elsewhere, tagged Janice Galloway, mental illness, The Trick is to Keep Breathing on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by Janice Galloway
I guess I wasn’t the target audience, but damn, this book just never went anywhere, for God’s sake. It’s about a Scottish woman, if I recall correctly, who sinks into a deep depression after her lover drowns. And that’s basically all I have to say about it. So-so. Nothing [...]
