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Kate and Emma, Monica Dickens

Posted in 2 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged , , on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Recommended by: Geranium Cat, sort of.  I was actually after The Angel in the Corner, but the library hadn’t got it.  They had a large collection of Charles Dickens books with spines that didn’t say the titles, which I spent lots of time sorting through, but the only Monica Dickens book they had was Kate [...]

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The Interloper, Antoine Wilson

Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged , , , , on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Recommended by: an adventure in reading
When I say that this book reminded me of how much I love to read, I don’t want you to take that as too much of a compliment to the book. With that caveat – The Interloper really reminded me of how much I love to read. I went [...]

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Shadows Return, Lynn Flewelling

Posted in 3 Stars, Favored authors, Heard about in a book, tagged , , , on June 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »

My amazing sister went and bought me a copy of this before it was supposed to come out (which was today, I guess).  Foolish Books-a-Million (not my bookstore chain of choice) put it on the shelves before its release date, and brilliant Anna bought us each a copy.  Joy!
Darling Alec, darling Seregil, I support their [...]

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Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth

Posted in Heard about from the internets, Unfinished, tagged , , , , , on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This book and I got off to a rocky start. Last time I was at the library, I picked up a bunch of books that I thought might be good, by authors who are all those weird fantasy realists and postmodern and metafictiony. I got the rest of Salman Rushdie’s books that I [...]

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The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Posted in 4 Stars, Favored authors, Heard about in a book, tagged , , , on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I heard about this from um. You know. Everywhere.
Before I went to England, I went to the bookstore to pick out three books for myself. They were leaving-home presents to myself, and I was going to read one of them before leaving America, and one of them on the plane to England, [...]

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Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card

Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged , , , , on June 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The public librarian recommended Ender’s Game to my eighth-grade class, lo these many years ago, and from there I read just about all of Orson Scott Card’s books except the ones I thought looked lame.  And including several I thought wouldn’t be lame but were, after all.
Just reread these two.  I also recently reread Xenocide [...]

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