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2013 book 226 27 Aug 2013 | 03:34 am
Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland I love Lahiri's writing--and have read The Namesake several times--so was very much looking forward to a new novel from her. This was a slow starter, though; I wasn't real...
2013 book 225 25 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets I want to reread books 3 and 4 for some reason, but I have this weird compulsion that won't let me read them out of order, or skip one, so I'm r...
2013 book 224 23 Aug 2013 | 05:38 am
Adam Langer's The Salinger Contract I really loved Langer's Crossing California, but wasn't too interested in his last couple of novels. But this one! It's a literary mystery/thriller--one of my favo...
2013 book 223 22 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
Kate Manning's My Notorious Life Apparently books based on REAL HISTORICAL FACTS are the hot new thing; this is like the third or fourth one I've read recently. It manages to read more like an actual...
2013 book 222 18 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
Diana Wynne Jones' The Pinhoe Egg The final Chrestomanci book revisits the characters of the first one with some new additions--a bunch of witches in a nearby town determined to keep their secrets fr...
2013 book 221 18 Aug 2013 | 05:06 am
Diana Wynne Jones' Conrad's Fate I liked this one slightly better than last time I read it, but it's not anything particularly exciting. I do like the focus on the staff of a Count's house, especiall...
2013 book 220 17 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
Chelsea Cain's Let Me Go I think this is the 6th book in the Gretchen Lowell series, and it's high on the entertainment factor, if low on an overarching plot. I mean, a lot HAPPENS, but it feels more...
2013 book 219 15 Aug 2013 | 04:06 am
Diana Wynne Jones' Witch Week Note to self: this is your least favorite of the Chrestomanci books and you find it a little bit tiresome--don't bother to reread it again anytime soon.
2013 book 218 14 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
Diana Wynne Jones' The Magicians of Caprona This Chrestomanci book is as enjoyable as the first two; it involves two Italian feuding families full of musicians and magicians and the children who real...
2013 book 217 14 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be A choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet is clearly the best idea ever, which is why this raised over half a million dollars on Kickstarter. And yes, I'm counting...
