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Post 467: When She Woke
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan. ISBN: 9781616201180 (eBook).Spoiler Alert: This is going to be a compare and contrast post, so if you haven't read this book or The Scarlet Letter, I'm going to go...
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Post 468: The Last Werewolf
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. ISBN: 9780307595089. I've mentioned previously that I like monsters because they show the monstrous parts of our humanity: the lust, the violence, the lack of control...
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Post 469: Scarlet
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen. ISBN: 9780802723468 (eGalley - publishes February 14, 2012). I rather like the inclusion of women in stronger-than-they-normally-get roles in stories with Medieval settings....
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Post 470: Dan Walker (guest blogger)
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. ISBN: 9781594487569 (advanced reader copy). The whole illegal immigrant debate is still raging in this country, and if there's one thing that really gets under my...
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Post 471: Dan Walker (guest blogger)
The Book of Tomorrow, by Cecilia Ahern. ISBN: 9780061706301. Our narrator almost redeems herself right off the bat by telling us that she realizes now, cast out of her previous, glamorous life into...
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Hello. You missed my birthday. No worries, I spent Saturday with my mom, her boyfriend, and my brother eating friend chicken, asparagus, lima beans, biscuits, and chocolate cake. Sunday I had plans to...
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Post 473: A Clash of Kings
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin. ISBN: 9780553897852 (eBook). You guys, my blogging schedule is all sorts of messed up. I was working on a post for Holding Our Worlds Together when I realized...
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Post 474: The Portrait
The Portrait by Iain Pears. ISBN: 9781573222983. First off, I would like to thank Stephen Colbert for his inadvertent Colbert bump of my blog. His recent interviews (1 and 2) with Maurice Sendak have...
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Post 475: Cold Sassy Tree
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. ISBN: 9780385312585. Possibly one of the best books I've read recently. It's sentimental without being overwrought. What's more, the characterization of Southern...
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Post 476: Spellbound by Beauty
Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies by Donald Spoto. ISBN: 9780307351302. In his intro to this book, Spoto says that Hitchcock's genius cannot be denied, just as his faults...
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Post 477: Enchantments
Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison. ISBN: 9781400063475 (eGalley - publishes March 6, 2012). I owe you a general update, but for now, have a thing! Enchantments is told from the point of view of Masha,...
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Some of you are probably not wondering why/how I've been so busy lately. I mean, really, how hard is it to read 2-3 books a week and write two blog posts with enough time to get it to your editor...
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Post 479: If Walls Could Talk
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley. ISBN: 9780802779953 (eGalley - publishes March 7, 2012). In a rare bit of conincidence, I finished this book on the same day that...
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Post 480: Holding Our Worlds Together
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community by Brenda J. Child. ISBN: 9780670023240 (eGalley - published February 16, 2012). One of the best things about...
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Post 481: Sex on the Moon
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich. ISBN: 9780385533928. Thad Roberts, via Ben Mezrich, poses the question of whether something labeled...
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Post 482: Making Rounds with Oscar
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gifts of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa. ISBN: 9781441721235 (audiobook) This is a book about Alzheimer's disease and end of life care in disguise of a cute...
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Uhmmm... Valentine's Day sucked this year. I dealt with a 4-year old's melt down of epic proportions and then demolished copious amounts of chocolate in an attempt to make myself feel better. Yeah....
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Post 484: A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. ISBN: 9781581163207 (audiobook). I don't normally talk about book related movies, but when I do, I talk about The Rock's nips. Seriously, what was...
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Post 485: True Grit
True Grit by Charles Portis. ISBN: 9781590206508 (eBook). I believe True Grit might be the first western I've ever read. I'm not typically into westerns, movie or book version. The heroes are a little...
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Post 486: 24 Girls in 7 Days
24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley. ISBN: 9780142408346. This book is about a guy named Jack Grammar who decided he wasn't going to go to his prom alone. The only problem is that he's incredibly...
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Post 487: The Ask and the Answer
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness. ISBN: 9780763644901. I was not terribly impressed with the first book in this series. It was good, but it wasn't amazing. The Ask and the Answer, however, is...
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I now have a zoo pass thanks to my babysitting activities. It is awesome. I can go to the zoo and hang out whenever I want. And I get free train rides! There is nothing I don't like about this. In...
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Post 489: Dan Walker (guest blogger)
Soulles by Gail Carriger. ISBN: 9780316056632. I found this novel refreshing in its portrayal of vampires and werewolves. It was something akin to what I 'grew up on' regarding those two genres. The...
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Post 490: Pop When the World Falls Apart
Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow Doubt edited by Eric Weisbard. ISBN: 9780822351085 (Advance Reader Copy - publishes April 9, 2012). I haven't been big into music since I was about...
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Post 491: The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell. ISBN: 9780743548137 (audiobook). Sarah Vowell is a big old nerd. Nowhere is that more apparent than in The Partly Cloudy Patriot, and especially in the essay...
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