Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I picked up 5 of Laura Lippman's books at Goodwill last year. It turned out they were books 2-6 of a series, so I put them on the to-be-read pile until I could pick up the first one at the library. I eventually decided not to be so neurotic about ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
It's taken me years to get around to finally reading Susan Orlean's entertaining book, The Orchid Thief.
Just reading the book, with it's fascinating cast of characters, made me paranoid about developing some sort of orchid obsession, and I really have no interest in them to start with. I ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I've posted about books I've read recently, but not necessarily on the days they appear. I'm just trying to work the bugs out of the site.
You really aren't supposed to be wandering around in here yet unless I asked you too, I'm still trying to get this part of ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
The Blood Books, Volume I is a double feature under one cover. The main character is Vicki Nelson, an ex-detective in Toronto trying to come to terms with the loss of her job due to a disability. Vicki is losing her vision and has almost no night vision at all. ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s monumental biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer was published in 2005 and won the National Book Critic's Award for Biography, as well as sweeping accolades from historians. It took me two years to get around to reading it, but I ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
On What Grounds is the first in Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mysteries.
Carolyn Cosi returns to Greenwich Village to manage a coffeehouse. Murder and mayhem ensue. The first book in the series, which is all I've read so far, is a standard who-done-it interspersed with likeable characters, clever plotting, and enough ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Living Dead in Dallas is the 2nd volume in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Series. I think I liked it even better than the first, Dead Until Dark. I can't quite decide if these are romance novels for people who don't like romance novels, or horror novels for people who don't ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Dead Until Dark is the 1st volume in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Series.
The series, and it's heroine - plucky mind-reading waitress Sookie Stackhouse, are every bit as endearing as fans claim. Vampires have come out of the coffin and Sookie falls for the first one to move into her ...
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