Category: book list
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Three books that just lost my interest
I might come back to these at some point. I’ve read a good chunk of each one, but just drifted off to other things. Devil House by John Darnielle (Not my typical genre, and just moved a bit glacially for me… I kept realizing how many pages were left in the story and getting disheartened.…
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New Purchases I’d Love To Read… One Day
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls From the publisher, New Directions: In the Act begins: “As long as Helen was attending her adult education classes twice a week, everything worked out fine: Edgar could have a completely quiet house for his work, or his thinking, or whatever it was.” In Rachel Ingalls’s blissfully deranged novella,…
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Road trip reading
Books that filled a void: Books I disliked: Books that surprised me: New personal favorites
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Palate Cleanser: My Libby Shelf
I needed a palate cleanser after my binge of desperate, homoerotic Italians. Well, mostly, at least. My current kindle “stack” is mostly medieval or fantasy! I realized that Holly Black rereads did a lot for me last summer, so I’m trying out another author recommended as similar: Brigid Kemmerer. I’ve downloaded A Curse So Dark…
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Verso Sale!
The glory of a sale from Verso Books. I went in on a few eBooks, which came out to about $3.00 each. Pretty spectacular deal, and all set up for my used eReader. Is Mother Dead? By Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund ‘To mother is to murder, or close enough’, thinks Johanna, as she…
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Surprising DNFs of August
Now that the month is over, I’m sitting back and thinking about my reading habits over the summer. In terms of sheer book quantity, this was one of my stronger summers. Of course, much of that was spent on my Holly Black obsession (now complete; I’ll have to wait for her two new ones that…
Booklots! 