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The Woods, by Harlan Coben (12 July)
Let me just start by saying that I am very glad I only paid 14.7 cents for this book. Yeah. I must have read a glowing review somewhere, but honestly I would not have finished this book if it weren’t...
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The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean (14 October — 18 October)
Sigh. I just don’t even know what to say about this book. Remember People of the Book? That was a good book, but I would have liked it better if I didn’t have to read about Hanna Heath in the present....
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Cat Breaking Free, by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Hey, so, remember how I’m all prejudiced about books? And how I’m trying to read books I’ve avoided reading? Well, I can now say I have read a cat detective novel, and that I am slightly less...
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Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher
Hmm. I wanted to like this book, I did. It came with good recommendations, and it’s even on one or more of those award lists I’m reading from for my YA lit class. But except for maybe twenty or thirty...
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The Dark and Hollow Places, by Carrie Ryan
I just… I… hmmph. Pout. Frustrated dance. Etcetera. I shouldn’t have picked up this book. I really shouldn’t have. I quite liked The Forest of Hands and Teeth, but I did not like The Dead-Tossed Waves,...
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Black Plumes, by Margery Allingham
Well, I mean, let’s be real. After that whirlwind romance with The Night Circus (which I just very reluctantly took back to the library), no other suitor was going to compare at all. So it might be...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
What the whatting what. This is like the tiniest of tiny books — 123 very small pages, wide margins, lots of pages dedicated to pictures of seagulls, read it in an hour — and yet I still wouldn’t have...
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Those Across the River, by Christopher Buehlman
Man. I really dislike it when I think a book is going to be awesome, or, as is the case here, pretty decent, and then I read it and it’s just… not. This book was pretty bad from the start, but it was...
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A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
A disclaimer — I read this for a book club and put it off so long that I literally finished the book in the parking lot of the restaurant where we had our book club meeting. So I may not have been...
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A Mutiny in Time, by James Dashner
Okay, so, twenty pages in I knew this wasn’t the book for me. However, I promised my younger brother that I would read it and he is not the type to forget a promise made to him, and also the book is...
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Stolen Bases, by Jennifer Ring
I often say that being in a book club is great for reading books you would otherwise not have picked up or even heard of at all. But sometimes, and this is one of those times, I must also say that...
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida
Let me get this out of the way right now: the best part of this book is that it took me just two hours to read. The worst part? Everything else. Is that fair? Maybe not; my fellow book clubbers seemed...
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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, by Alan Bradley
I just don’t even know what is going on with Flavia these days. I mean, I’ve always had my problems with these books, which have decently interesting mysteries and a delightful protagonist but which...
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The Uncoupling, by Meg Wolitzer
You guys, I was so excited when a fellow book clubber announced this book as her pick. I had heard nothing but great things about The Uncoupling and about Wolitzer’s work in general, but had just never...
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When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams
I picked this book for my book club to read because the internets had told me great things about it, and the conceit as explained to me was fascinating: Williams’s mother died and left Williams all her...
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