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Review: The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland

Originally, when I still toyed with the sane thought of having a running theme for my blog, I thought about doing book reviews. Then I discovered the AV Club and promptly felt wholly inadequate.(Also,...

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Review: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King

This is the other review I had written for the first incarnation of this blog, when I still naively thought I could read and review at least one book per week. Ha!This was written about a year and a...

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Review: I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

I started writing this review about seven weeks ago. It seems silly that it’s sat in my drafts pile for so long, so here it is.Title: I Capture The Castle Author: Dodie Smith Year Published: 1949...

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Review: Song in the Silence, Elizabeth Kerner

Title: Song in the Silence Author: Elizabeth Kerner Year Published: 1997 Genre: Fantasy, romance Serialization: First of trilogy, can be read alone Rating: 5/10 Premise: Lanen Kaelar has dreamt of...

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Review: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss

Title: The Name of the Wind Author: Patrick Rothfuss Year Published: 2007 Genre: Fantasy Serialization: First of trilogy, cuts off pretty arbitrarily Rating: 6/10 Premise: Kvothe Kingkiller has done...

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Review: The Darling Budds, Johnny Dale

It’s been over two months since a book review, and now’s as good a time as any to talk about The Darling Budds, by Johnny Dale. This is going to be a little unorthodox, because it’s an ongoing...

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Review: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins Year Published: 2008 Genre: Young Adult novel Serialization: First of trilogy Rating: 6/10 Premise: Following a failed uprising by the twelve districts,...

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Fifteen book reviews and an excuse

Procrastination, as they say, is a bitch.As anyone who has done any sort of creative work knows, inspiration tends to strike you when you’re in the worst position to be able to take advantage of it....

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My sister is smarter than you

My sister read The Last Battle recently, book 7 in C. S. Lewis’ beloved Narnia books, infamous for its unveiled religious proselytizing. While the parallels between Aslan and Jesus had always been...

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