Lishesque's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rss/125432 en-US Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:27 -0700 60 Lishesque's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 30139418 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:11:27 -0700 <![CDATA[The Child Garden]]> The Child Garden
author: Geoff Ryman
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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I can't remember where I got this book from, but I've owned it for as long as I can remember. I read it when I was 12 and remember being vaguely confused. I also remember the lesbian subtext. Recently picked it up again and saw that the subtext was more maintext than subtext. I'll probably try to read it again one of these days.
]]> 30139079 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:02:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, Circa 800-1500 (The Nordic, Vol 17)]]> Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, Circa 800-1500 (The Nordic, Vol 17)
author: Birgit Sawyer
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1993
rating: 3
read at: 10/07
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]]> 30138840 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:01:51 -0700 <![CDATA[Women in the Viking Age]]> Women in the Viking Age
author: Judith Jesch
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 30138692 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:58:31 -0700 <![CDATA[Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition]]> Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition
author: Helen Damico
name: Lishesque
average rating: 2.50
book published: 1984
rating: 3
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]]> 30136769 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:49:56 -0700 <![CDATA[Diary of a Madman (Paper)]]> Diary of a Madman (Paper)
author: Lu Xun
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1990
rating: 3
read at: 04/07
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]]> 30137533 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:49:05 -0700 <![CDATA[Sparrows, Bedbugs, and Body Shadows: A Memoir (Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii).)]]> Sparrows, Bedbugs, and Body Shadows: A Memoir (Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii).)
author: Sheldon Lou
name: Lishesque
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 04/07
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]]> 30137187 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:47:40 -0700 <![CDATA[I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling]]> I Myself Am a Woman: Selected Writings of Ding Ling
author: Ling Ding
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 05/07
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]]> 30137232 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:46:57 -0700 <![CDATA[The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)]]> The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
author: Tani E. Barlow
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 05/07
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]]> 21076926 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:56:50 -0700 <![CDATA[The Passion]]> Written on the Body. I loved it, even though it made me totally emo in the end. The language in it was simply gorgeous. 


Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. - Jeanette Winterson
]]> The Passion
author: Jeanette Winterson
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
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My favorite Jeanette Winterson book after Written on the Body. I loved it, even though it made me totally emo in the end. The language in it was simply gorgeous. 


Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. - Jeanette Winterson

]]> 30130625 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:46:21 -0700 <![CDATA[First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)]]> First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
author: Loung Ung
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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]]> 28591918 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:55:30 -0700 <![CDATA[The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)]]> The Day of the Triffids (20th Century Rediscoveries)
author: John Wyndham
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1951
rating: 3
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]]> 28591911 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:55:15 -0700 <![CDATA[So Much to Tell You]]> So Much to Tell You
author: John Marsden
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> 28591292 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:24:21 -0700 <![CDATA[Icehole]]> Icehole
author: Kiera Dellacroix
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 28591291 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:24:17 -0700 <![CDATA[Engravings of Wraith]]> Engravings of Wraith
author: Kiera Dellacroix
name: Lishesque
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> 28305209 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:41:30 -0700 <![CDATA[Alix & Valerie]]> Alix & Valerie
author: Ingrid Diaz
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> 25515460 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:28:10 -0700 <![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8, Vol. 1)]]> Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home (Season 8, Vol. 1)
author: Joss Whedon
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/25/08
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]]> 25515575 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:26:47 -0700 <![CDATA[Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future For You (Season 8, Vol. 2)]]> Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future For You (Season 8, Vol. 2)
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/25/08
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]]> 10613796 Sun, 04 May 2008 03:20:34 -0700 <![CDATA[Always]]>
Aud is a lot more fallible in this one, which I found annoying. It reminds me of season 5 of Xena where Xena swings wildly between being able to kill gods and then getting beaten up by the random baddie of the week. It felt inconsistent.

I also didn't like her new love interest, who had no personality at all (from what I could see).

Also, the chapters about Aud's self defense class were painfully slow.

That said, however, I did finish the book in one day - I couldn't put it down - so there must have been something about it that I liked...
]]> Always
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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This was my least favourite of all the Nicola Griffith novels I've read so far.

Aud is a lot more fallible in this one, which I found annoying. It reminds me of season 5 of Xena where Xena swings wildly between being able to kill gods and then getting beaten up by the random baddie of the week. It felt inconsistent.

I also didn't like her new love interest, who had no personality at all (from what I could see).

Also, the chapters about Aud's self defense class were painfully slow.

That said, however, I did finish the book in one day - I couldn't put it down - so there must have been something about it that I liked...

]]> 21505217 Sat, 03 May 2008 04:37:25 -0700 <![CDATA[Darkfall (Legendsong Trilogy Book 1)]]> Darkfall (Legendsong Trilogy Book 1)
author: Isobelle Carmody
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.52
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> 21232704 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:38:05 -0700 <![CDATA[Looking for Alibrandi]]> Looking for Alibrandi
author: Melina Marchetta
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 21078195 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:17:01 -0700 <![CDATA[Sun-Tzu: The Art of War (Classics of Ancient China)]]> Sun-Tzu: The Art of War (Classics of Ancient China)
author: Roger T. Ames
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1993
rating: 3
read at: 01/06
date added: 04/27/08
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]]> 21077850 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:57:23 -0700 <![CDATA[Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)]]> Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
author: Unknown
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 10/07
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Learn Old Norse before reading this.
]]> 1839738 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:52:31 -0700 <![CDATA[Ammonite]]> Ammonite
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1839762 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:50:53 -0700 <![CDATA[Fingersmith]]> Fingersmith
author: Sarah Waters
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 01/07
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 7822320 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:45:29 -0700 <![CDATA[Pages for You]]> Pages for You
author: Sylvia Brownrigg
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 10/07
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1855214 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:44:12 -0700 <![CDATA[The Little Prince]]> The Little Prince
author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1943
rating: 5
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1839765 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:43:45 -0700 <![CDATA[Tropical Storm]]> Tropical Storm
author: Melissa Good
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 01/01
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1855208 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:42:22 -0700 <![CDATA[Housekeeping: A Novel]]> Housekeeping: A Novel
author: Marilynne Robinson
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1980
rating: 5
read at: 01/03
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1855366 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:41:49 -0700 <![CDATA[Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol. 2)]]> Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol. 2)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1855348 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:41:24 -0700 <![CDATA[Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 3)]]> Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance Chronicles, Book 3)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1985
rating: 5
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1855328 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:40:36 -0700 <![CDATA[Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol. 1)]]> Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, Vol. 1)
author: Margaret Weis
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1984
rating: 5
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 20706027 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:39:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Night]]> Night
author: Elie Wiesel
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1958
rating: 3
read at: 01/04
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1854918 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:36:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Romeo and Juliet رومئو و ژوليت]]> Romeo and Juliet رومئو و ژوليت
author: William Shakespeare
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.45
book published: 1597
rating: 3
read at: 01/00
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 21076536 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:25:55 -0700 <![CDATA[Written on the Body]]>
There were heaps of passages which jumped out at me, which I even underlined. This was one of my favorites:

"To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"

]]> Written on the Body
author: Jeanette Winterson
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 11/07
date added: 04/26/08
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The first half of this book was amusing. The second half was simply amazing.

There were heaps of passages which jumped out at me, which I even underlined. This was one of my favorites:

"To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"


]]> 10613749 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:13:10 -0700 <![CDATA[Affinity]]>
I looked only at her, heard her voice only; and when I spoke at last, it was to ask her this: 'How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?'

She answered, 'She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.' (p. 210-211) ]]> Affinity
author: Sarah Waters
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 01/08
date added: 04/26/08
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Favorite quote:

I looked only at her, heard her voice only; and when I spoke at last, it was to ask her this: 'How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?'

She answered, 'She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.' (p. 210-211)
]]> 8220832 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:11:58 -0700 <![CDATA[Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit]]>
For me, this bit redeems all the boring parts:

"But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup. As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed." (can't remember what page)]]> Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
author: Jeanette Winterson
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 10/07
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You need a lot of patience for Jeanette Winterson's weird little Beowulfesque tangents, but if you can get past that, there a little gems of brilliant clarity scattered throughout.

For me, this bit redeems all the boring parts:

"But where was God now, with heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord overthrown? I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. I have an idea that one day it might be possible, I thought once it had become possible, and that glimpse has set me wandering, trying to find the balance between earth and sky. If the servants hadn't rushed in and parted us, I might have been disappointed, might have snatched off the white samite to find a bowl of soup. As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. I would cross seas and suffer sunstroke and give away all I have, but not for a man, because they want to be the destroyer and never the destroyed." (can't remember what page)
]]> 1878819 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:50:47 -0700 <![CDATA[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
author: Roald Dahl
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1964
rating: 4
read at: 01/96
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 1839737 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:49:28 -0700 <![CDATA[Slow River]]> Slow River
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 01/07
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 20705870 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:48:03 -0700 <![CDATA[Stay]]> Stay
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/26/08
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]]> 10613786 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:46:33 -0700 <![CDATA[The Blue Place]]> The Blue Place
author: Nicola Griffith
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 04/08
date added: 04/26/08
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I fell in love with Aud.
]]> 20860544 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:41:57 -0700 <![CDATA[Silk]]>
"The only part of the treasure left was a stone," and pause then, maybe a sort of challenge to Walter, but he'd been watching the windows again, his own blood in his hands.

"A beautiful blue-gray stone full of God's most beautiful and terrible secrets. And they knew that they'd been wrong, that there was no way for them to hide themselves or the stone much longer. Instead, they found a way to take it apart and put it back together again inside themselves. But they knew that still wasn't enough, so they found men and women and fucked them, seduced them or just raped them, and that passed the things in the stone into innocent human beings that they didn't believe He would ever hurt to take back his secrets."

"But they were wrong, weren't they?" Byron asked, asked like he already knew the answer, had known it all his life.

"Yeah," she said. "They were wrong. The people that carried the things from the stone inside them disappeared from the World one by one, but some of them had children first, and their children had children, and little bits and pieces got away after all."

They were hanging on her words, then, even Walter, salvation in these lies, waiting just beyond the last thing she'd said. And Spyder had strained to see the fetal lies in front of her, curled slippery as moss-hairy stones almost invisible under rushing water, shitty stepping-stones, but the only path she had to give them.

"These bits and pieces were passed along generation to generation, getting smaller and smaller all the time, spread out farther and farther. Getting harder and harder for the angels to track down, the angels and the things that hunted for them, the things that God made especially to be able to smell out those special people that looked human, but really were part stone and part secrets and part something that had once been angel." (pp. 176-177)]]> Silk
author: Caitlín R. Kiernan
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 04/08
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My favorite section:

"The only part of the treasure left was a stone," and pause then, maybe a sort of challenge to Walter, but he'd been watching the windows again, his own blood in his hands.

"A beautiful blue-gray stone full of God's most beautiful and terrible secrets. And they knew that they'd been wrong, that there was no way for them to hide themselves or the stone much longer. Instead, they found a way to take it apart and put it back together again inside themselves. But they knew that still wasn't enough, so they found men and women and fucked them, seduced them or just raped them, and that passed the things in the stone into innocent human beings that they didn't believe He would ever hurt to take back his secrets."

"But they were wrong, weren't they?" Byron asked, asked like he already knew the answer, had known it all his life.

"Yeah," she said. "They were wrong. The people that carried the things from the stone inside them disappeared from the World one by one, but some of them had children first, and their children had children, and little bits and pieces got away after all."

They were hanging on her words, then, even Walter, salvation in these lies, waiting just beyond the last thing she'd said. And Spyder had strained to see the fetal lies in front of her, curled slippery as moss-hairy stones almost invisible under rushing water, shitty stepping-stones, but the only path she had to give them.

"These bits and pieces were passed along generation to generation, getting smaller and smaller all the time, spread out farther and farther. Getting harder and harder for the angels to track down, the angels and the things that hunted for them, the things that God made especially to be able to smell out those special people that looked human, but really were part stone and part secrets and part something that had once been angel." (pp. 176-177)
]]> 20866571 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:11:02 -0700 <![CDATA[How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans]]> How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans
author: Nikki Stafford
name: Lishesque
average rating: 2.67
book published: 2002
rating: 3
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]]> 20863126 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:17:26 -0700 <![CDATA[The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)]]> The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
author: Euripides
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1954
rating: 4
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]]> 20863006 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:14:34 -0700 <![CDATA[Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Classical Texts)]]> Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Classical Texts)
author: C.A. Trypanis
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1986
rating: 3
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]]> 1855587 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:21:24 -0700 <![CDATA[Downfall (Dragonlance: The Dhamon Saga, Book 1)]]> Downfall (Dragonlance: The Dhamon Saga, Book 1)
author: Jean Rabe
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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]]> 20861021 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:52:15 -0700 <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)]]> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 20860390 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:17:44 -0700 <![CDATA[Battleaxe]]> Battleaxe
author: Sara Douglass
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> 20860374 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:48 -0700 <![CDATA[The Sapphire Rose (The Elenium, Book 3)]]> The Sapphire Rose (The Elenium, Book 3)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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]]> 20860373 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:45 -0700 <![CDATA[The Ruby Knight (The Elenium, Book 2)]]> The Ruby Knight (The Elenium, Book 2)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 20860372 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:44 -0700 <![CDATA[The Diamond Throne (The Elenium, Book 1)]]> The Diamond Throne (The Elenium, Book 1)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1996
rating: 3
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]]> 20860368 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:33 -0700 <![CDATA[Demon Lord of Karanda (The Malloreon, Book 3)]]> Demon Lord of Karanda (The Malloreon, Book 3)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 20860365 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:21 -0700 <![CDATA[Sorceress of Darshiva (Book Four of The Malloreon)]]> Sorceress of Darshiva (Book Four of The Malloreon)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> 20860364 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:19 -0700 <![CDATA[King of the Murgos (Malloreon)]]> King of the Murgos (Malloreon)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1987
rating: 3
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]]> 20860361 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:14 -0700 <![CDATA[Belgarath the Sorcerer]]> Belgarath the Sorcerer
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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]]> 20860358 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:12 -0700 <![CDATA[Guardians of the West (The Malloreon, Book 1)]]> Guardians of the West (The Malloreon, Book 1)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1987
rating: 3
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]]> 20860356 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:09 -0700 <![CDATA[The Seeress of Kell (The Malloreon, Book 5) ]]> The Seeress of Kell (The Malloreon, Book 5)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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]]> 20860353 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:16:02 -0700 <![CDATA[Polgara the Sorceress]]> Polgara the Sorceress
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 20860349 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:15:56 -0700 <![CDATA[Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad, Book 5)]]> Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad, Book 5)
author: David Eddings
name: Lishesque
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1984
rating: 3
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]]> 20860346 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:15:52 -0700 <![CDATA[Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, Book 1)]]>