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author: Willie Weir
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/19/08
shelves: travel, vicarious-adventure
review:

]]> 30156032 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:23:05 -0700
author: Janelle Brown
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/19/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 30144231 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:04:12 -0700
As usual, Listening Library has done a fine job of producing the audiobook.

My only frustration would be that this is a book that just cries out for maps and illustration....scarcely Freedman's fault that I chose to listen rather than read it, but I will probably track down the print version to see what graphics I missed.]]>
author: Russell Freedman
name: Debra
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/14/08
shelves: audiobooks, books-for-children, history
review:
Russell Freedman is a master at weaving an interesting, sophisticated narrative for children without talking down to them. Honestly, this is a wonderful overview of relatively current thinking on the "discovery" of the New World.

As usual, Listening Library has done a fine job of producing the audiobook.

My only frustration would be that this is a book that just cries out for maps and illustration....scarcely Freedman's fault that I chose to listen rather than read it, but I will probably track down the print version to see what graphics I missed.
]]> 29644709 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:58:45 -0700
author: Penny Vincenzi
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/14/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 29947707 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:58:18 -0700
author: Deborah Crombie
name: Debra
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/14/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 29998039 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:57:34 -0700
author: Alden R. Carter
name: Debra
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1999
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/14/08
shelves: teen
review:

]]> 29887741 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:52:46 -0700
author: Carolyn Haines
name: Debra
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/11/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 29574409 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:48:32 -0700
author: Rhys Bowen
name: Debra
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/11/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 29574157 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:37:31 -0700
author: Mary Alice Monroe
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/08/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 29574282 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:00:08 -0700
author: Craig Johnson
name: Debra
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/07/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 29573604 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:52:02 -0700
author: Beth Harbison
name: Debra
average rating: 3.17
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/07/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 29215092 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:50:40 -0700
author: Eileen Goudge
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/07/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 29067050 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:32:22 -0700
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Debra
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/04/08
shelves: romance, teen
review:
Another gripping book in the Twilight series. Bella grows up, the vampire/werewolf tension is explored.... It has 700 some pages, but I went through it like a kid's bag of Halloween candy.
]]> 28865307 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:23:47 -0700
author: Carol Drinkwater
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 08/08
date added: 08/02/08
shelves: audiobooks, history, travel
review:
Really more a travel book about the Mediterranean countries than the announced search for the origins of olive husbandry, I still found her viewpoints and experiences interesting.
]]> 28742002 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:20:06 -0700
author: Douglas Preston
name: Debra
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/31/08
shelves: audiobooks, nonfiction, true-crime
review:

]]> 28744751 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:19:33 -0700
author: Thomas Wharton
name: Debra
average rating: 3.31
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/31/08
shelves:
review:
I can see why this book's format isn't for everyone, but Michael Wharton is such a lyrical writer. And I don't care for cold any more than I enjoy heat. Nonetheless, he made me want to visit glaciers.
]]> 28610640 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:41:03 -0700
author: Linda Greenlaw
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/30/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 28740796 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:40:15 -0700
author: Ned Lord
name: Debra
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 07/30/08
shelves:
review:

]]> 28374504 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:43:57 -0700
They are fun, with a nice combination of character, humor, and suspense. Violence as appropriate but not so much as to bother a mystery fan.

Jeff Woodman does such a good job of taking Chris Grabenstein's excellent characterization and turning them into the perfect voices. I hear, even as I write, the voice of Danny and John.

Definitely a series to listen to!!]]>
author: Chris Grabenstein
name: Debra
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/29/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:
It is hard for me to write how much I enjoy the John Ceepak mysteries, and especially, as read by Jeff Woodman without gibbering.

They are fun, with a nice combination of character, humor, and suspense. Violence as appropriate but not so much as to bother a mystery fan.

Jeff Woodman does such a good job of taking Chris Grabenstein's excellent characterization and turning them into the perfect voices. I hear, even as I write, the voice of Danny and John.

Definitely a series to listen to!!
]]> 28538946 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:39:52 -0700
author: Elin Hilderbrand
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/29/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 28374706 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:59:22 -0700
author: Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
name: Debra
average rating: 3.21
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/27/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 20935297 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:03:43 -0700
It was nice to read a stepmother who is not only sympathetic, but a hero as well.]]>
author: Chris Grabenstein
name: Debra
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: teen
review:
What a goldang entertaining mixture of horror and ghost story! Although I figured out much of the plot, the characters kept me turning pages.

It was nice to read a stepmother who is not only sympathetic, but a hero as well.
]]> 28319458 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:58:55 -0700
author: J.A. Konrath
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/26/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 28179488 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:02:48 -0700
author: Blue Balliett
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 07/25/08
shelves: audiobooks, books-for-children, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27751288 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:34:47 -0700
author: Sergio Esposito
name: Debra
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/24/08
shelves: biography-memoir, food, nonfiction, travel
review:
Grab a nice glass of sangiovese, or better yet, a Barolo, and settle in for a calorie-laden treat. Sergio Esposito, the proprietor of Italian Wine Merchants in New York, writes of his Neopolitan roots, Italian food (most definitely not Olive Garden food!) and Italian wine. Definitely more for the wine/food fans than the memoir fans, this book caused me to change the week's menu and look for new wines.
]]> 27966575 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:35:50 -0700
author: James Lee Burke
name: Debra
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/24/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27801538 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:47:33 -0700
author: Erica Spindler
name: Debra
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/22/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27665864 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:35:13 -0700
author: Joseph Wambaugh
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/20/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27747338 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:50:02 -0700
author: F.M. Meredith
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/19/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27539828 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:44:54 -0700
author: Jeanne Birdsall
name: Debra
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/19/08
shelves: books-for-children
review:

]]> 27539656 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:41:15 -0700
author: Barbara Delinsky
name: Debra
average rating: 2.33
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/18/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 27365287 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:13:56 -0700
author: Jake Page
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: animals, nonfiction, science
review:

]]> 27539560 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:13:40 -0700
author: Rose Connors
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27315366 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:12:34 -0700
author: Harley Jane Kozak
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/17/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27315495 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:29:17 -0700
author: Rose Connors
name: Debra
average rating: 3.09
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/15/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 27171049 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:51:29 -0700
author: P.J. Tracy
name: Debra
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/15/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 26952000 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:02:46 -0700
author: Roberta Isleib
name: Debra
average rating: 3.21
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/14/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 26967143 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:25:29 -0700
author: Jane Green
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/13/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:

]]> 26951936 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:14:40 -0700
author: Robert Crais
name: Debra
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/11/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 26796416 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:30:22 -0700
author: Anne de Courcy
name: Debra
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/11/08
shelves: history
review:

]]> 26873053 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:29:41 -0700
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Debra
average rating: 3.25
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/11/08
shelves: audiobooks, teen
review:

]]> 26848490 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:29:13 -0700
author: Andrew Clements
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/11/08
shelves: audiobooks, books-for-children
review:

]]> 26647837 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:33:17 -0700
author: Jimmy Buffett
name: Debra
average rating: 2.33
book published: 2008
rating: 2
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/09/08
shelves: animals, audiobooks
review:

]]> 26700259 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:32:31 -0700
I believe that there is an intervening book that I need to track down now...]]>
author: Winifred Foley
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1981
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/09/08
shelves: biography-memoir, history
review:
I actually enjoyed this sequel more than A Child in the Forest. Here Winifred moves from London back to the Forest with her family. More humor in the writing style - not laugh at loud, but dry. As well as some sad moments.

I believe that there is an intervening book that I need to track down now...
]]> 26449019 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:45:50 -0700
What I love about Vicki Lane's series is the complex characters, the sense of place, the completeness of the story in which the mystery is an organic part.

Now, can I wait until 2009 for the next installment?]]>
author: Vicki Lane
name: Debra
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/08/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:
What a fascinating book! Intertwining stories merge to create a thrilling mystery that kept me up too late last night.

What I love about Vicki Lane's series is the complex characters, the sense of place, the completeness of the story in which the mystery is an organic part.

Now, can I wait until 2009 for the next installment?
]]> 26528722 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:42:44 -0700
author: Charles Bock
name: Debra
average rating: 1.50
book published: 2008
rating: 2
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/08/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:
This book reached high but fell flat.
]]> 26449164 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:54 -0700
author: Lisa Gardner
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/07/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 26269908 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:41:23 -0700
author: Lisa Unger
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/06/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 26318978 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:41:05 -0700
author: Ann Drysdale
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1984
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/06/08
shelves: biography-memoir
review:

]]> 26269879 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:46:09 -0700
author: Evelyn Edith Atkins
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1987
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/04/08
shelves: biography-memoir, travel
review:

]]> 26253633 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:11:36 -0700
author: Winifred Foley
name: Debra
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/03/08
shelves: biography-memoir
review:

]]> 26111696 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:14 -0700
author: Gail Carson Levine
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/03/08
shelves: audiobooks, books-for-children, folklore, science-fiction-fantasy
review:
OK, contrarian here. Finally getting around to listening to Ella Enchanted but it left me underwhelmed despite the critical and popular acclaim. It was OK - heaven knows I've read far worse books. But it just seemed too long, and with too much one-note character development to be as good as billed. Since I've never written a Newbery honor book, what do I know....
]]> 26172263 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:35:23 -0700
A fast read, one I didn't want to put down.]]>
author: Laura Crum
name: Debra
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/03/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:
Another Gail McCarthy, equine vet mystery, and as always a pleasure. Gail is now more focused on being Mac's mom than a vet but events at her neighbor's training barn pull her into murder.

A fast read, one I didn't want to put down.
]]> 26151052 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:13:21 -0700
author: Anne Stuart
name: Debra
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2005
rating: 2
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/02/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense, romance
review:
Brain candy romantic suspense. Fun without being particularly good. I'll read the rest of the series, though.
]]> 26018738 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:47:21 -0700
author: Jeanne Marie Laskas
name: Debra
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/02/08
shelves: biography-memoir, nonfiction
review:

]]> 26018865 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:52 -0700
author: Rose Connors
name: Debra
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/01/08
shelves: audiobooks, mystery--thriller--suspense
review:
Bernadette Dunne does a wonderful job of narrating Rose Connor's legal thriller series set on Cape Cod. These quite satisfying books never got the attention they deserved.
]]> 25827555 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:00:13 -0700
This one had a mean spiritedness directed toward non-Anglicans that bothered me and distracted from my expected enjoyment.]]>
author: Rebecca Shaw
name: Debra
average rating: 2.00
book published: 2007
rating: 2
read at: 07/08
date added: 07/01/08
shelves: audiobooks
review:
Normally Rebecca Shaw's books are feel good reading for me. I enjoy her gentle portraits of life in small town England.

This one had a mean spiritedness directed toward non-Anglicans that bothered me and distracted from my expected enjoyment.
]]> 25886484 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:00:39 -0700
author: Maggie Estep
name: Debra
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 06/29/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 25867476 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:56:29 -0700
author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
name: Debra
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/29/08
shelves: books-for-children, historical-fiction
review:

]]> 25827743 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:55:44 -0700
author: Elizabeth George
name: Debra
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 06/08
date added: 06/29/08
shelves: mystery--thriller--suspense
review:

]]> 25406781 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:27:48 -0700
author: Vicki Lane
name: Debra
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2007