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Silver: My Own Tale As Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder (Hardcover) by Edward Chupack |
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recommended for: hearties
read in July, 2008 
emily said:
"this is a book much more about the voice of long john silver than anything else. the plot, well, the plot is fine, but mostly we hear the good captain menacing the cabin boy and telling his story. the voice is really first-rate -- it's blustery and...more
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| July 21 | ||
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The Cold Six Thousand (Paperback) by James Ellroy |
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recommended for: tough guys
read in January, 2008
emily said:
"everyone here is so tough and hip that I feel like I can hardly measure up. it's a violent, confusing (though probably because I hadn't read the other books in the series), drug-riddled car wreck of a book, and it's hard to look away
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Baltimore: Or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (Hardcover) by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden |
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emily said:
"gorgeous to look at, certainly -- the woodcuts totally knocked me every which way. the stories, however, were sort of generally creepy bloodbaths, and didn't quite live up to the illustrations.
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| July 20 | ||
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation (Hardcover) by Simon Armitage |
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| July 18 | ||
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Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years As a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult (Hardcover) by Miriam Williams |
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recommended for: former harlots
emily said:
"both stars are thanks to the title.
(but don't take this book out with you in the evening when you want to sit on the stoop and read if you happen to have chatty neighbors. because, awkward. trust me.) " |
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Ragtime: A Novel (Paperback) by Edgar Lawrence Doctorow |
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| July 17 | ||
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Hardcover) by Gordon Dahlquist |
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recommended for: the crew at LucasArts
read in July, 2008
emily said:
"This was basically The Secret of Monkey Island, only with more blood, plus occasionally breasts. I didn't find it difficult to follow like some people seem to hav...more
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| July 12 | ||
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Out of Sight (Mass Market Paperback) by Elmore Leonard |
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read in June, 2008
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| July 07 | ||
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I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves |
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| June 30 | ||
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The Last Empress (Hardcover) by Anchee Min |
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read in June, 2008
emily said:
"I actually really liked the first of these books ( Empress Orchid), but this one? less so. what I really enjoyed about Empress O. was the real human aspects of the characters -- this time, it w...more
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