false10480628femaleBrooklyn, NY05/200712/20098878Alistair MacLeod58952Jon Clinch3023802Wendy Clinch35133130true5671583read0true212321currently-reading3true212320to-readThe Monstrumologist (Hardcover) by Richard Yancey]]>
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:10:26 -0800 Except that it was pretty terrible.
The thing is, if you slap a gaslight, a man in a top hat, something creepy happening, and an unreliable narrator into a book, there is no question I'm going to read it. This can be very good (P...more...]]>
Hotel Honolulu (Paperback) by Paul Theroux]]>
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:57:43 -0800 See, Paul Theroux had a great idea here: 1 story per room for the dissipated Hotel Honolulu. The problem, though, was that he maybe didn't actually have 88 separate stories to write about it. Instead, we get a half-dozen stories relat...more...]]>
Crime Scene Science Fair Projects (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Snoke Harris]]>
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:11 -0800The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel (Paperback) by Gaston Leroux]]>
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:35 -0800 I have a hard time taking seriously any bad guy named erik. he sounds like a euro raver kid who thinks he's dangerous but really just owns a fishnet shirt.
sorry, erik.]]>
The Crown of Columbus (Paperback) by Louise Erdrich]]>
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:10 -0800 more after the book club di...]]>
Honky (Paperback) by Dalton Conley]]>
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:19 -0800
black people love us, the book.
that said, I've changed my mind. it's heartfelt, certainly, but just not . . . anything new or surprising or unusually insightful.]]>
Serpent Box: A Novel (P.S.) by Vincent Louis Carrella]]>
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:11:24 -0700
Finn A Novel.
the tone is a solid effort, though it heads more towards "repetitive" than the hoped-for elegiac. the real problem I have is with the individual characters' voices. they spend a lot of time using words they have no way of knowing, and it p...more...]]>
The Magicians (Hardcover) by Lev Grossman]]>
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:04:08 -0700It Can't Happen Here (Paperback) by Sinclair Lewis]]>
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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:14:38 -0700 I've heard things pick up after 150 pages or so, but life's too short, man. The goings-on of Fort Beulah, VT were just too homespun and folksy (even the somewhat dialectical dialogue pushed me over the edge). Doremus Jessup struck me, ...more...]]>
Emma Brown (Paperback) by Clare Boylan]]>
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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:05:20 -0700
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