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bookshelves: currently-reading
]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'The Invincible Miss Marple, including The Body in the Library, A Murder Is Announced, Murder with Mirrors']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79856958 The Invincible Miss Marple, including The Body in the Library, A Murder Is Announced, Murder with Mirrors (Hardcover) by Agatha Christie
bookshelves: awaiting-review
]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'Murder on the Links']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80016436 Murder on the Links (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) by Agatha Christie
bookshelves: decided-not-to-read, mystery-genre
Man, Hastings is annoying as a viewpoint character. I theorize that there's a reason that people have remembered Holmes and Watson, but not Poirot and Hastings. ]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80011497 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Mass Market Paperback) by Agatha Christie
bookshelves: decided-not-to-read, mystery-genre
Another Christie book made boring by the dullness of the viewpoint character. ]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'Dream Days']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79978661 Dream Days (Hardcover) by Kenneth Grahame
bookshelves: children-ya, decided-not-to-read
Sadly, this was simply not as engrossing as its predecessor. ]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'The Secret History']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79976659 The Secret History (Hardcover) by Donna Tartt
bookshelves: decided-not-to-read
Whereupon the reader, having finished the prologue some few days before and set the book aside, took it up again. And reading a few pages of the first chapter, she declared "Good Lord, this Richard guy is boring," and cast the book aside, resolving to return it to the library later. ]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79964620 Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (Hardcover) by Ying Chang Compestine
bookshelves: children-ya, decided-not-to-read, historical-fiction, memoir
]]> <![CDATA[Nikki took the never-ending book quiz]]> http://www.goodreads.com/trivia Nophoto-f-50x66 Nikki took the never-ending book quiz.
questions answered: 6657
correct: 5156 (77.5%)
skipped: 4727
best streak: 63
questions added: 12
]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'The Starry Rift']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79771756 to: The Starry Rift (Paperback) by Jonathan Strahan
bookshelves: anthologies, children-ya, science-fiction
This is a cool concept. I couldn't really get into about half of the stories, including some of the ones by authors whose work I'd enjoyed before. The ones I enjoyed:

"Ass-Hat Magic Spider" by Scott Westerfeld (even though it was slightly twee); "The Surfer" by Kelly Link; "Anda's Game" by Cory Doctorow (despite being a bit message-heavy, it was an interesting take on video game war); "The Star Surgeon's Apprentice" by Alistair Reynolds (cool to read that he has a bunch of Word files on his hard drive that are titles waiting for stories); and "Pinocchio" by Walter Jon Williams (possibly the most interesting take on celebrity as virus that that I've encountered; for more on this, see 2033: The Future of Misbehavior).

"Orange" by Neil Gaiman was merely okay. The others I can be assumed to have made an effort to read but not been intrigued by, or been put off by. ]]> <![CDATA[Nikki added 'Kautilya's Arthasastra']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79780319 Kautilya's Arthasastra (Hardcover) by Kautilya
bookshelves: poli-sci, to-read
An interesting cross between a mirror for princes and conduct book, with maybe a little early Buddhist religious text thrown in.

This particular translation is not of the highest calibre, and neither is the printing ... but it seems to be a reasonable place to start. ]]>