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Oryx and Crake
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Jody is currently reading:
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
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The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Slap
by Christos Tsiolkas
read in January, 2012
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I appreciate Tsiolkas' ability to take the reader into a character's head and I thoroughly enjoy the ride once I'm there. While I was occasionally I felt the authenticity lacking (just a little bit), I was impressed by the variety of points of view c...more
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If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
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My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Possibly one of the worst cases of a crime fiction novel I've ever read. I'm hoping it was something about being lost in translation, but I don't think so. It opened beautifully, but the rest of the novel simply had the protagonist asking everyone qu...more
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As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
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The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal
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I had to send this back to the library because while it is brilliant (what I've read so far), it was far too close to the bone for me to be able to cope with it back in February when I was going through what the author went through.

That probably so...more
Jody gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
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