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Kris Irvin rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredith Zeitlin
Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters
by Meredith Zeitlin (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
I really liked the ending of this book. But the rest of it, I was pretty ambivalent on. I couldn't keep all the friends straight (they all seemed like the same person to me.) I thought the main character was a total snot and an all around awful perso...more
Kris Irvin rated a book 3 of 5 stars
The Secret of the Nightingale Palace by Dana Sachs
The Secret of the Nightingale Palace
by Dana Sachs (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
I really enjoyed this book while i was reading it and I thought the ending was fantastic. But I kind of hated the characters. Not a passionate hate, but a mild hate. They were all kind of not nice people in their own ways. I forgive them, but they we...more
Kris Irvin rated a book 5 of 5 stars
If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
If You Find Me
by Emily Murdoch (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Good gravy this book was good. I couldn't put it down. I just couldn't stop. I COULDN'T STOP. DANGER.

Okay, let's be honest. The story is a little predictable. The big twist? not so twisty. But that's okay, because the rest of the story was really, r...more
Kris Irvin rated a book 2 of 5 stars
The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty
I was not super impressed with this novel. For one thing, it goes on for way, way too long. There was probably a good 100 pages that could have been chopped off (closer to 200 without losing much of the story.) Also, it wasn't very interesting or com...more
Kris Irvin marked as to-read:
The Last Empress by Daisy Goodwin
The Last Empress
by Daisy Goodwin (Goodreads Author)
Kris Irvin rated a book 1 of 5 stars
A Common Life by Jan Karon
By far the worst Mitford book. If she wanted to write the wedding story, why not just include it in a real Mitford book? The order of this series irritates me too (this one is #6, but should be #5.)

No me likey.
Kris Irvin marked as to-read:
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende
Maya's Notebook
by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
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More of Kris's books…
Victor Hugo
“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

George Bernard Shaw
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
George Bernard Shaw

Victor Hugo
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Anne Lamott
“I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.”
Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Leo Tolstoy
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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2013 Reading Challenge
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