false1980480206385Tim Erickson55maleThe United States01/200912/200940John McPhee30168161true5688599read1true4324851currently-reading6true4324850to-read38false4330219mystery34false4330042sci-fi29false4348589humor21false4330161formative17false4439548historical-fiction14false4348731fantasy-magic11false4330153nonfiction8false8691931classic8false4483594popular5false4433117spy4false5408295prodigy-narrator1false9290800thrillerThe Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics) by Anthony Trollope]]>
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:46:55 -0800Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Strout]]>
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:28:50 -0800The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson]]>
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:27:22 -0800
One Step Behind, which I read a few years ago by the more-famous Henning Mankell, and The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson, this is set in Sweden and translated from the Swedish.
And that may be my principal misgiving. There is something—I don't know—removed? ...more...]]>
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson]]>
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:26:02 -0800 First, I didn't enjoy it as much because it is a thriller, that is, there are scenes from the bad guys' POV, and the tension is not finding out who did it, but how the goo...more...]]>
Restless (Paperback) by William Boyd]]>
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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:02:18 -0800 You know how the first ten pages are supposed to get you? Wow. And pretty damned good description added to a gripping plot. For example:
...the manor house was falling down, on its last woodwormed legs, giving up its parched ghost to entropy. Sagging tarpaulins cover...
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Any Human Heart (Paperback) by William Boyd]]>
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:14:12 -0800Mansfield Park (Paperback) by Jane Austen]]>
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:03:38 -0800Northanger Abbey (Paperback) by Jane Austen]]>
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:03:37 -0800Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen]]>
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:03:25 -0800