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Megan's favorite books

A Year In The Life Of William Shakespeare, 1599 by James Shapiro

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke

The Seven-percent Solution by David R. Meyer

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Megan is Currently Reading

Megan is currently reading:

Hospital Station (Sector General, #1)

by James White

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Aug 06, 2010 07:42am

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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

by Peter Ackroyd

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Jan 06, 2010 09:26pm

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Megan's Recent Updates

Megan marked as to-read: Walking Out on the Boys by Frances K. Conley	My rating:
Jan 20, 2012 02:22pm
Megan gave to: Hit List (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #20) by Laurell K. Hamilton read in January, 2012	My rating:
I miss when Edward used to show up out of nowhere and hand Anita a new dangerous toy, kick ass, and disappear again. And for the resolution of a major plotline, there was no drama to it! I like how Hamilton did it, metaphysically speaking, but having...more
Jan 20, 2012 06:26am · see review
Megan gave to: Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl read in January, 2012	My rating:
I was hoping this would be like Caroline B. Cooney's Goddess of Yesterday meets Owl in Love, a Patrice Kindl book I loved as a kid, but it was disappointingly bland. The opening image -- of Ariadne's ghost descending into Hades as her sister watches ...more
Jan 20, 2012 06:21am · see review
Megan gave to: Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) by Scott Lynch read in December, 2011	My rating:
One of my pet peeves is when one character says to another, "Hey, let's perform actions a and b to get desired result x!" and the rest of the story proceeds accordingly. Lynch doesn't do that. Instead, he makes plans at length, and then foils them re...more
Jan 10, 2012 10:00am · see review
Megan gave to: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut read in December, 2011	My rating:
Like Cat's Cradle, but less fun. Great narrative structure kept me going for a while, but there comes a point where that's not enough.
Dec 28, 2011 11:20pm · see review
Megan gave to: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin read in December, 2011	My rating:
Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel: such interesting people. So many other books to read about them, that aren't all "look at my prose style being a prose style, with its prosish stylings."
Dec 28, 2011 11:17pm · see review
Megan gave to: Bullet (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #19) by Laurell K. Hamilton read in December, 2011	My rating:
Okay, I see where we're going now. Nice to see Richard being reasonable for the first time in like ten books.
Dec 28, 2011 11:14pm · see review
Megan gave to: Flirt (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #18) by Laurell K. Hamilton read in December, 2011	My rating:
Not bad for what it was, but this whole book would barely have been a subplot back around Burnt Offerings/Bloody Bones.
Dec 28, 2011 11:10pm · see review
Megan gave to: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee read in December, 2011	My rating:
Amazing, again, on re-re-reread. This time around I felt like I wanted to read some criticism, or a biography of Harper Lee, to go with it. Good airplane reading.
Dec 28, 2011 11:07pm · see review
Megan gave to: John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs read in July, 2011	My rating:
Dec 06, 2011 06:15am