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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
by Alex Stone
read in February, 2013
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| Fooling Houdini is an illuminating glimpse into the intensely secretive, obsessive world of magic and magicians. Without giving away too much, Stone illustrates the dedication and practice necessary to even be considered a passable, let alone good ma...more | |
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rated a book 5 of 5 stars
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| What a treat! This book is a rather silly, yet very well written account of the second Myfanwy Thomas, who wakes up in a park surrounded by people she killed with her bare hands and no memory of anything before that moment. Luckily, the original Myfa...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 3 of 5 stars
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How Should a Person Be is a somewhat neurotic, self-obsessed essay/novel in which Sheila explores exactly that - how should a person be. I also can't help but feel that the aimless twenty-something (especially the aimless twenty-something FORMER ART...more |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| I had a particularly weird experience reading this book. It reads like historical fiction and I had to constantly remind myself that the book is set in the present tense, and not in the 40s. It is a novel of prison mines, and ration cards, and loudsp...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| Nicole George had an unusual family life. She was told that her father died from colon cancer, when she was 2, but a palm reader's claim that her father was still alive sent her on a mission to find out the truth. What transpires is an interesting st...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| The Bravo Squad was filmed by a Fox News crew, in the middle of an unexpected battle, when the survivors become instant celebrities. They are sent on a victory tour, where they meet the president, and participate in many parades. The tour's grand fin...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 5 of 5 stars
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| I read this at the exact perfect moment. It was a foggy, misty, grey day, where I stayed home and read. I was looking at the Hudson in the same conditions that prevail throughout the book. Because of the fog, I couldn't see the Tappan Zee Bridge, and...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 5 of 5 stars
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| Evie, a 17-year-old flapper wannabe, is sent to stay with her Uncle Will in New York City after getting into some slanderous trouble at home. It's the 1920s and Evie can't see how it would be a punishment, other than the fact that her uncle runs the...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| I'm guessing that at one point Barbara Shapiro was a painter. It's not because she can describe the process of classical painting, or the drive to be an artist, or the way a painting can be cleaned - or removed, but because her character seems to hav...more | |
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Valley Cottage Library
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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The Yellow Birds is an account of the horrors of the Iraq war from a poet's point of view. The language is beautiful, the insights are very personal and the things the main character had to deal with are truly gruesome. It deals with the loss of frien...more |
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