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July 03
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YiShun
gave  to:
The Little Stranger (Hardcover)
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Sarah Waters
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June 24
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YiShun
added:
Love That Dog (Paperback)
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Sharon Creech
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YiShun
added:
Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer (Hardcover)
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Laini Taylor (Goodreads author)
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YiShun
added:
Elijah Of Buxton (Hardcover)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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May 28
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YiShun
gave  to:
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
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Jodi Picoult
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YiShun said:
"i had high hopes for this book. the jacket says it's on par with anna quindlen, and that it's "high concept." then again, that review is from EW. anyway, i found this book to be very disappointing. about the only thing that's really interes...more
i had high hopes for this book. the jacket says it's on par with anna quindlen, and that it's "high concept." then again, that review is from EW. anyway, i found this book to be very disappointing. about the only thing that's really interesting is the set-up in the book: a 13-year-old sues for medical emancipation from her parents, to prevent them from harvesting her body any more to save her sister from dying from leukemia. this story is told from many different points of view: the 13-year-old protagonist, the father, the brother, the mother, the attorney handling the case, even the court-appointed guardian in the legal case.
with so many characters, i expected richness of language, the feeling i get when i meet a roomful of interesting people at once, the sense of getting to know each and every one of them intimately.
tell me, then, why each and every one of them uses the same language? the 13-year-old speaks like a literary sophisticate. so do the rest of them, even the hard-knocks attorney.
lame. really, really, lame, and then ending just about did it for me. [/me throws this book across the room, too.:](less)
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YiShun
gave  to:
The 6th Target (Women's Murder Club #6)
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James Patterson
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YiShun said:
"awful. good for nothing but passing time; the voices were indistinct, the characters quite boring; the places where Patterson tries to get emotional overwrought and cliched. this book made me feel, for the first time, like i've been reading too much....more
awful. good for nothing but passing time; the voices were indistinct, the characters quite boring; the places where Patterson tries to get emotional overwrought and cliched. this book made me feel, for the first time, like i've been reading too much. what is it that everyone sees in this series? am i missing the point? have i become a book snob? argh! [/me chucks book across room.:](less)
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YiShun
gave to:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover)
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Mary Ann Shaffer
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YiShun said:
"i thought i was really going to like this book, but it disintegrated rapidly into a mere shadow of "The Hours." how infinitely disappointing.
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May 21
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YiShun
gave to:
The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1)
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C.S. Lewis
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YiShun said:
"oi. how did i never read this book? lovely story, too much bible-stuff. duh.
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YiShun
gave  to:
End in Tears (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Paperback))
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Ruth Rendell
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YiShun said:
"I usually like a good, cerebral mystery. Not so this one.
Perhaps I stepped into the Guv'nor Wexford thing, but I found this book tedious, peopled with far too many characters. Maybe it was the mood I was in. It's usually a bad idea to try and r...more
I usually like a good, cerebral mystery. Not so this one.
Perhaps I stepped into the Guv'nor Wexford thing, but I found this book tedious, peopled with far too many characters. Maybe it was the mood I was in. It's usually a bad idea to try and read a book when the rest of your life is in moving chaos. I'll give her books another go; I rather liked Wexford and his proclivities, even if I found his DSs and DCs annoying and too many.(less)
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