false 8 172 142 true 5639046 read 3 true 92875 currently-reading 27 true 92874 to-read 60 false 92940 bookreviews 16 false 113581 librariantoolkit 7 false 179387 fictionallsortssources 4 false 292736 bests-wow 2 false 92929 to-readthrillershp 1 false 1344715 good-crime-fiction 1 false 135977 letdowns 1 false 946493 mysteryclassics 1 false 93516 to-read-noirishhp 0 false 93006 westerns http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32879296 Flying in Place (Paperback) by Susan Palwick
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66305999 A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 (Hardcover) by Susan Pinkard
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51825354 The Tricking of Freya (Hardcover) by Christina Sunley
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32343690 to: Vodka Neat (Faith Zanetti #3) by Anna Blundy
Although I almost gave up on this book a couple of times, in the end there were things I liked a lot about it.

This passage, for instance:

..."We had gone through some wooden doors into heaven, or the stage just before it. It was so dark in here that all I could immediately see were thousands and thousands of flickering candles and walls of gold. The air was full of intoxicating incense and Dimitri fell to his knees. I almost have liked to cross myself but I didn't know how. A choir was chanting Orthodox mysteries somewhere in the gloom and a bearded priest in black robes swung a censer at them, muttering divine truths ... It was the first and probably the last time that I nearly believed in God. And He lived here."

The book is narrated by a character who is a serious alcoholic. I'm gonna posit that that's why so many aspects of it were fuzzy and unformed. After all, how well does an alcoholic remember things? ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32343664 to: Vodka Neat (Faith Zanetti #3) by Anna Blundy
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/554659 to: End in Tears (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Paperback)) by Ruth Rendell
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With the publication of End in Tears, the incomparable Ruth Rendell has now written twenty-some books of psychological suspense featuring Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford. In this story, teenage mother Amber Marshalson is found dead after a night clubbing with her friends. Soon after, the body of one of her friends turns up. Why did both of the girls travel to Frankfurt some months back? Where did Amber get two thousand pounds? Were the two girls involved with drugs? Was it blackmail? And what about the pregnancy angle? The forays into the personal lives of the detectives are just as absorbing as the main story. Highly recommended, as are all of the Wexford books. Rendell is a genius. ]]>