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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52496382 to: The Boleyn Inheritance (Hardcover) by Philippa Gregory
I think this one was better than The Other Boleyn girl, but Gregory seems to like her books to be 100+ pages longer than they have to be, and this one was no different. About 2/3rds of the way through it starts to lag, and I found myself skimming parts that were repetitive. The end is a bit abrupt, too, like it was in Virgin Earth. It seems like she rambles on for a while and then realizes the book is getting too long, so instead of editing out the unnecessary parts, she just wraps everything up a bit too quickly. She could have added more about Katherine Parr...all the other wives had been given a good part of her books, but Parr only had one sentence about her.

Still, it's a good read, and one can get through it in a day or two despite the lagging parts. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50318252 to: Virgin Earth (Paperback) by Philippa Gregory
I liked The Other Boleyn girl, so I thought this would be a good, fast read. The first 1/3rd was mildly interesting. I was hoping the character development would continue, but it abruptly stopped when she started focusing several chapters on the Royalists vs. Parliamentarians. It didn't really seem pertinent to the main story...if there was a main story. Gregory could have removed the entire middle of the book and saved readers from a 650+ page book that ended up being a waste of time (in my opinion). It was really challenging to read this novel because I was waiting for it to pick up again. It never really did. Characters that seemed like they would get an interesting treatment were put aside. Even John Tradescant was underdeveloped, in my opinion. There was a frustrating unbelievable lack of response or emotion from some characters and annoying, drawn-out, ok-we-get-it overdramatic responses from others. One of my least favorite novels, ever. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52329737 Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956 (Paperback) by Bertolt Brecht
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My favorite parts are the headlines, point/counterpoint, and the 'interviews.' Sometimes, they really could have left out the stories and just had the headlines, and it would have been just as funny. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52329429 to: Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source (Paperback) by The Onion
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52329109 I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagons Black World (Hardcover) by Trevor Paglen
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52328726 Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover) by Neil Shubin
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52328644 The Braindead Megaphone (Paperback) by George Saunders
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