false 4 40 32 true 6230595 read 5 true 1039473 currently-reading 3 true 1039472 to-read 3 false 2147019 on-hiatus http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62574780 to: Uzumaki (Volume 3) by Junji Ito
The series was really bizarre, I enjoyed reading it. I'm a fan of horror/mystery types of stories, but the ending is often disappointing after all the build-up and strange occurrences.

Unfortunately, I wasn't too thrilled with the way this series ended. There were so many "What the hell?!" moments throughout, but the ending just seemed kind of blah. Maybe I'm just used to big surprises and positive resolutions.

Though I will admit, without giving anything away, that the way the series ended did fit well thematically with the rest of the story. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62574778 to: Uzumaki (Volume 2) by Junji Ito
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61451790 King Rat (Paperback) by China Miéville
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41437872 Ubik (Paperback) by Philip K. Dick
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38451660 Walden, or Life in the Woods (paper) by Henry David Thoreau
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38451284 to: The Graveyard Book (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman
As this is Gaiman's newest book, I had to check it out. Like Coraline, it is a juvenile story about a juvenile protagonist, but the events and subject matter of the book take on an often dark and mature tone. This adaptation of The Jungle Book - replacing the jungle with a graveyard and the denizens of the jungle with the dead and undead - kept me interested to the very end. Like the first time I read Stardust, I couldn't stop reading this book once I started, and I finished it in a few days. All in all, a good read. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26072619 to: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories (Hardcover) by Karen Russell
I can't explain exactly why, but I really liked the short stories in this book. Each story independently dealt with some aspect of growing up, but the scenarios that the characters found themselves in were unique and often fanciful. Though the characters were all children or teenagers, the author didn't resort to any superficial, "adult" attempt to characterize them as such - instead, they were treated as individual personalities with their own thoughts and drives.

I was a little bothered that none of the stories really came to any definite conclusion, but at the same time, they would not have had the same feeling if they had. ]]>