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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover) by Harold McGee bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Paperback) by Dave Eggers, Sufjan Stevens, Carson Ellis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: Anyone
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"Every year I buy this collection and always find interesting reads -- essays, stories, graphic stories etc. that I don't find anywhere else. The introduction is always great too.
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A Ticket To The Boneyard: A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel (Mass Market Paperback) by Lawrence Block bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: no one I know
read in January, 2008
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"Having made it to page 283 and despite a terrible cold that is keeping me bedridden and in search of mindless entertainment, I still cannot recommend this book. We know who the bad guy is -- the entire "suspense" of the book is people who ...more
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The Rose Without a Thorn: The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback) by Jean Plaidy |
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"Entirely predictable (what with the historical fact of her head getting removed and all), but generally enjoyable, if not particularly insightful account of Catherine Howard. Fifth wife of Henry VIII.
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The Algebraist (Paperback) by Iain M. Banks |
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"Good fun science fiction, with a completely new, entirely believable, intelligibly complex world to get lost in.
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Bad Monkeys (Hardcover) by Matt Ruff |
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The Braindead Megaphone (Paperback) by George Saunders |
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read in January, 2008
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"George Saunders always has something interesting to say. These are more strident essays, but he is a gifted writer.
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the sea by John Banville |
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The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree; The Grey King; Greenwitch; The Dark Is Rising; and Over Sea, Under Stone (Paperback) by Susan Cooper |
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Darkmans (Hardcover) by Nicola Barker |
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Hthayer said:
"Great character development, truly memorable. Too bad the story was not quite of the same caliber.
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The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar (Enterprise) by H. W. Brands |
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"Readable book about the formation of monetary policy in the United States. Surprisingly interesting and understandable.
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Cod (Paperback) by Mark Kurlansky |
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read in January, 2008
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"A fascinating history (with recipes) of cod fishing. What, that doesn't sound fascinating? Well this author keeps one riveted on how cod fishing influenced history, down to the final decimation of the species.
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (Paperback) by Al Franken |
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