false 32 338 290 true 5686605 read 1 true 167752 currently-reading 47 true 167751 to-read 0 false 167757 recentlyfinished 0 false 171919 haveread http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79442496 The 19th Wife: A Novel (Paperback) by David Ebershoff
Really compelling story about polygamists past and present, but drags a lot in the last 1/4. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75050834 to: Legacy (Hardcover) by Thomas E. Sniegoski
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72445663 to: Elephant Run (Hardcover) by Roland Smith
A really lovely YA book about an unusual topic, the Japanese invasion of Burma in WWII. More than that though, this book is abuot loyalty and friendships, elephants and Buddhist monks, secret passageways and spies. It's very exciting and suspenseful at times, but the beautiful writing and balance of characters makes it more than the typical boys' war novel. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74314439 to: Her Fearful Symmetry (Hardcover) by Audrey Niffenegger
I think this book might, might, might be a 4.75 instead of a 5, but then again, I might be judging it too harshly since her first book (the Time Traveler's Wife) is so perfect and lovely. You see, I think this is a nearly perfect book too, but I'm not sure I loved it in quite the same way as the other. I can't imagine how these stories unfold in her mind, because they are so intricate and so dependent on minutiae that it seems almost impossible to write such a book so flawlessly. My only criticism would be that I came to care for the characters only late in the book (maybe 100 pages in), meaning that I got to spend less time with them than I would have liked after I really cared about them and understood each one's point of view. I must give serious points for controlled creepiness; there are parts of this book that are downright terrifying, except that somehow the events described seem logical and normal at the same time. I will certainly re-read this one, as I have re-read her other one so many, happy times. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72445701 The Year of the Flood (Hardcover) by Margaret Atwood
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72445688 The Sky Inside (Hardcover) by Clare B. Dunkle
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72445674 Ingo (Ingo, #1) by Helen Dunmore
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72445631 Sunrise Over Fallujah (Hardcover) by Walter Dean Myers
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72445404 to: The Historian (Paperback) by Elizabeth Kostova
This was a hard one to rate. The first time I tried reading it, I was too scared to finish it. This time I got all the way through unscathed, and I really liked it a lot, but it was LONG. I usually love a long book, but by the end of this one I was sort of begging for it to end. Again, not because I didn't like it, but because I was tired and ready for something new. Strangely enough, the ending seemed pretty rushed to me. It's more of a 3 1/2 really. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67377831 to: The Snare: A Novel (Banner Books) by Elizabeth Spencer
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