false 911184 female Apollo Beach, FL 02/2008 12/2009 11 420 397 true 5707185 read 4 true 1855273 currently-reading 19 true 1855272 to-read 1 false 9209495 first-reads Mind's Eye (Inspector Van Veeteren #1) by Håkan Nesser]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82184246 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FCzN9czuL._SL75_.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:57:24 -0800 The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Hardcover) by Patrick Radden Keefe]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82172469 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255664655s/6004724.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:40:16 -0800 Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever (Hardcover) by Walter Kirn]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81102327 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255631195s/2563965.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:38:38 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82074555 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255681445s/6101718.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:38:15 -0800
I find it hard to believe we could be so far apart on this one! And no, alas, I haven't found any really good vampire novels since Kostova's Historian. (The Twilight ones are mind candy but that's all.) You might try de Lint's Mystery of Grace for a similar read, though.

Seems to me the biggest problem with these books isn't the original - it's all the follow-ons....even Naomi Novik got dull after the fourth.]]> The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80437220 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255570700s/2429135.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:26:46 -0800 Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Hardcover) by Kazuo Ishiguro]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80437119 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255807209s/6100514.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:37:03 -0800 more...]]> The Counterfeit Guest: A Novel (Paperback) by Rose Melikan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80437013 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245905552s/6086011.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:29:59 -0800 more...]]> Hide and Seek (An Inspector Rebus Novel) by Ian Rankin]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81553046 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223647659s/77490.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:24:29 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74750083 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255740234s/6218281.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:22:59 -0800
Boy, do I miss Booklist!]]> The Resurrection Men (Thomas Potts) by Sara Fraser]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81102416 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GC4gWl8eL._SL75_.jpg 911184 Leslie http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1203097587p2/911184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/911184-leslie Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:38:43 -0800