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Apr 14, 2010 02:33PM
#37 Arcadia Falls, Carol Goodman, very good, although the ending was a bit too i don't know, tidy, and the teenage daughter a little annoying, but then, i don't have any daughters, but i loved the fairytales.
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#38 The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey, Loved It!, gave it 4*, but may have to go back and change it to 5. I adore a good mystery and this was the best!
If you liked Daughter of Time, you must try her Brat Farrar. It's one of my all time faves. Fran wrote: "#37 The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey, Loved It!, gave it 4*, but may have to go back and change it to 5. I adore a good mystery and this was the best!"
Thanks, I'll look for it. How did I never hear of this woman before? I've already ordered "The Man In the Queue" from the library.
I had heard about Daughter of Time because of an interest in Richard III. The book is often seen as leading the charge to recast Richard as a victim rather than the bad guy Shakespeare made him out to be. I tried a couple of Tey's other books and wasn't the impressed. Then years later picked up Brat Farrar and read it in a day.
#39 The Picture of Dorian Gray, I need to read more classics considering there is a reason they are classics. 5*s.
Fran wrote: "#37 The Picture of Dorian Gray, I need to read more classics considering there is a reason they are classics. 5*s."That is also my goal for my summer reading ( to read more classics) Good Luck and Happy Reading!
#40 Shanghi Girls Lisa See
#41 31 Bond Street, Ellen Horan, Very good.
#42 Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
#44 Confederate in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
#46 Loitering With Intent, Muriel Spark#47 Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris
#50 Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
#51 Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
#54 The Executioner, Jesse Kellerman, very good
#55 The Case of the Missing Servant, Tarquin Hall, Lots of fun
#57 Sworn to Silence, Linda Castillo. I was disappointed. Gave it 3 starts, but probably should have been two. I was hoping to learn more about the Amish culture, and found the situations (characters?) too predictable and way too many cliches, but I was interested enough to keep reading to the end even though the reader just knows how it's going to turn out.
#58 The Deadly Dance, M.C. Beaton, love, love, love Aggie#59 The Lonely Polygamist, Brady Udall - not too sure about this one. Enjoyed it very much but was disappointed in the end and not at all sure why it ended that way, and need to find a discussion on it.
#61 The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Lola Shoneyin#62 That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
#63 The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Very funny, very good.
#64 The Map of True Places, Brunonia Barry, Just ok.
#65 The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing, Tarquin Hall, fun series.
#67 A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George
#69 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon, Very Good
# 70 The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alexander McCall Smith, Love this series.
#71 The Devil Amongst the Lawyers, Sharon McCrumb
#72, Bight Lights, Big Ass, Jen Lancaster, When I saw she was not only an ex-sorority girl, but an ex-sorority girl from Purdue, I had to read it! And so glad I did, very, very funny. I have to go back to the used book store and look for her others.
#73 13 1/2 Nevada Barr, disappointing. I figured out the mystery way too early and kept reading thinking there had to be more to it. There wasn't. And too many things people (characters?) should have questioned, they didn't. If those edges had been smoothed out a little it could have been a much, much better story.
#74 What Angels Fear, C.S.Harris, Liked it, didn't love it, but will definitely look for the next in the series.#75, Sarah's Key, Tatiana deRosnay, amazing
#77 A Small Death in the Great Glen, A. D. Scott, way too many characters and story lines and just way, way too jumpy. disappointing.
#78 The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama, Beautiful#79 As Husbands Go, Susan Isaacs, only ok.
#80 Sizzling sixteen, Janet Evanovich, same old same old, #81, Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro Kazuo, Fantastic, I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.
#82 Corduroy Mansions, Alexander McCall Smith#83 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
#84, Lone Survivor, Marcus Luttrell#85, Room, Emma Donoghue, amazing
#86 Still Life, Louise Penny, loved it! 4 1/2*s
#87 The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford#88 We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver, fantastic
#89 Fatal Grace, Louise Penny, very good
#90 The Girl Who Chased The Moon, Sarah Addison Allen, #91 The Lost German Slave Girl, John Bailey
