MB's Book Diary: What She Read in 2009

[MB (What she read)]

Leshawn wrote: "Are you feeling better MB?
I hope so!
Here are some get well wishes from one of your fans!"

Oh thanks Leshawn! Yes, I'm feeling better, thank goodness.

[Dini]

Hi MB. What did you think about The Finishing Touches? I've only read Browne's first Little Lady Agency book and liked it.

[MB (What she read)]

Hi Dini! I liked it almost as much as The Little Lady Agency. It was a very cute story and I liked the finishing school touches. In comparison, it was a little slow in places and there's not tons of romance, but I enjoyed it a lot--more than I did the last two books in the 'Little Ladies' series anyway. It was a total comfort read for me.

You'll have to let me know how you liked it if you read it. (Then if you do, you might like to try Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro as well.)

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(139) 6/15/09 "The Truth About Melody Browne" by Lisa Jewell (****)

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(140) 6/16/09 "Not Quite A Husband" by Sherry Thomas (****)

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(141) 6/17/09 "Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons (***)

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(142) 6/19/09 "Dune Road" by Jane Green (***)

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(143) 6/19/09 "Wedding Tiers" by Trisha Ashley (***)

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(144) 6/20/09 "A Date You Can't Refuse" by Harley Jane Kozak (***)

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(145) 6/21/09 "Love Letters" by Katie Fforde (**)

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(146) 6/22/09 "Too Good To Be True" by Kristan Higgins (****)

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(147) 6/24/09 "Conference at Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons (****)

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(148) 6/27/09 "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons (*****)
Re-reading for the umpteenth time...I love this book!

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(149) 6/28/09 "Smooth Talking Stranger" by Lisa Kleypas (****)

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(150) 6/29/09 "The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis (*****)

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(151) 7/3/09 "My Cup Runneth Over" by Cherry Whytock (***)

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(152) 7/5/09 "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet" by Reif Larsen (***1/2)

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(153) 7/7/09 "The Fixer-Upper" by Mark Kay Andrews (***)
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(154) 7/8/09 "Knock Out" by Catherine Coulter (***)

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(155) 7/10/09 "The Flying Warlord" by Leo Frankowski (***)

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(156) 7/11/09 "Lord Conrad's Lady" by Leo Frankowski (***)

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(157) 7/14/09 "A Homemade Life" by Molly Wizenberg (***)

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(158) 7/15/09 "Johannes Cabal, The Necromancer" by Jonathan L. Howard (***1/2)

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(159) 7/18/09 "The New Space Opera" ed. by Gardner R. Dozois (***)

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(160) 7/21/09 "A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: A Novel" by Nicholas Drayson (****)
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(161) 7/22/09 "We Never Talk About My Brother" by Peter S. Beagle (***1/2)
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(162) 7/24/09 "A Famine of Horses" by P.F. Chisholm (****)

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(163) 7/25/09 "Promised Land" by Cynthia Felice and Connie Williams (****)

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(164) 7/26/09 "What Happens in London" by Julia Quinn (**)

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(165) 7/26/09 "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner (**)

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(166) 7/29/09 "The Man With The Golden Torc" by Simon R. Green (***)

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(167) 7/31/09 "Something Missing" by Matthew Dicks (***1/2)

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(168) 8/1/09 "Don't Tempt Me" by Loretta Chase (***1/2)

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(169) 8/3/09 "Neptune Crossing" by Jeffrey A. Carver (**)

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(170) 8/3/09 "This Duchess of Mine" by Eloisa James (***1/2)

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(171) 8/4/09 "A Season of Knives" by P.F. Chisholm (****)

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(172) 8/6/09 "Light Raid" by Cynthia Felice and Connie Willis (***)

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(173) 8/7/09 "Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts: An A-to-Z..." by Martha Stewart (**)

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(174) 8/8/09 "Addled: A Novel" by JoeAnn Hart (****)

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(175) 8/10/09 "Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years" edited by Pamela Sargent (***1/2)

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(176) 8/12/09 "Nothing Human" by Nancy Kress (***1/2)

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(177) 8/15/09 "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman (**)

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(178) 8/15/09 "Troll's Eye View" edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (***)

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(179) 8/17/09 "Monster" by A. Lee Martinez (**)

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(180) 8/18/09 "That Old Cape Magic" by Richard Russo (***1/2)

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(181) 8/19/09 "General Winston's Daughter" by Sharon Shinn (***)

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(182) 8/20/09 "Remnant Population" by Elizabeth Moon (***)



(183) 8/20/09 "Arabel's Raven" by Joan Aiken (*****)

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(184) 8/21/09 "Madam, Will You Talk?" by Mary Stewart (**)



(185) 8/21/09 "Castle Waiting" by Linda Medley (***)

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(186) 8/23/09 "Sand Sharks" by Margaret Maron (***)

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(187) 8/23/09 "Mortimer Says Nothing" (*****)



(188) 8/23/09 "Mortimer's Cross" (*****)



(189) 8/23/09 "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century" (***)

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(190) "A Surfeit of Guns" by P.F. Chisholm (****)