Saturday - October 03, 2009
A Respectable Trade
A Respectable Trade (1995) by Philippa Gregory
Wednesday - May 27, 2009
The Absolute Sandman, Vol. I
A hardcover collector's edition (thanks Jon!) of Sandman comics 1 - 20, plus bonus goodies.
Wednesday - February 04, 2009
The Mysterious Benedict Society
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (2007): smart junior fiction for ages 9-12
Thursday - January 15, 2009
One Hundred Years of Solitude
**** One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) and Gregory Rabassa (Translator) - (paperback translation 2006, original Spanish version 1967).
Sunday - November 16, 2008
fragile things
*** fragile things by Neil Gaiman (2006)
Monday - September 22, 2008
Smells Like Dead Elephants
*** Smells Like Dead Elephants, by Matt Taibbi (2007)
Sunday - July 27, 2008
Water for Elephants
**** Perfectly delicious summer fiction, requisite reading for anyone who's ever dreamed of running away to join the circus and was deterred by reasons other than the dirty, seedy underbelly of it.
Monday - July 21, 2008
Devil in the White City
***This engrossing non-fiction tale of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair intertwines with the story of a psychopathic murderer who used the setting to his advantage.
Wednesday - June 04, 2008
I, Mona Lisa
*** I, Mona Lisa, by Jeanne Kalogridis. Historical fiction... my new favorite genre... it's so good to be back, and damn, what a fat, fine story it is.
Wednesday - June 04, 2008
The Alchemist
*****The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho - a powerful little story, an instant classic
Friday - May 02, 2008
Maximum City
Maximum City, (2004) by Suketu Mehta - sorry to say I didn't even finish...
Thursday - March 27, 2008
5 more titles
Empress, by Shan Sa, Don't
Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller, The House of
the Spirits, by Isabel Allende, I'm America and So Can You,
by Stephen Colbert, and Take Big Bites, by Linda
Ellerbee.
Wednesday - July 11, 2007
...catching up, again!
7,000 Clams by Lee Irby, Two Old
Women by Velma Wallis, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna
Clarke, The Jester by James Patterson & Andrew Gross
Monday - February 19, 2007
Baudolino
*** a fictional tale that melds
medieval history and mythology into one bizarre, epic fable.
Monday - November 20, 2006
The Historian
**** a deep and rich historical
fiction that breathes new life into the beaten-to-death legend of
Dracula.
Monday - October 02, 2006
The Pocket and the Pendant
*** an all-inclusive fledgling sci-fi
novel; deliriously derivative and imaginative
Wednesday - September 27, 2006
The Lovely Bones
*** a dead teenager watches - from her
own limited version of heaven - the hell that unfolds in the wake of her
murder
Tuesday - September 26, 2006
Angela's Ashes
*** a boy's chronicle of poverty.
Irish Catholic depression era poverty.
Thursday - August 17, 2006
A Million Little Pieces
** stuck inside the mind of a
recovering addict, complete with 5 million little F-words and the self-centered
tapes that loop incessantly.
Friday - July 07, 2006
Bad Twin
*** it's a mystery to me, but i enjoyed the
ride
