I got busy last year and didn't keep up with my reviews, but here's a list. The fact that I get to read a lot of novels in my graduate program definitely helps :)

1. The Pleasure Palace: Secrets of the Tudor Court by Kate Emerson
2. By Royal Decree: Secrets of the Tudor Court by Kate Emerson
3. Between Two Queens: Secrets of the Tudor Court by Kate Emerson
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Book #45 -- Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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"Linden Hills" by Gloria Naylor

Not much of an idea? It was a wonderful idea - colossal. Anything that put the music back in Ruth's voice as she spoke to him. He would go into Linden Hills and work his butt off. Then he'd take the money and buy her and Norm a great gift - maybe even a turkey, too. Ruth wanted him to go into Linden Hills and he ( Read more... )

I totally failed at updating last year, but I'm resolving to do better this year. At any rate, I've finished my first two for the year.

Book #1 was Blanche on the Lam by BarbaraNeely.

From Amazon: Blanche, a street-smart black domestic on the run from the sheriff for passing a bad check (again), winds up cooking and caring for edgy Miz Grace ( Read more... )

So another year passes. 2010 felt like one of those years that you blinked and it was over already. I think it was one of those years where I learnt a lot about myself and what I’m willing to accept and not accept out of life and people. That aside (because as if that’s relevant to my reading habits), whilst I haven’t made fifty this year (nor ( Read more... )

78. Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, Book 3) - Kim Harrison 
                The third book in the series.  I don't have much to say.  It's a good book, very much like Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, but with plot.  It's clear, though, that the book is only spell checked and not read through by a human editor, since there were some ( Read more... )

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Book 20: Next by Michael Crichton - 540 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
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Beloved by Toni Morrison 275 pages

This book tells the story of a small family of former slaves living in Cincinnatti just after the end of the American Civil War.

As a white Englishwoman I feel massively unqualified to comment meaningfully on this book which I found  really hard  to read. Not because of the writing style, although it uses an almost ( Read more... )