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Bitterblue and Fire by Kristin Cashore
By Night One Way, By Day Another by lusciouslemon
Descent and Can't Take The Sky by Fyre
Taken by the Monsters by K.J. Burkhardt
Mr And Mrs Gold by shegal92
Mirror Saga by tjmystic
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
An Arranged Marriage by Jan Hahn
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
Skin Deep by ddagent
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July's posting began with high hopes for completing the Fifty Book Challenge for 2012.  January has almost passed, and only now, the lack of progress report for the second half of the year.  The links at the dates point to the reviews posted at the Challenge.  Some books are particularly good (+) and others, particularly bad (-).

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Among the books in the departmental housecleaning stack (anyone with any experience around a university knows about departmental housecleaning stacks) was the seventh edition of Paula S. Rothenberg's Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, and once Book Review No. 24 is done, it goes back to the housecleaning stacks.  It's an anthology, and ( Read more... )

(I feel obliged to add a content note here: this review discusses sexual assault.)

I don't use the word "evil" lightly, but I found myself in its presence early in The Gift of Fear. Security consultant Gavin de Becker is interrogating a woman who narrowly survived a recent three-hour rape. He wants to know if her attacker gave off any signs ( Read more... )

His Wicked Ways by Jaide Fox
Besieged by Jaid Black
Mr Darcy's Secret by Jane Odiwe
Darcy's Temptation by Regina Jeffers
Mr Darcy's Bite by Mary Lydon Simonsen
American Vampire #23 by Scott Snyder
Jane and the Umpleasantness at Scargrave Manor and Jane and the Man of the Cloth by Stephanie Barron
The Walking Dead: We Find Ourselves by Robert ( Read more... )

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30 books left to read in 5 days...!

American Vampire (vl 21) by Scott Synder
Fables 16 by Bill Willingham
The Death of Joan of Arc and Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas by Michael Scott
Reflections on Dracula: 10 Essays by Elizabeth Miller
Journal of Dracula Studies #10 ed. Elizabeth Miller
Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole
Dracula ( ( Read more... )