Quick Summary:
40 - Gordon R. Dickson, On the Run, 3.5 stars.
41 - Graham Joyce, Dark Sister, 4 stars.
42 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, The Palace, 3 stars.
43 - C.S. Friedman, This Alien Shore, 5 stars.
44 - Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking, 5 stars.

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Short summary:
34. Michael Connelly's City of Bones - 4 stars.
35. Samuel M. Key/Charles de Lint's Angel of Darkness - 4 stars.
36. Robert Holdstock's Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn - 4 stars.
37. Nick Sagan's Idlewild - 5 stars.
38. Bram Stoker's Dracula - 1 star.
39. Tara K. Harper's Wolfwalker - 5 stars.

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Book 33: Nick Sagan, Edenborn, 311 pages. I didn't realize that this is actually the second book set in a post-apocalypse future Earth, which is why I'm reading them out of order. It has strong cyberpunk leanings (with the internet as IVR), but the tale is not so technically heavy that the casual reader can't enjoy it. Perhaps the science isn' ( Read more... )

Book reviews, books 28-32.

Brief version: George Orwell: Animal Farm - 4 stars. Andrei Codrescu: The Blood Countess - 0 stars. Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt - 2 stars. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: Hotel Transylvania - 5 stars. Lois Lowry: The Giver - 5 stars.

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