You may have heard the hype about A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. If you did, I hope you also heard it's "a grown-up Twilight," and run screaming already. I was not smart enough to read the reviews before I picked it up, and so I have suffered, that you may avoid it like the plague.

( I wound up swearing at my car speakers as the audio book played. )

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water for elephants by Sara Gruen

summary from amazon.com: The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been ( Read more... )

Vampire Hunter D: Tale of the Dead Town, by Hideyuki Kikuchi.


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I've only read one of your short stories but it was enough to put me off from ever touching your books.

Do you know how to not make your character come across as sympathetic? By having her take pictures of a naked girl in the locker room without the girl's knowledge or consent. And do you know what is not a good revenge against a high schooler ( Read more... )

So my mother gave me two (very different) books to read yesterday, telling me that they were the best of thier genre she'd read in ages. I've tried chapter one of both and felt decidedly *head**wall*/*yawn* about them ( Read more... )

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