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Author Rec - Georgette Heyer
Now I know a lot of you are going to say, oh, yeah, her, I've read her forever.
But I hadn't. Not until several of y'all pushed, prodded, and generally coerced me into trying her. (What, a romance writer? Ehwww...) But I did, yes. She is that good.
So I just finished Devil's Cub, the sequel to The Nonesuch. And I was giggling madly, just ( Read more... ) -
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Title: The Value of X
Author: Poppy Z. Brite
Genre: romance
Approximate length: 183 pages
Rating: 8.5
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Almost Like Being In Love
Title: Almost Like Being In Love
Author: Steve Kluger
Genre: Fiction
Pages: ~350
Rating: 9
I read this at the recommendation of archerlass (see her original post here). I can't second her recommendation strongly enough!
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A book rec
Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Genre: Fiction
Approximate length: 518 pages
Rating: 9.5
Summary: Henry loves Claire and Claire loves Henry. She has known him since she was 6. He meets her for the first time when he is 28 and she is 20. As Henry helplessly bounces around in time, unwilling victim of his time ( Read more... ) -
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I read this book a while ago but thought it was definitely one to give others a "heads up" on
Title: The Years of Rice and Salt
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Genre: Historical/Science Fiction - Depending on which way you look at it.
Approximate length: 699 pages
Rating: 9
Summary: What would have happened if the black plague wiped out most of ( Read more... ) -
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Title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Author: Ann Brashares
Genre: Fiction
Approximate length: 300 pages
Rating: 9
Summary: Four best friends spend their first summer apart, but share it with a pair of "magical" pants which they each take turns keeping and wearing.
Assessment: This was a really fun read. Fast, but that's not a bad ( Read more... ) -
Just Read This...
Title: One Child
Author: Torey Hayden
Genre: Psychology, drama, non-fiction
Approximate length: 300 +/-
Rating: 8
Summary: One teacher's account of her struggle with the disturbed but extraordinary child Sheila.
Assessment: Written much along the same lines as Virginia Axline's Dibs in Search of Self, One Child is a no-holds-barred account ( Read more... ) -
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Title: His Dark Materials Triology
Author: Philip Pullman
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Approximate length: Book 1, The Golden Compass, 351 pages; Book II, The Subtle Knife, 326 pages; Book III, The Amber Spyglass, 518 pages
Rating: 10
Summary: Lyra, an ordinary girl in a world like ours in many ways but also very different, decides to hide in ( Read more... ) -
Almost Like Being in Love
Title: Almost Like Being in Love
Author: Steve Kluger
Genre: Fiction
Approximate length: 350 pages
Rating: 9
Summary: Travis and Craig meet and fall in love at boarding school and have an amazing summer together before separating to attend their respective colleges. Circumstances keep them apart. Twenty years later Travis resolves to find the ( Read more... )