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Her Fearful Symmetry: A Book Review
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerPublished 2009 / 401 pagesReading Challenges:100+ Reading ChallengeCountdown ChallengeSynopsis from Publishers Weekly:When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters...
Bending Toward the Sun: A Review
Book description taken from the website of the author of Bending Toward the Sun, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie:A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Wea...
Wait Until Twilight: A Book Review
Wait Until Twilight is my first read for the Countdown 2009/2010 Challenge. It was published August 4, 2009.Book Description from Harper Collins:A hauntingly strange and powerfully affecting debut novel that heralds the arrival of a unique and captiv...
Drumroll Please...
And the winners of my BIG Michelle Moran giveaway are:Lisa from Book Blab - wins an autographed paperback copy of The Heretic Queenand...Renee from Steeler Girl's Blog - wins an autographed hardcover of Cleopatra's DaughterCongratulations to the winn...
Teaser Tuesday
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:1. Grab your current read. 2. Open to a random page. 3. Share two (or three or four, if you're me) “teaser” sentences from...
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: A Book Review
Synopsis from Amazon.com:In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.Rare-bo...
Dark Slayer: A Book Review
Christine Feehan's Dark Slayer is book #20 in her fantastic Dark Carpathian series. Here's the synopsis from Feehan's website:A rumor has persisted in the vampire world of a dark slayer—a woman—who travels with a wolf pack and who destroys any va...
Hidden Currents: A Book Review
Hidden Currents is book 7 (the final installment, perhaps...) of Christine Feehan's enjoyable Drake Sisters series. In it, we find the story of the youngest sister Elle Drake, and the man destined to help her shoulder the intimidating Drake legacy, J...
Hand of Isis: A Book Review
"To rule the Black Land, you must love her. From Alexandria Queen of the Seas to the cataracts of the Nile, from the scholars and poets to the farmers in the fields, you must love her. Can you do that, daughter of Ptolemy? It will not be easy, and th...
Skin Trade: A Book Review
Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton in book 17 in the bestselling Anita Blake series. Released just two days ago, Skin Trade showcases a bit of the type of "old school" Anita Blake stories we know and love. Since the book is so new, and so many people ...
