12 May 2012
The Coincidence Engine Troubles
By Borah Coburn // Books
I have mixed feelings about Sam Leith’s novel, The Coincidence Engine. The basic plot is that there’s this genius/madman mathematician named Nicolas Banacharski, who may or may not have started …
10 May 2012
Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
Maybe it’s in the water here. I mean, mostly I’ve read that Los Angeles water is filled with parasites and toxins, but maybe it’s actually filled with a desire to …
08 May 2012
The Rook by Daniel O’Malle
By Borah Coburn // Books
The Rook is a novel that I FRICKIN’ LOVE!!! (I refuse to apologize for the capslocks. I am not ashamed. This is the strength of my love). It took me …
06 May 2012
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
Young adult romance is an art form like any other, and despite the lack of respect it often gets from mainstream audiences, it is certainly capable of being just as …
04 May 2012
Et In Arcadia Ego
By Borah Coburn // Books
Arcadia is Lauren Groff’s second novel and it’s wonderful. I read Groff’s first novel, The Monster’s of Templeton, years ago, and I liked it quite a bit. But I love …
03 May 2012
Drop Dead Healthy by AJ Jacobs
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
A.J. Jacobs likes to use his life, body, and family as a template for thoughtful experiments on a myriad of issues. His past two, bestselling books were The Know It …
30 April 2012
Joe Golem and The Drowning City
By Borah Coburn // Books
Ask yourself: Do you like action-packed, quick-moving stories? Do you like stories with multiple dimensions/universes and/or the occult? Do you like detectives? Do you like ghosts? Do you like comic …
30 April 2012
Project Gutenberg: Unadulterated Awesome
By Borah Coburn // Books
You know what I love? Books. You know what else I love? Free stuff. You know what my favorite things in the whole world are (other than harsher punishments for …
07 April 2012
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
By Borah Coburn // Books
This is one hell of a book. Saleem, the narrator, opens by telling us (in a stuttering, halting way—a stickler for perfect accuracy, that Saleem) when he was born, that …
28 March 2012
The Book Bucket List
By Borah Coburn // Books
Some people have Bucket Lists with life goals and similarly big-deal stuff on them. I’m… still sorting out the whole life goals thing, but I do know my Book Bucket …
20 March 2012
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World History
By Borah Coburn // Books
I’m not the biggest history buff in the world (not gonna lie, I rocked the heck out of AP Euro, but that was years ago, and didn’t, you know, cover …
16 March 2012
I LikeLike I Love You, Beth Cooper
By Borah Coburn // Books
I Love You, Beth Cooper is Larry Doyle’s first novel (he also wrote Go, Mutants!, the subject of my first review here at My Books). I Love You, Beth Cooper’s …
09 March 2012
Dawn Land—The Graphic Novel
By Borah Coburn // Books
I picked up Joe Bruchac and Will Davis’s graphic novel Dawn Land because (I’m about to get real with you) the cover is frickin’ gorgeous. It’s sunset/sunrise hued watercolors (plus, …
03 March 2012
The Story Within by Laura Oliver
By Borah Coburn // Books
The Story Within: New Insights and Inspiration for Writers, is Laura Oliver’s practical guide to writing. It deals with the act of writing, the business of being a writer, and …
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