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12 May 2012

The Coincidence Engine Troubles

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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 …

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10 May 2012

Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko

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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 …

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08 May 2012

The Rook by Daniel O’Malle

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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 …

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06 May 2012

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

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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 …

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04 May 2012

Et In Arcadia Ego

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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 …

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03 May 2012

Drop Dead Healthy by AJ Jacobs

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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 …

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30 April 2012

Joe Golem and The Drowning City

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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 …

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30 April 2012

Project Gutenberg: Unadulterated Awesome

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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 …

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07 April 2012

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

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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 …

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28 March 2012

The Book Bucket List

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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 …

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20 March 2012

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World History

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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 …

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16 March 2012

I LikeLike I Love You, Beth Cooper

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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 …

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09 March 2012

Dawn Land—The Graphic Novel

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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, …

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03 March 2012

The Story Within by Laura Oliver

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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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