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Review: Solar Bones
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Whoof.What a book.I picked it up with both dread at the prospect of reading a gimmicky one sentence long book and hope that it would turn out...
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Review: A Wild Sheep Chase
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fun romp. A bit of mysticism and magic, kind of angry sheep, and a journey to the ends of the world (or Japan, anyway). View...
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Review: The Informer
The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a good story, mired in a heck of a lot of bilious, overwrought, sometimes plodding adjectives.But entertaining with a few little funny...
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Review: Solar Bones
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Whoof.What a book.I picked it up with both dread at the prospect of reading a gimmicky one sentence long book and hope that it would turn out...
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Review: Little Bones
Little Bones by Sam Blake My rating: 2 of 5 stars I thought this story was fine, I liked the plot and the writing in general was good.I was worn down by the narrative voice , though. We’re inside the...
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Review: The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man
The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man by W. Bruce Cameron My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was way more fun than I’d expected. He tells a great, wacky story with some excellent characters.I think I had...
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Review: Lady Gregory’s Complete Irish Mythology
Lady Gregory’s Complete Irish Mythology by Lady Augusta Gregory My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good stuff. Not your straightforward, easily untangleable mythology like the Greeks with a pantheon of gods...
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Review: Ithaca
Ithaca by Alan McMonagle My rating: 3 of 5 stars The writing in this book was excellent. The subject matter, a boy all but abandoned in crash-depressed Ireland, is grim with the odd light moment. But...
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Review: The Sudden Appearance of Hope
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love the things Claire North comes up with. Time travel via being re-born again and again, a person who can shift from person to...
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Review: Tethered
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amy McKinnon tells a great story. This was so well-written, so well-told. Yes, it lays heavy into the symbolism of flowers, but her characters are...
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Review: This Book Is From The Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity,...
This Book Is From The Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes, and Other Adventures in Time Travel by Marie D. Jones My rating: 1 of 5 stars For a book about time travel, it’s got a...
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Review: The Brief History of the Dead
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier My rating: 2 of 5 stars This started with such promise: I loved the premise and the first few chapters. The episodes in the real world, where the...
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Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thought the faux folksy personal narrator of this book would grate on me for an entire novel, but I wound up really liking this...
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Review: Irish Myths and Legends
Irish Myths and Legends by Lady Augusta Gregory My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good stuff. Not your straightforward, easily untangleable mythology like the Greeks with a pantheon of gods gathering in the one...
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Review: The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam My rating: 4 of 5 stars A good read about the bonds between teammates and a look back at those Sox from the “good old days” (though the...
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Review: The Readymade Thief
The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received an advance reader copy of this book through Penguin’s First to Read program.I really, really enjoyed this book. I thought the...
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Review: The Trial
The Trial by Franz Kafka My rating: 2 of 5 stars Look, it’s a classic. It’s not the most scintillating read, and I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read it when I was a 20 year old English...
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Review: Reincarnation Blues
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore My rating: 5 of 5 stars I received a copy of this book from NetGalley.Resurrection Blues blew my socks off. It blew them off, chewed them up, spat them out, and...
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