Tag: books
member name: Elizabeth V.
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May 31, 2008 07:43 PM EDT --
I recommend only books that I found not-put-downable, and I recommend What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman. This book came with me to the dinner table, and I didn't put it down to go to sleep but fell . . .
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July 10, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
1. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Polish Catholic zookeepers hide Jews.
2. The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory Cat ownership is funny but precious.
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July 06, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET , Jamie Ford’s first book, tells the touching story of Henry Lee, a Chinese-American, and his childhood friendship with and ongoing love for Keiko . . .
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August 12, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
I, like most people who like to read, keep a long list of books I want to read, and I add to it frequently. So it's a long list. Therefore, I don't like to waste time on a lousy book. If I read . . .
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July 23, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
IN THE WOODS by Tana French is a novel about the investigation into the death of a child. But it is more complex than that; much more is going on with the people involved.
A . . .
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June 21, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
ONE GOOD TURN by Kate Atkinson begins with a road rage incident involving one crazy guy beating a man with a baseball bat and another man, a wimpy writer of popular crime novels, knocking the crazy . . .
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June 27, 2009 09:10 PM EDT --
The first half of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO presents two separate lives in Sweden: Mikael Blomkvist, a 40-something journalist convicted of libel, and Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old . . .
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July 30, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
To me, the term “horror novel” gives a book a bad rap. I think it gives the impression that the book is trashy and poorly written. But amidst all the trashy and poorly written horror novels . . .
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May 14, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
Everyone likes a not-put-downable book, the kind that keeps them up at night, the kind they even bring to the dinner table. Harlan Coben's novels are like that. The first of his that I read, No Second . . .
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May 28, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
If I don't like a book, I don't read another by the same author--usually. But I read Oblivion by Peter Abrahams even though I had disliked another of his books, The Fan . It was a good decision. . . .
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June 09, 2009 06:49 AM EDT --
A 13-year-old boy, Johnny, and his friend, Jack, search for Johnny's twin sister, Alyssa, a year after she has gone missing, after everyone else, it seems, has given up. "It seems" because the case . . .
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June 13, 2009 07:32 PM EDT --
Martin Cruz Smith is a new author for me, and I didn't realize that HAVANA BAY is part of a series of books about a Russian prosecutor's investigator, Renko Arkady. The series begins with the book . . .
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June 17, 2009 08:48 AM EDT --
Michael Connelly's latest book, THE SCARECROW , involves a soon-to-be-laid-off long-time LA Times reporter Jack McEvoy, who decides to "go out with a bang" by writing an investigative story . . .
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July 29, 2009 06:01 PM EDT --
Lisa Scottoline’s COURTING TROUBLE is a novel she wrote back in 2002, a continuation of her series about an all-female law firm. It had seemed to me that Scottoline likes to present legal . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Lisa Gardner’s SAY GOODBYE begins with a sex scene between a slutty girl and a high school football star. You’re safe in assuming that Chapter 1 and the next several chapters aren’t . . .
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October 25, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
Entertainment Weekly announced last June their picks of the best books in the last 25 years. I missed it. Today, though, I learned of it when I was at the library and noticed their display of many . . .
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July 12, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
I read State of Fear by Michael Chrichton last year. Because I thought it was ridiculous that the main characters had so many life-threatening advertures in a single day, I would have donated the book . . .
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September 06, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
Unto the Daughters by Karen Tintori is nonfiction. Tintori looks into her ancestors' past, beginning with her great grandparents and great aunts and uncles in Sicily around 1900. Eventually they all . . .
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March 27, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
I've had Hush Money by Robert B. Parker laying around unread for a year or so. I never read anything by Parker because I've seen so many of his books it seemed to me that he just spit them . . .
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May 23, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Last year I read half of one of the most boring books I ever read, COMPANY MAN by Joseph Finder. Yet that same author wrote THE MOSCOW CLUB , which is great and the reason I decided to read another . . .
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