Humanity has been taken over by a race called the Souls – parasites that insert themselves into a human’s body, and then live their lives. The original memories of the body are intact, but the person is gone. The Souls have been on Earth for a while, so there are very few ‘wild’ humans left. […]
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Giannine received a gift certificate for her birthday to the local virtual reality video game center. When she got there, there were protesters outside – something about exposing minors to too much violence. She ran through the crowd anyway, and picked the game Heir Apparent. And just when the game was starting to get somewhere,
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Now, I’ve decided to mostly opt of out reading challenges this year, but I still do have a project in mind. The above is what I’ve labelled as the Tote of Shame in my LibraryThing catalog, because it used to be a tote, but I outgrew that early last year. This is a pretty deep
I’ve been away from Pern for a while – it was one of my favorite series when I was a teenager, and I’d left off with The Dolphins of Pern – where Thread was seemingly eradicated, and Pern was learning to live with that reality. It seemed a natural enough stopping point, but there were
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Much like the cookbook I just read, I don’t normally read knitting books all the way through. This is also one of the few authors that I will automatically get her next book, even if I haven’t previewed it first. The first part of this book breaks down exactly why socks are different than many
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I don’t usually make a habit of reading cookbooks. I also don’t normally run out and buy (or in this case request for Christmas) cookbooks sight unseen, even if I do have other books by that author. I will make an exception for Melissa Clark’s books. I really enjoyed In the Kitchen with a Good
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In an alternate London sometime in the 19th century (I think), Kim lives on the streets. When an obviously well to do man offers her five pounds to break into a traveling magician’s wagon and just look around, she can’t say no to such easy money. But, when she’s caught in the act because of
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This year wasn’t too bad for books I started but wasn’t able to finish – just two: 1. Colours in the Steel- K.J. ParkerI was five chapters into this book when I gave it up. There was nothing inherently bad about it, I just couldn’t get myself interested.The premise is interesting enough – a city
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83. Paris, My Sweet – Amy Thomas82. The Midwife’s Apprentice – Karen Cushman81. Pretties – Scott Westerfeld80. Black Powder War – Naomi Novik79. Memory & Dream – Charles de Lint78. Lady of Quality – Georgette Heyer77. The Book Lover’s Cookbook – Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen76. The Two Princesses of Bamarre – Gail
Read for LibraryThing EarlyReviewers. Do not read this book on an empty stomach. The author was given the chance of a lifetime when her advertising agency offered to send her to the Paris branch to work on the Louis Vuitton contract. She’d been pretty much obsessed with Paris since she spent a semester there in
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