Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge. Black Swan Green is a year in the life of Jason Taylor, a thirteen-year-old growing up in a small Worcestershire village in the early 80s. I really enjoyed this book. It had a very different tone than the other book I’d read by this author (Cloud Atlas), though […]
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Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge Katie is unhappy in her marriage – not for any one reason, but for a million and one things that have built up over twenty years. Her husband is the self-professed “Angriest Man in Holloway”, and their life together has begun to wear on her. She’s even having
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Sixteen-year-old Sam’s life is going pretty well. School’s not bad, he’s actually starting to think about what he might want to do with his life, and he’s dating Alicia, a really cool and pretty girl who he wouldn’t have thought he had a chance with. And then she
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Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. Cloud Atlas has a little bit of story for everyone. There’s the 19th century clerk on a ship in the South Pacific, an early 20th century aspiring composer trying to worm his way into the home and life a musical genius, a reporter from the 1970s investigating
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This is a great book. Started out as a balcony read, which I kept reading late on my last night on vacation, and read in the airport and on the airplane, despite being under the effects of a nearly 12-hour sleep deficit. I couldn’t put it down. Set in Victorian times, this is the story
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Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. When 13-year-old Briony witnesses the flirtation between her older sister Cecelia, and Robbie, the son of their housekeeper, she thinks that by witnessing this act, she’s finally crossed over in the world of adulthood. Unfortunately, her lack of adult understanding of what she has seen causes her to commit
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Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. Apparently, at the tale end of WWII, there was a fleeting idea to allow Jewish refugees to settle in Alaska. It was indeed a fleeting footnote to history kind of idea, but Michael Chabon took it, ran with it, and the result is this book, an alternate history, Jewish,
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge. I had a sudden thought about half way through Austenland. What would Jane Austen think of the many books that have been written based upon or in homage to her books? I enjoyed Austenland. The story centers on Jane Hayes, a woman in her early thirties who has finally
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the story of Henry DeTamble, a man suffering from chrono-displacement, which means that he travels back and forth along the length of his life, never knowing where/when he’ll end up, and his wife Clare, who plods along the linear path of time. This was
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The Bestiary is the tale of Xeno Atlas, a boy who has always been surrounded by people with an affinity for animals, and who grows up and takes up the quest to find the Caravan Bestiary, a book that records the animals that Noah did not include on the ark. Xeno definitely doesn’t live a
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