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Stop Making Sense

I read anything that's nailed down, or even just moving slowly. Cereal boxes, candy wrappers, all genres, etc., and I don't always have much time for arbitrary distinctions like literary fiction vs. genre fiction.

325 BOOKS

Favorite books

World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters

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The First Century After Beatrice - Amin Maalouf

The Dewey Decimal System (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) - Nathan Larson

A Dark Anatomy - Robin Blake

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July 2015

13

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The First Century After Beatrice - Amin Maalouf

reviewed: Swing and a Miss

This book isn't written as a typical novel...there is no growth or character arc for the narrator, a scientist who is writing...

The First Century After Beatrice - Amin Maalouf

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The Dewey Decimal System (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) - Nathan Larson

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Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer

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The First Century After Beatrice - Amin Maalouf

The First Century After Beatrice Amin Maalouf

July 2015

8

finished reading:

The Dewey Decimal System (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) - Nathan Larson

The Dewey Decimal System (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) Nathan Larson

July 2015

4

finished reading:

Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer

Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

June 2015

11

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A Dark Anatomy - Robin Blake

reviewed: A Georgian Columbo...

It's not often you read a murder mystery set in 1740s England. This should have been right up my Anglophile alley, but it jus...

A Dark Anatomy - Robin Blake

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A Dark Anatomy - Robin Blake

A Dark Anatomy Robin Blake

May 2015

26

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84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff

reviewed: West vs. East in Letters

84, Charing Cross Road is a slim collection of letters sent between Helene Hanff, a New Yorker working on the Ellery Queen TV...

84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff

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84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff

May 2015

22

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World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters

reviewed: It's the End of the World as We Know It, and...

The third book in this preapocalypic trilogy finds Hank searching for his estranged sister Nico, so he can make amends before...

World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters

May 2015

21

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World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters

World of Trouble Ben H. Winters

May 2015

15

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Three Parts Dead - Max Gladstone

reviewed: An Urban Fantasy/Mystery/Legal Thriller Mashup, with Humans, Vampires, and Gargoyles (whew)

There's a LOT going on in this debut novel, and some of it is pulled off better than other stuff.Pluses:--kick-ass protagonis...

Three Parts Dead - Max Gladstone

May 2015

14

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Three Parts Dead - Max Gladstone

Three Parts Dead Max Gladstone

April 2015

24

reviewed: Mismarketing of a Decent Book

This is the story--told in alternating, first-person chapters--of Meena and Mariama, who are heading toward each other but se...

The Girl in the Road - Monica Byrne

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The Girl in the Road - Monica Byrne

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The Girl in the Road - Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road Monica Byrne

April 2015

21

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The Girl in the Road - Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road Monica Byrne

April 2015

07

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Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier, Sally Beauman

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