Archive for the ‘10’ Category
#57 – All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Fiction Read from 12/18/06 – 12/22/06 My grade: 10 Oh my God, yes! I love this author and his style so much. It’s like noir plus poetry plus cowboys. I’m looking forward to the next part of this trilogy (in the To Be Read pile as we speak). This [...]
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#46 – No god but God
No god but God Reza Aslan Non-Fiction Read from 10/22/06 – 10/27/06 My grade: 10 Wow, I didn’t know anything about Islam – I guess that’s what happens when your world religions teacher is Mrs. Cranshaw, who came over on the Mayflower. I am comforted by Aslan’s thesis – that we’re watching an Islamic reformation, [...]
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#43 – The Mauritius Command
The Mauritius Command Patrick O’Brian Fiction Read from 9/27/06 – 10/2/06 My grade: 10 Old friends! Here’s what I love about Patrick O’Brian – he’s such a great writer. Gladwell said something recently about being judged on degree of difficulty. I think what O’Brian does is tremendously difficult. The British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars? [...]
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#37 – Michael Martone
Michael Martone Michael Martone Fiction Read from 8/22 – 8/24 My Grade: 10 So great! I read about this on the Lit Blog Cooperative (their summer 06 rec). I enjoyed it immensely. It’s just contributor’s notes, about 40 of them, each one providing a note from the writer of the rest of them (it’s the [...]
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#34 – Hey Nostadamus!
Hey Nostradamus! Douglas Coupland Fiction 7/18 – 8/2 My Grade: 10 The first of two Doppleganger recommendations. Deeply intense, right from the start. I loved the four viewpoint structure, and it served the story perfectly. Great book. I liked the questions it asked about violence and religion. I thought the figure on the front was [...]
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#32 – No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarty Fiction Read from 7/19 – 7/21 My Grade: 10 This is when I realized I’d spend about a month thinking about dragons and reading non-fiction, both of which are very uncharacteristic. So I returned to my roots – stuff that just came out in trade and which looks [...]
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#31 – Black Powder War
Black Powder War Naomi Novik Scifi / Fantasy Read from 7/11 – 7/13 My Grade: 10 Delicious! I want a dragon. I don’t care if this makes me a 15 year old underweight chess loving nerd. I want a dragon. Screw you. So many nice things showed up in this book – new fire-breathing dragon! [...]
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#28 – Throne of Jade
Throne of Jade Naomi Novik Scifi / Fantasy 6/29 – 7/1 My Grade: 10 China + Dragons + Novik = AWESOME. I can’t get over how much I like these books. Even knowing the depths of my own geekiness more than anyone else, I’m still surprised. I enjoyed the contrasted treatment of the dragons in [...]
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#26 – His Majesty’s Dragon
His Majesty’s Dragon Naomi Novik Sci-fi / Fantasy Read 6/22 My grade: 10 Shut up, this book was spectacular.
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#24 – Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin Non-Fiction Read from 6/14 – 6/19 My grade: 10 Exactly what I was looking for.
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#19 – L.A. Requiem
L.A. Requiem Robert Crais Detective Read from 5/11 – 5/15 My grade: 10 Pike’s second (second!) escape from LAPD custody. My love is boundless.
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#18 – Free Fall
Free Fall Robert Crais Detective Read from 5/9-5/11 My grade: 10 Heart.
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#14 – Knitting Rules!
Knitting Rules!Stephanie Pearl-McPheeKnitting4/10/06 – 4/11/06My grade: 10 Disclaimer: I am totally lame. I know it, and you probably know it, so let’s just move on. Here is the sound I made when this book was delivered: "eeeeee!!!!" It’s written by a knitting blogger I read daily, here. I heart her and I heart knitting, and [...]
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#13 – A Horse and His Boy
A Horse and His BoyC.S. LewisChildren’s Lit3/25/06 – 3/26/06My grade: 10 I read this a while ago and completely forgot about it. This is the third book in the Chronicles of Narnia, and it’s not really about Narnia at all, but rather about a boy and a horse from another country south of Narnia. (Has [...]
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