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Armageddon in Retrospect 27 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut
Putnam Adult, 2008
Interesting Insight into Vonnegut's Mind
+ A Respectable Final Volume
Understandably, Vonnegut is highly anti-war/violence. He provides interesting points through his metaphorical stories. Vonnegut throws in several emotions, varying from humor to depression, most of which the stories are individually tailored to. Overall these were excellent stories and very thought ...
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The Memory of Water16 reviews
Karen White
NAL Trade, 2008
One of the best I have read this year...
+ Good Book, Good Summer Read!
+ wonderful book
+ The Memory of Water
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Undead and Unworthy (Queen Betsy, Book 7) 45 reviews
MaryJanice Davidson
Berkley Hardcover, 2008
Laugh out loud as always
+ Another Great Queen Betsy Novel
+ Not my favorite in this series
I Love the Undead series by Mary Janice Davidson. She is one of my top favorite authors I will turn to for a good laugh and entertaining story.
If you haven't read the earlier books in the series, I suggest you do. The first book in the series is, "Undead and Unwed".
In this book, Betsy is ...
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Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition) 156 reviews
Dorothy Allison
Plume, 2005
Great books that deal with real issues
+ Tragedy mixed with Misery
+ Parental Failure Seems not to Trump Childhood Innocence [33]
+ Awesome..
+ Heartbreaking and Brilliant
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Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self 89 reviews
Rebecca Walker
Riverhead Trade, 2002
Thoroughly Enjoyed
+ I sing praises for this book
I really enjoyed reading this book. Though I didn't have a lot of the same experiences growing up as Ms. Walker, except maybe that we were born the same year, I still found her story interesting. I'm white, with two Jewish parent's who are still married, but I found myself somehow relating to her ...
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The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant124 reviews
Dan Savage
Plume, 2000
Honest account
+ I want more!!
+ A Serious Comedy
+ My introduction to Dan Savage's mind...
+ This book is good...
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The Book of Dahlia: A Novel15 reviews
Elisa Albert
Free Press, 2008
Tears of both types...
+ Dahlia- Bewitching and Complex
+ Brave, bleak and bitter...keep 'em coming!
+ quite simply, exquisite
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Holy Smokes (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 4)27 reviews
Katie MacAlister
Signet, 2007
"Holy Smokes! That was Awesome"!
+ Still fun and entertaining
+ Holy Smokes
Aisling Grey, Guardian, Demon lord, Prince of Abbadon, and wyvern mate is finally going to be made an honest woman by Drake (her dragon "sweetie"). She will have to overcome a few things first, of course, since nothing is easy where she is concerned.
To start off the fun, the Red Sept has not ...
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Love in the Present Tense17 reviews
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Vintage, 2007
Love in the Present Tense
+ Sweetly Sentimental
+ Unexpected resolution
+ Ms. Hyde truly has a gift from God !
+ A forceful tale with a powerful message
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Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life Forms to Watch Out For 4 reviews
Alison Bechdel
Alyson Books, 2008
As always, Bechdel's got the Zeitgeist's pulse!
+ Funny, poignant and vividly real
+ FABULOUS!!!
+ Not just for dykes, feminists, and liberals!
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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father123 reviews
Augusten Burroughs
St. Martin's Press, 2008
All The Better To Break Your Spirit, Son
+ Sinister and Menacing
We've read much about the dysfunction of Augusten Burroughs's life, starting with his 2002 memoir "Running With Scissors" in which he described the bizarre experience of living with his mother's psychiatrist during the tumult of his adolescence. Though he briefly touched upon his parents' broken ...
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Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1)236 reviews
Kelley Armstrong
Plume, 2002
No candy hearts and fluffy bunnies
+ Must Read Fantasy
Armstrong bursts onto the writing scene with her first novel of The Women of the Otherworld series, "Bitten." In this werewolf-gone-bad story, the main character, Elena Michaels must face her past and herself if she is going to help stop a killer and protect those who care about her the most.
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Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum, No. 14)425 reviews
Janet Evanovich
St. Martin's Press, 2008
Another Plum
if you have been around teenagers and their world at all you will love Plum 14. The language the ideas the strange characters made for an enjoyable read. For those who didn't like it... come on... you don't buy Stephanee Plum books for substance. Tons of the usual laughs in this book
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Little Pink Slips39 reviews
Sally Koslow
Putnam Adult, 2007
Cannot Get Enough
+ If you have dreams of getting revenge at work...
+ Delightful summer reading
+ A Fun Summer Read
+ 3.5 Stars
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Curse of the Spellmans: A Novel39 reviews
Lisa Lutz
Simon & Schuster, 2008
A unique mystery!
+ Too many "footnotes"
+ A MUST READ
+ Love, love, love it!
+ Great fun and decidedly different storyline
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The Spellman Files: A Novel92 reviews
Lisa Lutz
Simon & Schuster, 2008
A fun and interesting read!
+ entertaining
+ Super Funny
+ It's a comedy more than a mystery
+ Funny in a wry way and so much fun to read
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Second Edition (Owlet Book)24 reviews
Gloria Steinem
Holt Paperbacks, 1995
Thank god for Gloria.
+ Alice Walker Is An Intelligent, Creative Force
+ Gloria Wrote Her Mother's Song To Enable & Encourage Other Daughters To Discover Their Mothers' Songs
+ Go Gloria!!
+ good book
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames252 reviews
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Sedaris Delivers a Hilarious Must-Have!
+ Not his best, but still fantastic
+ If you like Sedaris, you like Sedaris
+ Sedaris's best yet
+ Sedaris; Just what you expect.
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The Monsters of Templeton (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)62 reviews
Lauren Groff
Thorndike Press, 2008
Whimsy Abounds
+ Take Your Time
+ Monsters and Ghosts and Scandal, Oh My!
The Monsters of Templeton traces several weeks in the life of Willie Upton after she arrives in her small hometown unexpectedly, knocked up and disgraced. Shortly after her arrival, her mother drops a bomb on her: Willie's father is not who Willie thought it was, and her real father is closer than ...
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter873 reviews
Kim Edwards
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Freeze Frame
+ What a memory!!!
On a snowy winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced to deliver his twins and makes a split-second decision that forever alters theh lives of everyone involved. When it is apparent to him that his daughter has Down's Syndrome, he asks the nurse to take her to an institution, without telling ...
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