Friday, January 16th, 2009
I continue to struggle to find the time to review all the books I read. However, I decided to start over again with a blank slate.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach: I’m not a forensics enthusiast so I hadn’t read Roach’s Stiff despite it being highly recommended to me [...]
The following books were read from January to March 2006.
Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding: I’ve seen Bridget Jones referenced obliquely so many times—in magazine articles, in the Very Secret Diaries, in passing conversations—that reading the actual book was somewhat of an anticlimax. I suppose it also didn’t help that I had watched the movie [...]
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Also tagged arturo pérez-reverte, caroline stevermer, chick lit, diana wynne jones, fantasy, french, helen fielding, historical fiction, kate ross, literary fiction, mystery, patricia c. wrede, postnapoleonic, richard howard, sonia soto, spanish, stendhal, translation, western canon, young adult
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
The following books were read in December 2005.
Cut to the Quick, by Kate Ross: The first of the Julian Kestrel mysteries featuring a Regency dandy as the detective. When you hear such a premise, the sort of protagonist brought to mind is a flippant, well-dressed wit whose trivial façade hides a sharp intellect. In a [...]
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Also tagged italian, italo calvino, kate ross, literary fiction, mystery, postmodern, science fiction, short stories, translation, umberto eco, ursula k. le guin, william weaver
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