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I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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Author Archives: Thistle
Readathon: The Trouble With Destiny, by Lauren Morrill
Liza is determined. As the drum major for her band in a school where music funding is about to get severely cut, she needs to find a way to save the program. Enter the Destiny cruise, where high school performers … Continue reading
Sunday Coffee – All the Books
April was a crazy month for me in books. Most months, I read anywhere from four to six books. In April? I read twelve. And that doesn’t include the three re-listens to the early Raven Cycle books leading up to … Continue reading
Readathon: Folk Tales
During the Readathon, I read two collections of folk tales. The first, Nine Magic Pea-Hens, is a collection of 35 Serbian folk tales collected by Vuk Karadzic. The second, Alexander and the Golden Bird, is a set of 19 Danish … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Children's, Prose
Tagged classics, collection, humor, mini-review, readathon, speculative, translation, WTF moments
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Readathon: This is Where it Ends, by Marieke Nijkamp
In Opportunity, Alabama, Tyler Browne walks into his former high school on the first day of the spring semester. Most of the student population is in the auditorium for the welcome speech, and Tyler has locked everyone in. He has … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged LGBTQIA, POC, portentous, psychology, readathon
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Sunday Coffee – Spring Readathon Wrap-Up
Well, peeps, I made it. Sixteen hours of reading and bookstuff in the last 24 hours. Five books and 1123 pages. One hour of audio. Forty-five minutes of exercise. Six cups of coffee. Seven hours of sleep. Two very puffy, kinda leaky eyes. Yesterday’s post sums up … Continue reading
Readathon: April 2016
It’s here! Readathon time! This is my first full-on participation in Dewey’s 24-hour Readathon in YEARS and I’m very excited to be here. I checked myself into a hotel for the weekend (woohoo!) and I’m soaking up glorious alone time … Continue reading
A Drop of Night, by Stefan Bachmann
The doorways stretch ahead of us like a fun-house infinity mirror. Unfortunately, this is my second disappointing book in a row. Boo. It’s also the second book in a row that will be hard for me to review. Two reasons … Continue reading
The Madwoman Upstairs, by Catherine Lowell (audio)
Samantha Whipple is one of the last surviving members of the Bronte descendants, and as such, receives a lot of unwanted attention as she begins her first year at Oxford. Between a bullying tutor, a snooping journalist, a grotesque room … Continue reading
