Category Archives: Adult

Little Children, by Tom Perrotta

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Thistle

Sarah doesn’t fit in. She takes her daughter to the playground near her home in an upper-middle class suburb, but she knows she’s different from the other moms there. While they talk about fatigue, sex, and their daily schedules, conversation … Continue reading →

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And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Thistle

Ten strangers with guilty consciences are invited for different reasons out to Indian Island. They don’t expect to be suddenly called out on their crimes, or to begin dying off one by one. Now they’re in a race against time, … Continue reading →

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Protected: Sundays at Tiffany’s, by James Patterson

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Thistle

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The Untelling, by Tayari Jones

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Thistle

When Aria was a child, her family was ripped apart by a car accident that killed her father and baby sister. The rest of her adolescence was spent with an older sister who just wanted to get away and a … Continue reading →

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An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Thistle

Because I was so sad that The Importance of Being Earnest ended so quickly, I dove right into a second play of Wilde’s that I hadn’t even planned to read right away. An Ideal Husband was different. It had less … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Thistle

I’m not even going to try to describe the plot of this play. It’s a three-act comedy full of mix-ups, mistaken identities, and romance. Absolutely delightful. I laughed and smiled all through it. The only Oscar Wilde I’ve ever read … Continue reading →

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The Explorer, by William Somerset Maugham

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Thistle

Lucy Allerton alone knows that her father’s ridiculousness is leading her family to lose everything they own. Her mother died when she was fifteen, and there is only Lucy, her father, and her younger brother George left to the Allertons. … Continue reading →

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Readathon: French Milk, by Lucy Knisley

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Thistle

Quick Summary: This is a memoir/diary/travelogue of the month Lucy Knisley and her mother spent in Paris. They rented an apartment and spent a month seeing the sights, eating French food, and generally getting to know themselves better. It’s also … Continue reading →

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The Book of Flying, by Keith Miller

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Thistle

Pico lives in a city by the sea, an orphan, the wingless son of two winged parents. He makes a home in the unused library and falls in love with a winged girl. In order to make himself fit to … Continue reading →

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Selected Poems, by Marina Tsvetaeva

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Thistle

This book is a selection of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems translated from the Russian. The poems cross a 25-year period, from about 1915 to about 1940. As I’ve said before, I am not a very good judge of poetry. I dislike … Continue reading →

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