Category Archives: Adult

Readathon: Chicken With Plums, by Marjane Satrapi

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Thistle

In Chicken With Plums, Satrapi writes a biography of her great-uncle, the famous Iranian musician Nassar Ali Khan. When Khan’s tar breaks, he falls into a depression and lays in bed wishing for death for a week. At the end … Continue reading →

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Readathon: Britten and Brulightly, by Hannah Berry

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Thistle

What a strange, strange book. Fern Britten is a private detective and works alongside a slightly lewd and quite unusual partner, Stewart Brulightly. Most of their work deals with marital problems until the day Brulightly suggests they only accept more … Continue reading →

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Readathon: The Professor’s Daughter, by Joan Sfar

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Thistle

Hm. Well. This is a graphic novel love story between a professor’s daughter and that same professor’s ancient mummy. One day, the woman, Lillian, lets the mummy, Imhotep IV, out of his case, and the two go off for a … Continue reading →

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Protected: In a Perfect World, by Laura Kasischke

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Thistle

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Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Thistle

When the unnamed narrator of this story meets Maxim de Winter, whose wife drowned and left him a widower a year previously, she doesn’t imagine that he will ask her to marry him and take her back to his home, … Continue reading →

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A Passage to India, by EM Forster

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Thistle

This is such a difficult book to describe. It’s a sketch of the conflict between India and Britain, both in the overarching Britain-is-policing-India sort of way, and in a specific-individual sort of way. The two parallel each other. The main … Continue reading →

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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Thistle

Fahrenheit 451 is the ultimate banned book – a book about banning books to the degree of burning any that are discovered, as well as the house of the owner who concealed them. Firemen in this dystopian world don’t mess … Continue reading →

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Time of My Life, by Allison Winn Scotch

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Thistle

Spoilers. Jillian has the seemingly perfect suburban life with a supportive husband and a cute toddler that she gets to stay home with. But underneath the facade, she’s dying. Slowly withering away trying to keep up the perfect-wife-and-mother act. She … Continue reading →

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Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Thistle

[joint review and recipe by my husband and me] Recipe: Gignac Tiramisu Ingredients: 24 Milano cookies, 5 egg yolks, 1/3 C sugar, 1/2 C heavy cream, 2 tsp REAL vanilla (no extract!), 14 oz cream cheese, 3/4 C espresso Jason: So… … Continue reading →

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The Dead Days of Summer, by Carolyn Hart

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Thistle

Dead Days of Summer is actually the 17th book in the Death on Demand series. Annie Darling runs a mystery book shop called Death on Demand, and apparently gets involved in mysteries time and time again. In this particular book, … Continue reading →

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