Category Archives: Prose

Oddly Normal, by John Schwartz (audio)

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Thistle

Subtitled: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality. This is a memoir about the author’s gay son, his suicide attempt at age thirteen, and the general troubles that gay people – especially gay … Continue reading →

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City of Lost Dreams, by Magnus Flyte

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Thistle

Spoilers. The adventures continue for Sarah et al, as they search out a cure for Pollina’s illness, and Nico searches out some way to end his immortality. The book takes place mostly in Vienna this time, but with forays into … Continue reading →

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Protected: To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway (audio)

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Thistle

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Protected: The Dark Between, by Sonia Gensler

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Thistle

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Cooked, by Michael Pollan (audio)

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Thistle

Took me forever to listen to this one because I did it over NaNoWriMo! This is Michael Pollan’s nonfiction book about cooking – the origins, the methods, etc. It’s split into four parts roughly coordinating with the four elements, so … Continue reading →

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Kid Cyclone Fights the Devil, by Xavier Garza

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Thistle

This is a collection of folktales and creepy children’s stories out of Mexico (and out of Mexican-American communities in southern Texas). There are 14 stories in the collection, which is a bilingual collection – Spanish one direction for half the … Continue reading →

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Perfect Ruin, by Lauren Destefano

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Thistle

Major spoilers. Young adult fantasy dystopia. Morgan lives on Internment, a floating city in the sky. Everything there is rigidly controlled, but relatively peaceful. The only problem is the Edge, which lures people to it, and often they’ll jump. Jumping … Continue reading →

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Bang, by Lisa McMann

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Thistle

It’s Sawyer’s turn for visions, and Jules (and her brother Trey, and later her sister Ro) have to help him prevent a disaster: a anti-gay school shooting at a nearby university. Not much to say about this book. I liked … Continue reading →

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More Than This, by Patrick Ness

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Thistle

Major spoilers. Seth dies. He remembers dying, but then he wakes up in a strange place that’s sort of familiar, but also not. The world seems to be dead and empty, and he wonders if this is his own personal … Continue reading →

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Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (audio)

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Thistle

Charles Nancy aka Fat Charlie has always lived in the shadow of his father, and is relieved when his father dies. Then, at the funeral, he’s told that his father was a god, and that he has a brother named … Continue reading →

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