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04-25-2011, 02:50 PM | #17 |
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Shockingly enough, the very last book I finished, if you don't count audiobooks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It was an absolutely gorgeous book. Ravishing, even. The title character is a Dutch clerk in 1799 Japan when the book opens and meets a Japanese midwife with a scarred face. It is even better than it sounds and the writer really did his homework, as far as I can tell. There are a lot of "you are there" details in this book.
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04-25-2011, 04:11 PM | #18 |
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Recently read "Water For Elephants" and "Unbroken" - I'd give both of them five stars.
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04-25-2011, 04:43 PM | #19 |
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For me, it was "Ender's Game". A classic by all accounts, one recommended to me countless times over the years, but never could dredge up the interest to read it. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down and I read the whole thing in one sitting.
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04-25-2011, 05:00 PM | #20 |
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Last 5-star I gave was to The Curse of the Wendigo, Rick Yancey. There are others I need to get around to posting reviews for since then, though.
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04-25-2011, 06:47 PM | #21 |
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04-25-2011, 08:36 PM | #22 |
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This is tough, because I read so many books I'd give 4 or 4.5 stars for but not 5, because I always find some aspect of the book that holds me back. For example, I just read Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honorable Defeat and it was great, but the ending was just too ruthlessly cruel to me. So it was yet another book I admire but not love.
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04-25-2011, 08:40 PM | #23 |
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I second the vote for "Unbroken" - I thought this book was superb.
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04-25-2011, 09:32 PM | #24 | |
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04-25-2011, 09:38 PM | #25 |
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In November I started reading a collection of Dashiell Hammett short stories called Lost Stories. I was so moved by one called The Dimple that I haven't been able to pick up that book since.
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04-25-2011, 09:49 PM | #26 |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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04-25-2011, 10:30 PM | #28 |
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04-25-2011, 10:55 PM | #29 |
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I just finished The Door to the Sky by David Michael and decided to give it 5 stars. My first 5 star rating for an independent author.
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04-25-2011, 10:58 PM | #30 |
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The Keep by Jennifer Egan
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