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Reading Log 2011
I've counted up the reviews I've posted between 12/1/2010 and 11/30/11, and here are the results...
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City of Bones
For the most part I found City of Bones absorbing, yet predictable. There's one surprise I didn't see coming but should have, though. The protagonist, Clary, turns 16 during the course of the novel. I hope she catches onto things quicker as the series progresses and she gets older.
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Dec 17 2011
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978-1-4169-5507-8
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Mountain of Crumbs, a
Gorokhova writes about growing up in 1960s and 70s Leningrad. I'd been curious about life in the USSR, and this memoir was exactly what I was looking for. She's a good writer, especially in her non-native but just as good English.
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Dec 11 2011
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978-1-4391-3558-7
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lesbian genre fiction
Barnard is expanding its lesbian fiction collection (let me know if you want a copy of the article) to include lesbian genre fiction. Please share favorite titles, authors, series, publishers and awards to make my collection development work easier.
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Influencing Machine, the
It seems like no one remembers or gives credit to the For Beginners series. Gladstone acts like no one has done a graphic history/politics book before, like this was some crazy new idea she hatched. Clearly I'm a little annoyed at that, but I started off liking the book plenty. The first page I dog-eared to quote says this "The American media are not afraid of the government. They are afraid of their audiences and advertisers. The media do not control you. They pander to you."
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Dec 6 2011
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978-0-393-07779-7
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River Marked
The Mercedes Thompson series may have joined the paranormal romance genre as Mercy joined with Alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman and took his name. Ugh. Really? I know there are lots of good reasons women take their husbands names, and I don't mean to diss them, but I just don't see this bad ass coyote shapeshifter auto mechanic having a drive to do so. Plus she's part American Indian, and aren't most tribes matrilineal?
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Nov 30 2011
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978-0-441-01973-1
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LC, how about some Critical Mass?
UPDATE: I WAS WRONG. See the comments.
Don't you wish the Library of Congress had a subject heading for Critical Mass (the nearly 20-year-old internationally celebrated monthly bike ride)? Me, too!
So I wrote to the Library of Congress...
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Silver Borne
Our coyote shapeshifter is out of the love triangle business and head over heels over her alpha mate. Unfortunately his pack isn't quite as gaga over her. As usual some fae are gunning for her. I know my description makes the book sound silly, but it is actually one of my favorite installments the Mercy Thompson series.
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Nov 22 2011
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978-0-441-01819-2