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April
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David Anthony Durham
Colson Whitehead
Jeff VanderMeer
David Foster Wallace
March2015
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So, I'm going to admit right off the bat that I only read this because I hate Jamie McGuire's writing. When I was researching...
August2014
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~~MOVED FROM GR~~ Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (Translated by Andrew Bromfield) "You find life such a problem because ...
August2014
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One time, when I went up to San Francisco with a friend, we were walking down Market Street when we were accosted by a man wi...
July2014
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~~Moved from GR~~ Moon Called (Mercy Thompson #1) by Patricia Briggs Despite a ton of recommendations to try this, I've b...
July2014
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[reblogged from 38 Caliber Reviews] What am I worth? What are authors worth? Honest reviews. I know that for some peopl...
July2014
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Please enjoy “Polynia,” a Tor.com Original short story by acclaimed author China Miéville. When the narrator was a boy, cold ...
July2014
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We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory I encounter quite a lot of episodic hardboiled urban fantasy, and one constant ...
June2014
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Today we had to go to the vet. Our tabby Micki, who has been almost deaf for more than a year, suddenly showed a loss of visi...
June2014
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Football/Soccer/Fussball, Anybody? I am not a big soccer fan, but it is some kind of tradition to watch the World and Europ...
June2014
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Seventeen year old Kestrel, the general’s daughter, buys an attractive slave at an auction and grows attracted to him. The sl...
June2014
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I don't pay attention to the sniping of Politicians in my country. None of them ever achieve anything worthwhile once in powe...
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Reading a debate about the World Cup in Brasil in a Facebook page for cinephiles, I had the occasion for remembering how much...
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bookshelves: history, hardback, published-2002, stuarts, restoration, civil-war-english, biography, books-about-books-and-bo...
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I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, thank you! Both the ...
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"The campaign for Dreyfus's final exoneration gathered pace in 1903 because it became linked to a partisan and bitter crusade...

Currently reading

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood by Oliver Bowden
Acacia: The War with the Mein by David Anthony Durham
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace