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Monthly Archives: April 2013
The Year of the Hare
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 1975 / 194 pages rating: 9.0 One day whilst on vacation a middle-aged man named Kaarlo Vaatenen and his photographer buddy (who was driving) ran over a hare in the road. The … Continue reading
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Black Fridays
Black Fridays by Michael Sears 2012 / 352 pages read by Erik Bergmann 11h 1m Rating: A- This great book has a couple of major problems and that’s really a shame because there is so much to enjoy. Jason Stafford … Continue reading
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Angel
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor 2012 by NYRB Classics 272 pages / orig. 1957 Rating: 9 Although Angel is an interesting book, I was somewhat disappointed because I really enjoyed Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont and had read that this was Taylor’s best work … Continue reading
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The New Digital Age:
The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen 2013/336 pages read by Roger Wayne 10h 48m Rating: 8.5 This book is not about the future of gadgetry – although there is a bit … Continue reading
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Canada
Canada by Richard Ford 2012 / 432 pages rating: 8 “FIRST, I’LL TELL ABOUT THE ROBBERY OUR PARENTS committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.” (Kindle Locations 122-124) Now if that’s not enough to hook a reader of fiction … Continue reading
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 1944 / 432 pages read by Jeremy Irons 11h. 33m. rating: (cs) How did I ever miss (or avoid) this? I not only missed the book but I missed all the movies and mini-series and … Continue reading
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Learning to Swim
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry 2011 / 304 pages read by Suzanne Torin 11h 1m rating: A+ This was highly recommended so always in search of a juicy crime novel (procedural, cozy, legal, whatever) I listened to and … Continue reading
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House of Earth
House of Earth by Woodie Guthrie 2013 (written in 1947) 288 pages read by Will Patton 6h 36m rating: 8.5 A long introduction written by Johnny Depp and Douglas Brinkley (also read by them) prefaces the actual novel. It’s an … Continue reading
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The Dead
The Dead by James Joyce 1914? / 40 pages rating 10 (reread) Another group chose this for their reading selection and although I wasn’t going to reread it I got tempted and pulled Dubliners off the shelf and started in. … Continue reading
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Suspect
Suspect by Robert Crais 2012 / 320 pages read by MacLeod Andrews 8h 30m rating: C- I think Crais wrote this one as an honorarium to the Canine units and their dogs – just the way it feels at about … Continue reading
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The Mercy Rule
The Mercy Rule (#5 of Dismas Hardy) by John Lescroart 1998 – 640 pages read by David Colacci 18h 3m rating – B+ I was smitten by the reviews of another group member and wanted to get back to the Dismas … Continue reading
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The Falls
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates 2004 / 481 pages rating: 7.5 I’ve not read a whole lot in the oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates – she’s so prolific and what few I have read have not really totally satisfied. Don’t get … Continue reading
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Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 1895 / Kindle – 455 pages rating: 9 I think I’ve mentioned before that one reason I enjoy classics is because they give an historical peek into the era in which they were written. … Continue reading
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Anil’s Ghost
Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje 2000 / 303 pgs (Kindle) Rating: 8 I usually totally enjoy Michael Ondaatje‘s work – especially Divisadero and Cat’s Table, but The English Patient was also quite good. Imo, he seems to have been improving as he’s … Continue reading
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The Cruelest Month
The Cruelest Month (Det. Garmache #4) by Louise Penny 2008 / 320 pages Read by Ralph Cosham – 11h 46m Rating: B+ Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Three Pines in the Province of Quebec, is called on to investigate death … Continue reading
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Narcopolis
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil 2012 / 288 pgs ( Kindle) rating: 8.5 This book started out so lovely, so real, so refreshing. I’d say the first half was like that. Then, probably like the addicts themselves, it just went downhill … Continue reading
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The Stonecutter
The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg 2005 (US 2013 / 528 pgs read by David Thorn 16h 58m Scandi-crime Rating: A- A Fjällbacka lobster fisherman has hauled in a rather different catch – a small girl child – dead. He notifies the … Continue reading
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