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March
12
2013
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2013
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reviewed: The New World (Chaos Walking, #0.5)
There are three bonus Chaos Walking stories, and The New World is the only one that's available on Amazon. It's also the firs...
The New World (Chaos Walking, #0.5) - Patrick Ness
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2013
14
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I picked this up because: pretty cover, SoulPancake name recognition, Rainn Wilson. The intro was promising, and I got excite...
SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions - 'Rainn Wilson',  'Devon Gundry',  'Golriz Lucina',  'Shabnam Mogharabi'
finished reading:
2013
19
reviewed: Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3)
The fact that I am done with this series makes me so, so sad. I found three companion pieces Ness has made available; maybe t...
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3) - Patrick Ness
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2013
13
finished reading:
2013
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2013
27
reviewed: Divergent (Divergent #1)
It turns out I'm not a huge fan of Roth's writing, although it's not offensively bad or anything like that, and I found the w...
Divergent (Divergent #1) - Veronica Roth
finished reading:
2013
22
reviewed: The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns, #2)
Once again: not objective. The books that make up the "Fire and Thorns" series would be filed away on a bookshelf called "KAR...
The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns, #2) - Rae Carson
finished reading:
2013
18
reviewed:
This is not an objective review, AT ALL. The Girl of Fire and Thorns reminded me a lot of the YA Christian romance/fantasy bo...
The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson
finished reading:
2013
11
reviewed:
The feelings All That Is generated in me are similar to my feelings toward my least favorite of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels....
All That Is - James Salter
finished reading:
2013
30
finished reading:
2013
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finished reading:
2013
19
reviewed: How To Be a Woman
Reading How To Be a Woman was a strange experience. I could have done without the first quarter of the book, and the rest of ...
How To Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
finished reading:
2013
13
reviewed: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
I needed something fluffy. Let's Pretend This Never Happened is VERY fluffy, full of stories about Lawson's stranger life exp...
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir) - Jenny  Lawson
finished reading:
2013
30
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Aristotle and Dante isn't my usual thing -- I lean more toward supernatural/fantasy YA, or coming-of-age stories with female ...
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
finished reading:
2013
27
reviewed:
The Diviners has great spooky atmosphere, some fab characters, and a giant hook of a story. Bray goes a little overboard with...
The Diviners - Libba Bray
finished reading:
2013
18
reviewed:
Oh, I waited too long to review this. I don't remember why I didn't like Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk more . . . it's an i...
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain
finished reading:
2013
8
finished reading:
2013
05
reviewed:
I wrote this long review of Love Wins then set the review aside for a weekend. When I came back, I realized I had basically w...
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, And The Fate Of Every Person - Rob Bell
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Although I'm not a Young House Love (the blog) reader, I enjoyed rummaging through Young House Love (the book). It has a lot ...
Young House Love: 243 Ways to Paint, Craft, Update & Show Your Home Some Love - Sherry Petersik, John Petersik
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