The list for the 2012 Tournament of Books was just announced on Facebook, although as I type this, I see that their web page has not been updated as of yet. Anyway, take a look at this list! These books will be dueling it out for the win. I am reading four of them now (good [...]
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This has been a great year of reading for me. I’ve been touched by books in numerous ways but when the end of the year comes along, I find myself overly choosy over which ones make my “top” list. This year, I am only sharing five. These stories are still floating around in my head [...]
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Christmas? My brain is saying no. The mild weather in Southern California agrees with me. No, I am not quite there yet but Christmas is a mere seven weeks away. Did you know that? The Hub and I got into a heated discussion about it. He prefers to let it creep up on him, but [...]
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In the past, I have never thrown a book away. I’ve always donated my books or found them homes some other way, but sometimes the books are just so horrible that the thought of someone reading them makes me cringe. But then, there is a little piece of me that starts to compare it to [...]
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Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage, Paperback, 9781400078776, October 2010, 304pp.) The Short of It: Hauntingly sad, poetic and beautiful. The Rest of It: *No obvious spoilers. The story opens with Kathy H., who has been a “carer” for over eleven years. As she tells her story, the reader is taken back in [...]
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