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Room

Joint Review: Room by Emma Donoghue

By On September 16, 2010 · 10 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, 8 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Joint Review

Title: Room

Author: Emma Donoghue

Genre: Literary Fiction, Suspense

Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Picador (UK)
Publication Date: September 2010 (US) / July 2010 (UK)
Hardcover: 320 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel

It’s Jack’s birthday, [...]

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe

Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

By On September 6, 2010 · 3 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author: Charles Yu

Genre: Science Fiction

Publisher: Pantheon (US) / Corvus (UK)
Publication date: September 7, 2010/ October 1, 2010
Hardcover: 256 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand [...]

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Book Review: A Dark Matter by Peter Straub

By On February 9, 2010 · 4 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: A Dark Matter

Author: Peter Straub

Genre: Horror, Literary Fiction

Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: February 2010
Hardcover: 416 Pages

The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After [...]

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Chat With An Author: An Interview With Peter Straub

By On February 9, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Chat With an Author

On this edition of “Chat With An Author” we bring you the ineffable Peter Straub – horror author, poet, and occasional guest star on soap opera One Life to Live. It’s no secret we’re fans of Mr. Straub’s work (so far, Thea has talked two unsuspecting readers into writing reviews of his work), [...]

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Book Review: Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett

By On January 26, 2010 · 7 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Mr. Shivers

Author: Robert Jackson Bennett

Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction

Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: January 2010
Hardcover: 336 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel

How did I get this book: Review Copy from the publisher

Why did I read this book: Ever [...]

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Joint Review: Going Bovine by Libba Bray

By On December 11, 2009 · 12 Comments · In 8 Rated Books, 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Joint Review

Title: Going Bovine

Author: Libba Bray

Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Literature, Young Adult

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: September 2009
Hardcover: 496 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel

How did we get this book: Bought

Why did we read this [...]

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Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

By On October 7, 2009 · 22 Comments · In 10 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Never Let Me Go

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Genre: Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction

Publisher: Faber and Faber (UK) / Vintage (US)
Publication Date: March 2005 (UK) / March 2006 (US)
Paperback: 304 [...]

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Guest Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

By On August 21, 2009 · 6 Comments · In Book Reviews, Guest Review, YA Appreciation Month

A while back – last Christmas, to be exact – I got my buddy Kyle a book.

Actually, let me backtrack.

Kyle is a burgeoning reader; when I first met him, he’d just started to read the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer (in fact, he now has my old copies of the books). And since [...]

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Book Review: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

By On July 9, 2009 · 10 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Angel’s Game

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Genre: Literary Fiction (Mystery)

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US cover

Publisher:Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) / Doubleday (US)
Publishing Date: 28 May 2009/ June 16 2009
Hardcover: 448 pages/ 544 pages

Stand Alone/ Series: Can be read as a stand alone but has connections with another book [...]

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Guest Author & Giveaway: Susan Holloway Scott on Inspirations & Influences

By On July 8, 2009 · 33 Comments · In Giveaways, Inspirations and Influences

“Inspirations and Influences” is a new series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free reign so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series or [...]

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