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The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
I have this strategy – I’ve mentioned it before – where when I really like an author, I save some of their books. I haven’t read two (2) of Salman Rushdie’s books. Mart… more →
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The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
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Jenny wrote 6 days ago: I have this strategy – I’ve mentioned it before – where when I really like an auth … more →
Chalice, Robin McKinley
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Jenny wrote 3 weeks ago: So this is my adult fantasy or science fiction book for Jeane’s DogEar Challenge, and I have m … more →
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
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Jenny wrote 2 months ago: Y’all, I’m applying for graduate school. It is stressful as hell. I’m telling you because the more … more →
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, ed. Barbara Reynolds
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Jenny wrote 2 months ago: This is the first volume of Dorothy Sayers’s letters, actually. It’s properly called, Th … more →
Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers
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Jenny wrote 2 months ago: A few days ago, my friend tim mentioned Gaudy Night, and I realized that I wanted nothing in the wor … more →
84 Charing Cross Road & The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
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Jenny wrote 3 months ago: My sister has this magical ability to get people to do things for her. It is amazing. Everyone in … more →
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
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Jenny wrote 4 months ago: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is feminist dystopian satire. It was sort of a bo … more →
On Agate Hill, Lee Smith
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Jenny wrote 4 months ago: A book I acquired in spite of my firm and as-yet-unbroken book-buying ban. My lovely grandmother (m … more →
Buffy's eighth series
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Jenny wrote 4 months ago: So I was mysteriously untempted by the Buffy Season Eight comics for a really long time, and then Fy … more →
The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies
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Jenny wrote 4 months ago: You know what my favorite thing about this book was? And don’t think I’m saying this in … more →
The Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede
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Jenny wrote 4 months ago: Verdict: Not racist! (Phew.) I read somewhere that The Thirteenth Child was racist, and it stressed … more →
Fire from Heaven, Mary Renault
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Jenny wrote 5 months ago: I will preface this by saying that I can understand how you might not like Mary Renault’s writ … more →
Smoke and Mirrors, Barbara Michaels
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Jenny wrote 5 months ago: For some reason, I’m attached to Smoke and Mirrors. It’s not one of Barbara Michaels … more →
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
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Jenny wrote 5 months ago: I don’t know what I can really say about Persepolis that hasn’t been said already. What I love abou … more →
Two books by Elizabeth Peters
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Jenny wrote 6 months ago: Elizabeth Peters – under this pseudonym as well as her other one, Barbara Michaels – is … more →
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (trans.)
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Jenny wrote 6 months ago: So this is a really good translation. It sounds French, if that makes any sense – the words from th … more →
Thames, Peter Ackroyd
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Jenny wrote 6 months ago: I have to say, this was the perfect airplane book. I know because I spent eighteen hours traveling … more →
The Genie of Sutton Place, George Selden
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Jenny wrote 7 months ago: Okay, okay, okay. So I read A Cricket in Times Square (of course). And then I read the one about T … more →
Blackbriar, William Sleator
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Jenny wrote 7 months ago: I like it when it rains on a weekend that I don’t have any outside plans. This weekend, I cur … more →
