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 | Book Reviews: Summer Sisters (1998)- Judy Blume |
  The quest to read one book per week is, if anything, educational. This is my 27th book and I’m still waiting for it to stop feeling like homework. I assumed the regularity would fuel a passion for reading but the experience is more like running the half marathon. 4km later and I’m already panting where the hell’s that finish line?
Don’t get me wrong, I do like to read but I’d rather play tennis.
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Posted by riley on Monday, July 12 @ 10:11:52 EDT
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| Book Reviews: The Liar (1991)- Stephen Fry |
Bizarre yet clever. Like the time I got stuck playing tennis with an 80-year-old hooker who serves a mean forehand while smoking in the other. It’s John le Carré meets Gordon Korman…. and a whole lot of buggering.
Laden with British wit and argot, The Liar is, at times, hard to follow but remains one of the most beguiling books I’ve read this year.
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 28 @ 04:45:03 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Raven (2004)- Michael Murray |
 I found this book at a second-hand book sale and because Raven is unlike most books we have on our shelves, I bought it…. for my husband. Two years of sitting on the shelf, I thought I’d give it a go.
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 14 @ 08:36:02 EDT
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| Book Reviews: The God of Small Things (1997)- Arundhati Roy |
 Lay-Ter.
Like the deep-sounding bell in a mossy well. Shivery, and furred. Like moth’s feet.
The inside of this book is swarming with flowery adjectives, metaphors, alliteration and forced imagery that would make any of the 50-year-old women in my writing workshop swoon. The outside of the book is covered with accolades, eighteen in total.
Me, I just don’t get it.
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Posted by riley on Monday, June 07 @ 04:15:16 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)- John Perkins |
 "We must commit ourselves absolutely and unequivocally to shaking ourselves and everyone around us awake."
Excellent book! Not just the content, which is riveting, but also the way Mr. Perkin’s relates his story makes this book an invaluable asset to the art of non-fiction story telling. Short chapters, meaningful paragraphs, action and adventure mixed with reflective hindsight that avoids being preachy, this book should be required reading.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 31 @ 09:36:44 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Tara Road (1998)- Maeve Binchy |
 The story centers on a genuine Pollyanna who spends all day baking, cleaning, and entertaining. Sounds about as tasteful as pound cake. Throw in a cheating husband, a deceitful best friend, a wife-beater and a drug addict and the story comes to life.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 24 @ 05:02:01 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Strip City (2001)- Lily Burana |
 First I should say that I’m all for stripping. Mine’s a one-man show but for those girls out there who’d prefer more company, who am I to judge when real choice is involved.
A competent writer who comes from a supportive middle class family, stripping is clearly a choice for Ms. Burana.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 17 @ 09:06:46 EDT
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| Book Reviews: 1984 (1949)- George Orwell |
Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, Miniplenty
Riveting book that makes you think and feel bad having done so. The many contradictions and dark revelations identified in Nineteen Eighty-Four underline it’s own brilliance but I still doubt it’s threat.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 10 @ 07:26:15 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Watching Giants: The Secret Life of Whales (2009)- Elin Kelsey |
Before reading this book I didn’t know much about whales. I knew that they were big. That they are mammals, live in water and occasionally go by the names Shamu and Willie.
Thanks to my demanding New Year’s resolution and the book, Watching Giants, I’m now a little wiser. With better editing, I could be even more so.
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Posted by riley on Monday, May 03 @ 16:54:49 EDT
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| Book Reviews: Le Mystère de Tarn House (1991)- Martha Grimes |
 When I was nine I passionately read detective books. My favourite group of investigators were Jupitor Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews.
Martha Grimes has created an adult version of this genre, which includes Richard Jury, Melrose Plant and Alfred Wiggins. The Mystery of Tarn House wasn’t as fun as I remember The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot but it still motivated me enough to read in French.
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Posted by riley on Monday, April 26 @ 07:14:42 EDT
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