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Rated The Hunger Games 10/10

Rated The Fifth Elephant 9/10

Rated The Last Olympian 8/10

Wants to read Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams

Rated The Lightning Thief 8/10

Wants to read Nothing... Except My Genius: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Rated The Maze Runner 4/10

Wants to read Choupette: The Private Life of a High-Flying Fashion Cat

Wants to read How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves

Rated This is Not a Test 4/10

Wants to read Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa

Rated Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 1 10/10

Rated The Annual Migration of Clouds 10/10

Very good but I certainly hope there's a sequel. Interesting slowpocalypse and main character -- feels mostly YA.

Finished reading 地縛少年 花子くん 2

Finished reading The Art of Southern Charm

Wants to read The Beautiful Ones

Wants to read Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

Wants to read The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

Finished reading Otherside Picnic, Vol. 1

Wants to read News from Nowhere and Other Writings

Reviewed The Heiress: A Novel

I read this for a local book club. I like the occasional foray into whodunits and murders. This one really was full of murders everywhere. The interspersed confessional kept things going in between what to me was less interesting bits of the present with the repetitively angry adoptive son and his out-of-his-league wife.<br/><br/>Really, it turned out everyone was terrible here, even the golden boy prodigal adoptive son. The pile up of twists in the back quarter of the book went maybe 1 or 2 too many. On the other hand, I appreciated that the adoptive son wasn't so dumb. Although in thinking about it just now it is kind of a betrayal to his portrayal throughout the entire book up until that moment.<br/><br/>The final-final twist was really what I was expecting, just not how exactly we got there with her. That part made me roll my eyes at the implausibility. What can you do, it's fiction. And entertaining enough at that. Recommended if you want a light and fast read of soapy murder full of rich sociopaths.

Finished reading 地縛少年 花子くん 0 [Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun 0]

Finished reading Otherside Picnic, Vol. 2

Rated Hamnet 4/10

Finished reading Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Vol. 1