Rated The Late Americans 8/10
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Wants to read Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak
Rated Early Work Of Cindy Sherman 5/10
<div>I respect that Cindy Sherman has a place in art history, but the first project in this book has blackface and that "character" is lit horribly, so I'm glad I found this book for free. It still had the music CD in the back, but I have not listened. Maybe one day out of curiosity, I will take it out to the car, but I can't say the book made it a priority.</div>
Rated I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself 10/10
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Wants to read Wake of Vultures
Wants to read Seed to Harvest
Much like the actual military, this tale of soldiers vying for dominance was a lot of "hurry up and wait." It took until the second half of the story for things to kick off, and once they did, there was a level of violence that is quite unlike a regular DW story, a distinct relishing in the villains' cruelty at times. Also, I did not care for the way Richards describes the women, of which there are very few. Even in times of stress or action, their bodies are described with cheap, schoolboy longing. I didn't wholly dislike the book overall, but it was definitely one of the weaker Doctor Who novels I've read.
Rated Electric Literature No. 5 10/10
From the first paragraph of Kevin Brockmeier's "A Fable For the Living" until the last line of Lynne Tillman's "The Original Impulse," I remained so glad that I'd purchased a subscription to the quarterly publication.<br><br><i>Electric Literature No. 5</i> is a fantastic collection, with all five stories bleeding into one another to make a cohesive whole. Each one deals with people trying to fill some void in their life, some unspeakable absence, even when their methods for doing so are unhealthy. These are flawed, interesting individuals, and I couldn't ask for more in a collection of short stories. I flew through this slim volume, and I am eager to read <i>No. 6</i> when it arrives in my mailbox.<br><br><i>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/06/electric-literature-no-5-stories-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)</i>
Wants to read Queen of the Conquered
Rated Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day 2024 8/10
<div>Really good start to a new Doctor's comic run.</div>
Wants to read The Night and Its Moon
Rated Fiennders Keepers 8/10
I waffled a bit between three stars or four because there are too many damn characters to keep track of and sometimes the writing is bogged down in superfluous detail, but I kinda get that was part of the point -- that our histories are complex, and the English class system could really muck things up for people.<br><br>You can tell this is a first novel -- though it was released as Jean Marsh's second, she wrote this one first. Big ambition, sometimes shaky in execution. Still liked it, but would recommend her other two books first.
Wants to read Cien años de soledad
Wants to read Cyber Mage
Rated Maradona's mythe: Diego en de kinderen van Napels 2/10
Een slappe herschrijving van het boek van Sjoerd Mossou. 95% van het boek is oude, bekende kost. De overige 5% gaat over de zogenaamde mythe van het weeshuis. <br/>Bekende Napolitanen als Geolier worden op geforceerde wijze bij het verhaal betrokken. Er is echt weinig uniek aan het boek. <br/><br/>Daarnaast is het boek ook nog eens gewoon slecht geschreven. Het zit vol domme grappen, onnavolgbare vergelijkingen en onnodige linkjes naar het zoontje van de schrijver. <br/>Ik keek uit naar dit boek en ben teleurgesteld. Sorry, Sander.
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Wants to read Jade City
Finished reading Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
Finished reading The God of Small Things