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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Read: March 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: I wanted to love this book. I was desperate to love this book. And it started out so good, I was almost sure I had a winner. It starts with a woman climbing … Continue reading

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If you’re happy and you know it

You must not have mice gnawing in your walls all night while you try to sleep.

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All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: This book has three main characters and I couldn’t really tell any of them apart. And I didn’t care what happened to any of them. And then the book ended.

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Cry me an ocean, cruise ship industry

As I’m sure you’ve heard, that remarkably accident-prone Costa Cruises (owned by Carnival, actually) just had another ship go haywire on the high seas. (Side note: I love the term “high seas.”) Right after the Costa Concordia tipped over off … Continue reading

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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: This book is narrated by the family’s pet dog. If that doesn’t affect my objectivity, I don’t know what would. It pretty much would have had to have been about the ritualistic slaughter … Continue reading

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: I only read book one of a three book series, so that will affect my review. Reasons I didn’t like it: 1) it’s a kids’ book, so it was too simple. Mindy said … Continue reading

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Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: More crappy, nauseating, pointless, poorly written chick lit. No wonder everyone makes fun of this genre. Stuff that in real life would be a really big deal is downplayed, and stuff that isn’t … Continue reading

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Hello, I Must Be Going by Christie Hodgen

Read: February 2012 Rating: Thumbs Down Review: Just a poorly written book. The worst kind of crap: foreshadowing things that never happen, scrambling at the end to create some kind of point to the whole mess, and no redeeming behavior … Continue reading

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Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: This is chick lit, just FYI. Although I wasn’t satisfied with the ending to this book, I loved how it pulled me right in and was one of the quickest reads I’ve ever … Continue reading

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Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis

Read: January 2012 Rating: Thumbs Up Review: Ah, nonfiction. I’m not generally a fan because of one reason and one reason only: it’s always WAY too long. I would say about 90% of the nonfiction books I’ve read would have … Continue reading

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