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2011: Books in Review
End of the year survey, taken from Trisha. 1. Best Book You Read In 2011? I gave the following books five stars on Goodreads: The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan How Al-Anon Works...
Audiobook Review: Sorry, Wrong Number
Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher (performed here by L.A. Theater Works) is a famous one-act play (made into a movie!) about a handicapped woman who overhears a murder...
Book Review: The Son of Neptune
Multigrain fighting is not allowed! Oh, gosh I just loved The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan. LOVED. The second book in the Heroes of Olympus series, it picks up with Percy (YAY...
Book Review: A Tale of Two Proms
It occurred to me that this was my first big adult decision. And I have to say if this was what it meant to be an adult--to worry that any big decision you made was the wrong...
Book Review: My Life Undecided
Because when you’re being handcuffed and lowered into the backseat of a squad car, you kind of have to start reconsidering the way you live your life. In My Life Undecided by...
Book Review: How to Save a Life
If you don’t grow up to be a wife or a mother, what are you? A person alone, always wanting to be one thing or the other or both? My mother was never a wife, and that’s what she...
Audiobook Review: Howl’s Moving Castle
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows...
Mini book reviews: November and December
I am currently eight (!) books behind on reviews, so it's time for some mini-reviews, yes? Yes. The Daily Show's Five Questions from Comedy Central: Back when Craig Kilborn...
Reading Challenges 2012
My brain is so fried from grading that I am currently incapable of posting any reviews. I wish I were joking, but alas. Every time I think of writing a review, my brain just kind...