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The Years Of Rice And Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

I mean, there I was, snorting crank with my dad, my boyfriend, and his other girlfriend. Something majorly wrong with that picture.   Another dark recommendation by my friend Lindsey, and likewise excellent.… Read More

The Gathering by Anne Enright

“It is time to call an end to romance and just say what happened in Ada’s house, the year that I was eight and Liam was barely nine.” This sentence comes on page… Read More

World War Z by Max Brooks

This book vividly portrays what’s left of humanity around the world after the zombie war, across cultures and borders, and what the world went through. A really gripping and chillingly envisioned documentary in… Read More

Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man. I now walk into the wild. Alex.   I keep breaking… Read More

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

At first I thought this was a book about zombies. The title and even the blurb on the back sound like it could be zombies! But Living Dead Girl is actually about a… Read More

The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

This is the kind of book I’m supposed to be getting more out of as I work on becoming more well-read. But I just didn’t get anything out of this, not even a… Read More

Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel

This one was less challenging than Wolf Hall, perhaps because I’m practiced now in Mantel’s particular Cromwellian style, or perhaps simply because it’s a shorter book. Mantel keeps masterful track of the dozens… Read More

Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis

What now passes for wheat [in the latter part of the twentieth century] has changed, not through the forces of drought or disease or a Darwininan scramble for survival, but through human intervention.… Read More

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell

The same evening I talked to my husband about how I was enjoying Black Swan Green while I was reading it but I wasn’t feeling compelled to keep picking it up, I got… Read More

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