tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56710032451362111022012-02-16T14:16:40.711+01:00shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11328104560633045960noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5671003245136211102.post-40627390475139052262010-01-03T14:51:00.002+01:002010-01-03T15:17:53.316+01:00

The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second book in a trilogy. It continues on with the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, the socially-retarded genius computer hacker, and Mikael Blomkvist, investigative journalist.First off, if you happen to buy the copy I had of the book, (Quercus paperback) avoid reading the back cover -- it gives away stuff that doesn't occur until at least a third of the way

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Can I just breath a sigh of relief that this is last year that's on my list of favorites for the Aughts, and by far the best book I've read for the Cannonball up to now.Cloud Atlas is a collection of six vaguely inter-related novellas which are split into two pieces following the order A-B-C-D-E-F -F -E-D-C-B-A. Each of the novellas is set in a different time and is written in a different genre

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This is a daring book -- one that doesn't let you lull yourself into complacency assuming that you know what is going to happen next. When you think you're sure of what's coming, you can be even more sure that while you might be close, you'll never be exactly right.The story is hung around Willie Cooper, a girl who comes back to her hometown (here called Templeton, but really Cooperstown), after

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I was really sad that I didn't like this book. I'd read The Emperor of Ocean Park a few years back and loved it -- Carter combined good scholarly writing with just enough tension and plot to make 500 pages fly by.Palace Council didn't fulfill the promise of that other book, though. It starts out well. We meet our characters, all living in Harlem near the end of its Renaissance -- there's Eddie

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This is a book that I'd been meaning to read for years and years -- it came out in 1997. I'd seen it tons of times and always found some other book that looked more interesting or was on sale at that moment. I finally got around to buying it last month.The story is a retelling of the biblical story of Jacob and all his sons, but this time focusing on the story of his wives and his only daughter

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At its core, this book is about how a number of people find themselves on a boat leaving from India to bring coolies to work on plantations in the Mauritius islands, in 1838. The characters range from the owner of the ship to the ship's second mate to the coolies to the prisoners. The first half of the book concentrates on introducing us to the main characters and their initial circumstances,

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