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Lindy Reads and Reviews: August 2015
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Sunday, August 30, 2015. Book Bingo, Second Card, Fifth Line. So much reading, so little blogging. I started my first Book Bingo card on the May long weekend and I've finished 84 books since then, so you would think that I'd have completed three. By Rachel Hartman [Listening Library audiobook: 18 hr, 10 min: narrated by Mandy Williams and W Morgan Sheppard]. See previous Book Bingo post. By Karen Bass,...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: May 2015
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Friday, May 29, 2015. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. I picked up Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love. Because of Simon's enthusiasm over at Savidge Reads. Where he calls himself a Mitford maniac, and also because it pops up on lists with names like 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. It also brought to mind aspects of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. Here's a bit where the sheltered eldest dau...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: December 2014
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Wednesday, December 31, 2014. The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King. Thomas King is at the very top of his game in The Back of the Turtle. It's warm and witty and a cracking good story about family ties. It's got environmental disaster, greed, guilt and redemption. There are elements of First Nations and Christian mythology, plus nods to the Western literary canon. Ye know trailers from trawlers? King ...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: Book Bingo: Second Card, Second Line
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Saturday, August 1, 2015. Book Bingo: Second Card, Second Line. There are some tricky categories on these book bingo. Cards Out of the following row of five, three required special effort to track down a suitable title. That's what makes this reading game an interesting challenge. BY AN AUTHOR BORN THE SAME YEAR AS YOU. By Wolf Haas, translated by Anne Janusch ( see previous book bingo post. Comics by ...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: Book Bingo, Second Card, Third Row
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Monday, August 3, 2015. Book Bingo, Second Card, Third Row. By Chuck Palahniuk [Recorded Books audiobook: 7.5 hr, narrated by Richard Poe]. I've been meaning to read something by Palahniuk for a long time. What I expected was dark satire and that's pretty much what I got with Lullaby. There's also a realtor who flips haunted properties. "Blood running down your kitchen walls? I listened to the first 15...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: April 2015
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Thursday, April 30, 2015. Mort(e) by Robert Repino. Enormous ants mastermind a plot to rid the Earth of humans in this apocalyptic tale. All nonhuman animals become sentient. People's pets rise up against their former masters. Will nonhumans do better at civilization? I really enjoyed the Blackstone audiobook Mort(e). Bronson has a versatile, animated delivery that mesmerized me. Adam Hines), Ant Colony.
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? by Matthea Harvey
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Monday, August 10, 2015. If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? Poetry and images are combined with startling effect in Matthea Harvey's lively collection If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? Harvey's work is fresh and compelling. Many of the poems are self-contained narratives, and these have the flavour of short stories by authors like George Saunders. If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? The Sem...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Monday, July 20, 2015. The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall. Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border. Is a character-based novel that progresses at a measured pace. I happened to be reading a book with similar themes concurrently: The True Deceiver. I first encountered Sarah Hall's writing in her feminist dystopia Daughters of the North. Is the UK title) some seven years ago. I also enjoyed How to Paint a Dead Man.
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: March 2015
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Nobody Is Ever Missing by Catherine Lacey. A woman hitchhikes solo through New Zealand in Catherine Lacey's compelling novel Nobody Is Ever Missing. Elyria saw many odd things on her road trip in New Zealand. I did too. Many of the people who give Elyria a ride warn her about the dangers of hitchhiking. She, however, has more lofty things on her shattered mind. I walked into th...
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Lindy Reads and Reviews: Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai
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Lindy Reads and Reviews. Teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction. you name it! Thursday, July 30, 2015. Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai. The short stories in Rebecca Makkai's Music for Wartime. In an interview in Harper's. Makkai explains: "When I began putting together Music for Wartime. Zsuzsi consoles Melanie by telling her about Rigo Jansci, a Hungarian cake named for an adulterer. (I'm going to make one of these chocolate mousse cakes. Sounds delicious.). In "Couple of L...
