Title : Never Let Me Go Author : Kazoo Ishiguro Genre : Dystopian Publisher : Vintage Pages : 288 Rating : 3.5/5 Remains Of the Day remains one of my all-time favorites. And since Ishiguro is a master story-teller I had high hopes from Never Let Me Go. It is very different from Remains; where […]
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Audiobook Showcase: Brandon Sanderson’s Firefight
[amazon_link id=”0385743580″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I’m a little late to the party here, but did want to showcase the recent release of Brandon Sanderson’s audiobook. Here is a short clip from the audiobook, and below is the Goodreads blurb: From the #1 “New York Times” bestselling author of Words of Radiance coauthor of Robert Jordan’s […]
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[amazon_link id=”0307887448″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Yes, this is that kind of a tale, so you might grab a box of tissues before you sit down to read this. This blog post is a story – a story of how “mainstream reviewers” can fail you and of how the most raved about book might not be […]
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I read a bunch of books in 2012, but here are three of the best: [amazon_link id=”0812982940″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker : You’d think that sci-fi and coming-of-age genres wouldn’t mix very well, but they do. The book is based on a scientific phenomena – the shifting of […]
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