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Review: Ready Player One
Ready Player One By Ernest Cline (Crown, Hardcover, 9780307887436, August 2011, 384pp.) The Short of It: An entertaining romp down memory lane, but in the end its potential for “geektastic-ness” was...
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Review, Tour & Giveaway: The Age of Miracles
The Age of Miracles By Karen Thompson Walker (Random House, Hardcover, 9780812992977, June 26, 2012, 288pp.) The Short of It: The languid nature of the writing and the exploration of what time means...
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Prepping for the Big Day
Anyone else excited about October 16, 2012? Big book releases give me the shivers. Seriously. The build-up is almost too much for me. I begged and pleaded for an ARC (advanced reading copy) of The...
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Review: The Sparrow
The Sparrow By Mary Doria Russell Ballantine Books, Paperback, 9780449912553, September 1997, 448pp.) *No Spoilers* The Short of It: This is one of those stories that innocently skips along and then...
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Review: The Book of Strange New Things
The Book of Strange New Things By Michel Faber (Hogarth, Hardcover, 9780553418842, October 2014, 512pp.) The Short of It: It’s all strange and new and in my opinion, wonderful. The Rest of It: After a...
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Review: The New World
The New World By Chris Adrian; Eli Horowitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover, 9780374221812, May 2015, 224pp. The Short of It: A strange, surreal story about love and marriage. The Rest of It:...
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Review: The City of Mirrors
The City of Mirrors By Justin Cronin Ballantine Books, Hardcover, 9780345505002, May 2016, 624pp. The Short of It: There is a lot of pressure for the last book in a trilogy to be great and I feel that...
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Review: The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven By Ursula K. Le Guin Scribner Book Company, 9781416556961, May 2008, 184pp. The Short of It: Even though this book was originally published in 1971, it still possesses a...
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Review: The Institute
The Institute By Stephen King Scribner, 9781982110567, September 2019, 576pp. The Short of It: Not what I expected. The Rest of It: When it comes to King, it’s obvious to me and has been for decades,...
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Review: The Need
The Need By Helen Phillips Simon & Schuster, 9781982113162, July 2019, 272pp. The Short of It: I’d be lying if I said I fully understood everything that went on in this novel. The Rest of It:...
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Review: Kindred
Kindred By Octavia Butler Beacon Press, 9780807083697, 2004, 264pp. The Short of It: Not your typical science fiction read. The Rest of It: Dana and her husband Kevin find themselves in a unique...
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Review: The Memory Police
The Memory Police By Yoko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder Vintage, 9781101911815, July 2020, 288pp. The Short of It: Ethereal and beautiful, tinged with sadness. The Rest of It: On a remote...
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Review: The Dreamers
The Dreamers By Karen Thompson Walker Random House Trade Paperbacks, 9780812984668, November 2019, 336pp. The Short of It: This book originally came out in January 2019, way before our own pandemic...
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Review: Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun By Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf, 9780593318171, March 2021, 320pp. The Short of It: Love, loneliness and loyalty are front and center in this story about friendship. The Rest of It: Klara...
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Review: Dune
Dune By Frank Herbert Ace, 9780441172719, 1990, 896pp. The Short of It: I really enjoyed the world-building in this classic. The Rest of It: Here’s my disclaimer. I read this book during all of my...
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Review: Sea of Tranquility
Sea of Tranquility By Emily St. John Mandel Knopf, 9780593321447, April 2022, 272pp. The Short of It: Reading Mandel guarantees exploratory thought processes. The Rest of It: Summing this story up is...
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