Archive for January, 2008
Chinese Cinderella
Fabulous book. Enough said. Yeah, like I could ever leave a book review at that. So, let me jabber on about it for a bit. I have a tendency to feel a bit ho-hum about memoirs. They are generally very interesting, but I usually can’t get over the poor writing. I feel like I’ve gotten [...]
January 23, 2008
Posted in: memoir, nonfiction 
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Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship’s Boy by Louis A. Meyer
Mary Jacky Faber, speaking in the first person about her experiences negotiating relationships as she comes of age pretending to be a boy on a Navy ship—Bloody Jack has it all. Strong plot, strong characters, sex, murder, you name it. I don’t think it is ever too graphic—and Jacky definitely ends up as a “positive” [...]
January 16, 2008
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Atonement
My last novel of 2007 was such a disappointment. I’m not sure what I was expecting, especially since the trailers for the film has really cautioned me…but the book had been sitting on my shelf for a while, so I decided to give it a try. I figured the book would help me decide if [...]
January 7, 2008
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Pirate’s Gold! by Aaron Elkin
Hurrah for young adult literature! I liked Pirate’s Gold because it’s written in the first person, and the kid really talks like a kid most of the time. We get a lot of his internal dialogue as he goes through the process of catching the “girl disease” and I love reading it from his perspective. [...]
January 4, 2008
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