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A

Abramov, Alexandr and Segrey - Horseman from nowhere
Abramov, Alexandr and Segrey - Heaven without a memory

Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Adamov, Grigoriy - The Mystery of Two Oceans
Adams, Douglas - THe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
Aesop - Fables (some)

Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Akhmatova, Anna - Poetry (grey-eyed king)(in russian)
Akunin, Boris - State's Advisor
Akunin, Boris - Murder on the Leviathan
Akunin, Boris - The Turkish Gambit

Alekseev, Vyacheslav, Zislis, Michael - Expedition
Andersen, Hans Christian - Fairy Tales
Anderson, lora - Children of Eternity (Deti Vechnosti)<
Aristotle - Aristotle's Ethics
Asimov, Isaac - Foundation
Asimov, Isaac - Stories

Asseev, Nikolai - Poetry
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane - Emma
Avramenko, Oleg - Son of Twilight and Light


B

Babel, Isaac - Collected Stories (in russian)
Bachurin, Evgeniy - Poertry

Bagirov, Eduard - Gastarbaiter
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Balzac, Honore - Lost Illusions
Balzac, Honore - Cousin Bette
Balzac, Honore - The Bureaucrats

Baum, Frank - The Wizard of OZ (all of it by Volkov)
Bazhov, P.P. - Tales of Ural Mountains

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Beowulf
Berne, Eric - Games people Play
Block, Alexander -- Poetry
Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron
Boyle, T. T. -- Drop City
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Brooks, Max - The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code
Brown, Dan - Angels and Demons
Brown, Dan - Deception Point

Brown, Dan - Digital Fortress
Bulgakov, Mikhael - Master and Margarita
Bulgakov, Mikhael - Heart of a Dog
Bunin, Ivan - Stories
Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Tarzan (the series)
Byron, George G. Lord - Poetry


C

Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Capellanus, Andreas - The Art of Courtly Love
Carlin, George - Napalm & Silly Putty
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass

Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cato,Nancy and Caughey, Carolyn - All rivers run
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov, Anton - Mumu

Chekhov, Anton - Seagull
Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre -- Les Liaisons dangereuses
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Christie, Agatha - Poirot Novels
Christie, Agatha - The Secret Adversary
Christie, Agatha - And then there were none
Christie, Agatha - Miss Marple Stories
Christie, Agatha - Pale Horse
Christie, Agatha - The Sittaford House
Christie, Agatha - Short Stories

Christie, Agatha - Destination Unknown
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage

D

Dante - Inferno de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Derzhavin - poetry
Duras, Marguerite - Hiroshima, Mon Amur
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dickenson, Emily - Poetry
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Grand Inquisitor
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Brothers Karamazov

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dovlatov, Sergei - Zapovednik
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - Complete Sherlock Holmes
Drayton, Michael - Poetry
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore - The Financier

Druon, Maurice - Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings, series)
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre - Ten Years Later
Dumas, Alexandre - Twenty Years After
Dumas, Alexandre - The Vicomte De Bragelonne
Dumas, Alexandre - The Man in the Iron Mask

Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre - The Black Tulip
Dumas, Alexandre - The Two Dianas

Durova, Nadejda - Kavalerist Devitsa

E

Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
de Saint-Exepury, Antoine - The Little Prince

F

Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fest, Joachim -- Inside Hitler's Bunker (The last days of the Third Reich)
Fey,Tina-Bossy Pants
Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones's Diary

Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flynn, Gilllian - Gone Girl
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Fomenko T. Anatoly - History: Science or Fiction?

Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Franklin, Benjamin - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Freethy, Barbara - Don't say a word
Friedman L. Thomas - The World Is Flat


G

Gibson, William - Pattern Recognition
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Yellow Wallpaper
Gladwell, Malcolm - The Tipping Point
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust

Gogol, Nilolai - The Overcoat
Gogol, Nikolai - Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
Gogol, Nikolai - Taras Bulba
Gogol, Nikolai - Engagement

Gogol, Nikolai - Viy
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Goldman, William - Princess Bride
Golon, Anne & Serge - Angelique (series)
Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomov
Goodkind, Terry - Sword of Truth Series
Gregory, Philippa - The Virgin's Lover
Grimm, Brothers - Fairy Tales
Grin, Alexander - Crimson Sails
Grin, Alexander - The Shining World

Gromov, Alexaner- Soft Landing
Guest, Judith - Ordinary People

Guy de Maupassant - Bel-Ami

H

Hamilton, Laurell K. - Anita Blake Series
Hansberry, Lorraine - Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Harris, Charlene - Sookie Stackhouse Series

Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Heller, Zoe - The Believers
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Hemingway, Ernest - Sun also rises
Henry, O. - The Gift of the Magi (and other stories)
Hesse, Herman - The Glass Bead Game
Homer - The Iliad (parts)
Homer - The Odyssey (parts)

Hughes, Langston - Poems

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World

I

Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
Ibsen, Henrik - Hedda Gabler

Ilf & Petrov - 12 Chairs
Ilf & Petrov - Golden Calf


J

James, E. L. - Fifty Shades Trilogy
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Jansson, Tove - Tales from Moominvalley (and the rest of it)
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Junge, Traudl - Until the Final Hour (Hitler's Last Secretary)

K

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz - The Castle

Keats, John - Poems

Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Kipling, Rudyar - Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyar -Just So Stories (Books of Wonder)

Kipling, Rudyar - Poetry
Khlebnikov, Paul - Conversation with Barbarian
Koshaev, V and Elin, N - Crash of Agent 008
Kostova, Elizabeth - Historian
Kozlov, Sergei - Is it true that we'll alsays be?
Kozlov, William - President of the Stone Island
Kozlov, William - President does not resign

Kundera, Milan - Unberable Lightness of Being
Kuprin, Alexander - The Bracelet of Garnets
Kuprin, Alexander - Olesia
Kuprin, Alexander - Love Stories

Kushner, Tony - Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Kushner, Tony - Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

L

Laclos, Choderlos De - Dangerous Liasons
Landay, William - Defending Jacob
Larsson, Stieg - Millenium Trilogy
Madame de Lafayette - The Princesse de Cleves
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Leskov, Nikolai - Lefty
Levitin, Daniel, J - This is your brain on music

Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
Lermontov - Borodino
Lermontov - Hero of our Time

Levitt D. Steven and Dubner, J Stephen - Freakonomics
Lindgren,Astrid - Karlson who lived on the roof
Lindgren,Astrid - The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren,Astrid - Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

Loginov, Svyatoslav - LIght in the window"
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
London, Jack - White Fang


M

Magee, Bryan - The Story of Philosophy
Maguire, Gregory - Wicked
Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince
Malory, Sir Thomas - Morte Darthur (some)

Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marie de France - Lais (some)
Marshak, Samuel Yakovlevich - Poetry
Marshak, Samuel Yakovlevich - 12 months

Marquez, Gabriel Garcнa - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Maupassant, Guy De - Stories
Maxwell, Robin - The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
Mayakovsky - Poetry
McBain, Ed - the 87th Princict Novels
McCullough, Colleen - The Thorn Birds
McKinley, Robin - Sunshine
Meyer, Stephenie - Twilight Series

Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Miller, Arthur - Death of A Salesman
Miller, Arthur - A View from the Bridge
Miller, Arthur - All My Sons

Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
Miller, Henry - Tropic of Capricorn
Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
Milne, A. A. - The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
Milton, John - Paradise Lost
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
Moliere - Tartuffe
More, Sir Thomas - Utopia
Moravia, Alberto -Time of Indifference

Morrison, Toni - Beloved

N

Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Neruda, Pablo - Poems
Nosov, Nikolai - The mites of Flower Town (Dunno's adventures)
Nosov, Nikolai - Dunno in Sunny Town
Nosov, Nikolai - Dunno on the Moon


O

O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
Okudzhava, Bulat - Poetry
Olesha, Yury - Stories

O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Orwell, George - 1984

P

Patterson, James - 1st to Die: A Novel (Women's Murder Club) M
Patterson, James - Sam's Letters to Jennifer
Pelevin, Viktor - Omon Ra (in russian)
Pelevin, Viktor - A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories
Pelevin, Viktor - Chapaev and Emptiness

Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago + Poems

Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Plato - Republic (and some dialogs)
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Pope, Alexander - Poems

Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Pushkin, Aleksandr - The history of village Goruhino
Pushkin, Aleksandr - The Queen of Spades
Pushkin, Aleksandr - The Captains Daughter
Pushkin, Aleksandr - Stories of deceised Ivana Petrovicha Belkina

Pushkin, Aleksandr - Tales
Pushkin, Aleksandr - The Bronze Horseman
Pushkin, Aleksandr - Poetry

Pushkin, Aleksandr - Boris Godunov
Pushkin, Aleksandr - Eugene Onegin
Pushkin, Aleksandr - Ruslan and Ludmila
Pushkin, Aleksandr - Poetry


R

Rand,Ayn; Peikoff, Leonard - Fountainhead
Raspe, Rudolph Erich - The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Ridley, Matt - Genome
Rodari, Gianni - Chipollino
Rodari, Gianni - Gelsomino in the Country of Liars
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac

Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter
Rubinina, Dina - Syndrome Petrushki

Rushdie, Salman - The Moor's Last Sigh
Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses

S

Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Sagan, Francoise - Aimez-Vous Brahms?
Sanaev, Pavel - Poxoronite menya za plintusom
Sartre, Jean Paul - The Transcendence of the Ego
Sartre, Jean Paul - The Flies

Scherbakova, Galina - You could never imagine...
Schreiber, Flora Rheta - Sybil
Semyonova, Maria - Volkodav I-IV (Wolfhound)
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William - The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare, William - King Lear
Shakespeare, William - Othello
Shakespeare, William - Titus Adrnonicus
Shakespeare, William - The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare, William - Sonnets
Shakespeare, William - A Lovers Complaint
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shefner, Vadim - Tales for the Smart Ones

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Sholohov, Michael - Tixiy Don (Silent Don)
Shulman, Irwing - West Side Story
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Simmons, Daniel - Hyperion
Simmons, Daniel - The Fall of Hyperion
Simon, Neil - California Suite
Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - Gulag Archipelago One

Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stewart, John - America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Suskind, Patrick - Parfume - The Story of a Murderer
Suzuki, Koji - Ring
Suzuki, Koji - Spiral
Suzuki, Koji - Loop
Suzuki, Koji - The Ring Volume 4
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Jonathan - A Modest Proposal


T

Tolkien, J R R - The Lord of the Rings I, II
Tolkien, J R R - The Hobbit

Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
The Thousand and One Nights (some)
Thoreau, Henry David - poems
Tolstoi, Alexei - Peter the Great I&II (in russian)
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace (in russian)
Tolstoy, Leo - The Death of Ivan Ilych
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo - Childhood; Boyhood; Youth

Tsao, Chan - Dream of the Red Chamber
Tsvetaeva, Marina - Poetry ('I ask a mirror for a glimse' in russian)
Turgenev, Ivan - Mumu
Turgenev, Ivan - First Love
Turgenev, Ivan - Asya

Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark - The Prince and the Pauper


V

Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voinovich, Vladimir - Moskva 2042
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five
Virgil - The Aenied (some)

W

Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Wesberger, Lauren - The Devil Wears Prada
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar - The importance of being Earnest
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee - A Street Car Named Desire

Williams, Tennessee- Suddenly, Last summer
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own

Wright, Richard - Native Son

Z

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind

2012-10-07
11:51 AM

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz - The Shadow of the Wind

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind

what an amazing book. I haven't read a decent historical romance for a while. This, i thought, was a soup of Les Meserables, Count of Monte Cristo, Phantom of the Opera and greek tragedy all in one. The story is about a boy who finds a rare book in the 'cemetery of books' and goes off trying to find the author in the process becoming part of the gruesome love story. The story is set in Barcelona with Paris for scenery change - equally beautiful and romantic places. Every thing is thought through... every name ...
i loved that Daniels life repeats the pattern of Julians and loved that it was able to break the curse.
i thought that lives were easily lost, but books set during the time of war often use that to their advantage. The uncertain times give the right tone of wariness and fatality.

i didn't mind the coincidences... life is full of them.

characters were appealing and interesting but not overly simplistic. Julian's father, for instance, could have continued being the loathesome man he was through out the book but he was give a chance to redeem himself. Sofia although not explained finally seemed to find her proper place in life. Relationship between Nuria and her father and her husband were also interesting and appealing. They were not easy or pleasant but based on mutual humility.

quotes
"like all old cities, Barcelona is a sum of its ruins. THe great glories so many people are prod of - plaaces, factories, and monuments, the emblems with which we identify - are nothing more than relics of an extinguished civilization." p 185 location 2831

"books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you', answered Julian." p 193 location 2948

"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
"Who said taht? Seneca?'
'No. Barulio Recolons - he runs a pork bucher's on Calle Avignon and has a great talent for both making sausages and composing witty aphorisms." p276 location 4221

"I observed him cautiously while Bernarda snored like a baby calf.
'Little angel,' Whispered Fermine, entranced." p 278 location 4257

"Making money isnt' hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to." p347 location 5325

"it was my 24th birthday, and I knew that the best part of my life was lready behind me." p347 location 5314

"most of us have the good or bad fortune to seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice it." p 391 location 5991

"don't laugh, it's people lie her who make this louse world a place worth visiting."
"whores?" 'No. We're all whores, sooner or later. I mean good-hearted people. And don't look at me like that. Weddings turn me to jelly." p441 location 6749

2012-09-22
2:21 PM

McKinley, Robin - Sunshine

I was looking to continue with my vampire escapist fiction trip. Unfortunately, it hasn't cut it. It made an attempt at much better writing than used to from the twilight, anita blake series, but the plot line failed to differ from them. In addition the vampire protagonist was painted more alien than others and therefore you couldn't connect well with him. Sunshine however delivered the whiny , nobody with powers perfectly . So the annoying trait stayed while the only attractive factor was removed. so no.

2012-09-22
2:31 PM

Landay, William - Defending Jacob

did not like this book. spoilers. i found the way characters behaved and interacted strange. the whole town stops speaking to the family immediately. the whole family. the mother who did nothing bad in her whole life takes her own kitchen knife and throws it into the lake. the wrong knife, easily traced to her kitchen. Jacob allows blood spatters on his clothes both times. both parents clearly knew Jacob did it and they allowed interactions with Hope unsupervised. father, a DA, makes so many stupid awkward moves like engaging the molester, tempering with the evidence and is constantly lying. i also found his active denial annoying and odd. Also, based on the family history you assume that his not all there and his moral compass is off, but he knows right from wrong and he's dealt with people like his son his whole life. So why after the trial is over the family decides to act like Jacob is innocent and there is no problem? Wouldn't exploration into what to do with his diagnoses make more sense? a continued conversation with psychologist on treatment options? this is also the type of book that i will probably forget reading. so i feel a bit like my time was wasted.

2012-08-21
11:22 PM

Hughes, Langston

Madam and the Census Man

The census man,
The day he came round,
Wanted my name
To put it down.

I said, Johnson,
Alberta K.
But he hated to write
The K that way.

He said, What
Does K stand for?
I said, K--
And nothing more.

He said, I'm gonna put it
K?A?Y.
I said, If you do,
You lie.

My mother christened me
Alberta K.
You leave my name
Just that way!

He said, Mrs.,
(With a snort)
Just a K
Makes your name too short.

I said, I don't
Give a damn!
Leave me and my name
Just like I am!

Furthermore, rub out
That MRS., too--
I'll have you know
I'm Madam to you!

(c) Langston Hughes

2012-07-11
2:38 PM

Flynn, Gilllian - Gone Girl

two married writers after falling on hard times and loosing their manhattan jobs move back to his home town in Missouri. After a year she disappears under suspicious circumstances and the search for Amy begins. The husband soon becomes a prime suspect. The books is narrated from his and her perspective. It throws and sways your opinion along with the public's view of the 'who-did' in the book. It is clever and keeps your interest to the last 'what will happen now' page.

2012-07-03
8:08 PM

Heller, Zoe - The Believers

this was another book from book club this book reminded me of Ordinary people where a family unravels under the strain of losing a loved one. The ordinary every day events creep the past into oblivion, characters revealed, lives transformed. At the core of Litvinoff's family is Litvinoff, a lawyer who takes pride in defending and befriending imbeciles; his wife Audrey, who believes she says things others think; Rosa, is adamant in finding a cause of her own weather it's communism or jewdaism; Lenny, is a druggy floater and Karla, struggles with her weight and her overbearing family. What i liked is how well written this book is. The commentary flows, the language is superb and i had to look things in thesarause yay (now give me a dictionary so i can learn how to spell). I realized that Xorovod came from Bulkan horah. I love those little trivia bits i'll forget in a month. I loved the revelation that Audrey's daily routine of nastiness was originally a defense mechanism in social situations. It has grown into a defining character trait and she feels trapped by it. It is now a reflex and she catches herself not being able to get out of it. Good example is her meeting with Berenice. I entirely sympathize with Karla. I just like her. i don't like the rest for now. since i'm still reading. 8]

2012-04-11
10:13 PM

Truman Capote

Breakfast at Tiffany's [Paperback]

2012-04-11
10:14 PM

Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles

started reading it because of 50 shades and because we're moving to England. When we visited Stonehenge they quoted it. seemed to be popping out all over the place so i read it. may be this should be read at a younger more impressionable age. the story of Tess didn't impress me. i did like reading about England at that time, about peasant life. reminded me of Pushkin and Tolstoys story lines.

2012-04-11
10:16 PM

Hamilton, Laurell K. - Anita Blake Series

vampire fiction Anita blake is a legal executioner of vampires gets involved with a vampire and city's were's. got really tired after a while

2012-04-11
10:21 PM

Maguire, Gregory - Wicked

4/11/2012 this is a book about life of wicked witch of the west before dorothy . he uses some really big words. and the world he creates is fascinating with Animals and munchkins ...

2012-03-15
3:18 PM

E. L. James - 50 Shades Trilogy

it is what it is. flower duet - Delibes from Lakme kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

2012-03-11
10:24 AM

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2012-03-02
5:52 PM

Rubinina, Dina - Syndrome Petrushki

absolutely wonderful book that should be read. It is truly intricate and exquisite with excellent depictions of people and places. a romance with historical and mystical components to it about a genius puppeteer and his wife. the story starts simple but unfolds into a glorious fairy tale. must read.

2012-03-01
1:36 PM

Guy de Maupassant -- Bel-Ami

to read

2012-01-30
9:31 PM

Barbara Freethy -- Don’t say a word

So i joined a book club. it's about time and i always wanted to belong to one to proactively discuss books with other like and not minded individuals.
One top of that the 14th book of Anita Blake series was growing tired on me (which reminds me that i still have to add it)

Since the book is not to be discussed until end of February and i finished reading it the day before yesterday let me count the ways this tiny book managed to annoy me...

1. Russia. Oh how i hate american authors writing about russia. Especially bad american authors. Russia seems a quick and easy way to make the plot sound exotic. The author might as well make it China or any other overseas destination. I love how a diner owner knew of an artist who makes matryoshkas. Really? it's like expecting an American to know a famous quilt maker from Alabama.
In the end when the plot brings us to Russia the story reads like a wikipeadia page describing the landmarks on Moscow square. We get it. You visited it ones.

2. Dropped lines. So what happened to Dasha? I though they were suppose to go visit her and find out more? no? What happened? why did we waste 2 pages? What happened to the russian uncle? disappeared into the night?

3. Shallow and underdeveloped characters. Michael and Liz are flat. Alex's and Julia's relationship failed to generate any interest other than 'when will they sleep already?'

4. Dialog. OMG. i wanted to choke anyone who opened their mouth. Gossip Girl onWB has better dialog. It almost felt like she was slapping cliche's together to fit the plot. Especially the last conversation of Alex and Julia! How uninspired!


To conclude, if it wasn't for the book club this review would never have been written and this book would have never been finished.
Boo.

2011-09-19
9:34 PM

Simonson, Helen - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand


someone gave my husband this book for christmas. I have attempted to read it . for a while. it was sitting in my bathroom for months. i didn't finish it.

the store is of old English major who's facing aging and late romance with an indian shop keeper (gasp) and his son and globalization and ... ohh it's a poor old major in a new world. it's a good book. but not a page turner.

2011-09-19
9:37 PM

Largson, Stieg - Millenium Trilogy


a swedish bestseller it's a book about a genius girl with uncanny hacking ability and her right of passage.
absolutely amazing

2011-09-19
9:45 PM

Harris, Charlene - Sookie Stackhouse Series


hmm the guilty pleasure. actually starting reading these after i finished twilight series (for the eptinth time) And started watching True Blood. since i like the show so much it only made sense.
oh it's full of holes (vampires, witches, wolves, fairies and god only knows what else) and is poorly written. but really i'm not asking for life lessons or deep philosophical discussion here. it's lovely

2011-09-19
10:07 PM

Fey, Tina - Bossy Pants


love Tina love her style. a wonderful comedic look into her career and behind closed doors of SNL and 30 rock studio

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