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Lorena on January 27th, 2012

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Unlike the second book, which you could pick up without having read the first, I would not read this one unless you’ve read at least the second book. This is the culmination of the story; mysteries are revealed, threads [...]

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Lorena on January 22nd, 2012

The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Like the first one, this one started off just a tad slowly, and I did wonder where he was going with it. It picked up considerable speed, though, and I absolutely devoured it. One thing I found myself thinking, though, [...]

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Lorena on January 17th, 2012

Coming Thursday to Wild Iris Books (but available now on the Wild Iris Marketplace – will ship Thursday), is my long-awaited guest-sized set of the Watership Down inspired soap set. When I started making soap to sell, I wished I could do something with my soap that also celebrated my love of literature – and [...]

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Lorena on January 17th, 2012

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m sure hundreds of people have reviewed this already, so…I picked this up because I wanted to read them before the American movie came out (I have not yet seen the Swedish movies). It took about 100 pages or so [...]

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Lorena on January 15th, 2012

A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle My rating: 4 of 5 stars While personally this book had me at “Roddy Doyle,” I tried to read it objectively even though all I had to do was look at the front cover in order to want to read it. Four generations of women unite in [...]

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Lorena on January 12th, 2012

The Road by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 1 of 5 stars The best thing I can say about this book is that I never have to read it again. View all my reviews

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Lorena on January 7th, 2012

Down Time by Lynn Abbey My rating: 4 of 5 stars Last in the series, this one takes place out of Emma’s usual element, and puts her on the road. Or, out to sea, as the case may be – a good portion of this book takes place on a cruise. Emma and her mother [...]

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Lorena on January 2nd, 2012

Rimrunners by C.J. Cherryh My rating: 5 of 5 stars One thing that I kept wondering throughout this book was if Joss Whedon had read this right before writing Firefly, because a lot of the characters in that TV show have very similar speaking patterns to a few of the characters in this book.Another book [...]

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Lorena on December 27th, 2011

Taking Time by Lynn Abbey My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m catching up on some reviews so hopefully won’t sound like I’m parroting the one I just wrote but… having said that, I liked the first book in this series so much I ran out to find the next three.This third book follows Emma [...]

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Lorena on December 27th, 2011

All day yesterday I kept thinking it was Sunday. Does anyone else do that on holidays? Bonus Sunday! Yay! On Christmas Day when we came back home to let the dogs out and have a little nap time, I opted for (instead of napping) adding the knitting books I got for Christmas into my knitting [...]

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