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Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
This is a book about a quadriplegic and the woman who teaches him how to LIVE again! Hahahaha, no. It wouldn't be garnering such accolades if it were so Lifetime Movie-ish.This is a book about a...
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Fatal Facade - Linda M James
I really love books about sssssecrets, so it's weird that I don't actively pursue more mysteries because that's sort of their whole point.Better put our best guy on it (that's what she said).And maybe...
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World War Two: A Short History - Norman Stone
This is the longest it has ever taken me to read a 167-page book.Wait, who marched on whom?Everything I know about WWII, I know from Connie Willis' masterful duology, Blackout/All Clear. That is true...
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Tampa - Alissa Nutting, and Boy Toy - Barry Lyga
Sometimes you intentionally read back-to-back books about WWII because you’re trying to learn something, and sometimes you accidentally read back-to-back books about female teachers seducing early...
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Children of God - Mary Doria Russell
My aunt once asked me why I never read the sequel to The Sparrow, since I loved the original so much. But, ok, I loved The Sparrow like I love a dog that dies. I mean, it was AMAZING, but that doesn't...
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Picture Me Gone - Meg Rosoff
This is just...I mean...it's the best. I want to bake it into a cake and then eat it. I want to paper my walls in it. I want to fill a tower full of copies, and then swim in them, like Scrooge McDuck.I...
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Rose Under Fire - Elizabeth Wein
*sits in heap of emotions, looks around bleakly, doesn't cry as hard as That Part In Code Name Verity When That Thing Happens, which she supposes is something*So. Remember how great Code Name Verity...
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Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
I don't read fanfiction because I don't have time, but I DO know that it is a weird thing that exists. DON'T BE OFFENDED, ff afficionados. It's like when people say, The internet is weird, and you're...
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Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
You guys didn't make NEARLY enough fuss over this book when it came out, so I thought it was another Book About Bookstores, The Smell Therein, Etc. And I can't really get down with those. But THIS is...
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The Pact - Jodi Picoult
This wasn't the WORST J-Pic I've ever read.So. Chris and Emily grew up together, like RIGHT NEXT DOOR, and then started dating, and I know they aren't blood siblings but they were raised like siblings,...
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Reviewlettes!
I need to delete some files from my brain, things are starting to bog down in there.Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka BruntI'm in a glass case of emotion.June's BFF is her uncle Finn but then he...
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Bellman & Black - Diane Setterfield
Hey guys, remember The Thirteenth Tale? THAT was a great book. Bellman & Black is kind of good, only it's not. Which sort of makes me thing TTT might not have been as great? I'm an idiot like...
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Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Ursula is the undyingest. Like, she keeps dying and then not dying. It's wacky.She shoots Hitler in the opening pages, the delight of which helps you get through the next bit where you don't know at...
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All Our Yesterdays - Cristin Terrill
Ugh this was so good. I'm kind of over YA dystopia as a Thing, and I nayyyyyver would have picked this up on my own because the cover totally says Hey, You Guys Read Divergent And Liked It, Right? And...
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The River of No Return - Bee Ridgeway
This time-travel book isn't about the plague and none of the main characters dies, AND YET I STILL LIKED IT. I am coming along.Well then. Nicholas Falcott, Marquess of Blackdown, is about to be...
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The Supreme Macaroni Company - Adriana Trigiani
Well this was boring. But I'm bored by books all the time these days, so I can never tell if it's the book at fault or me. So the best I can say is that it is possible this was a very boring book,...
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All The Broken Things - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
This was a weird-ass little book, full of dancing bears and sideshow freaks and meddling assholes who keep trying to get into your mom's pants. It was just this side of heartbreaking, because I could...
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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Matthew Quick
Remember how blamey and vengeful Thirteen Reasons Whywas? And what a hypocrite Hannah was for being all, You people bullied me in often very minor ways, and then enacted her own extremely cruel...
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Burn for Burn - Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
Books that remind me of Thirteen Reasons Why for $400, Alex. (Or, Unintentional Teenage Vengeance-Themed Reading Week.)I was talking to AnimeJune on twitter about TEENAGE REVENGEANCEFULNESS…actually, I...
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This is not a Year In Review
Oh hey, guys. Everyone is posting their best-ofs and year-in-reviews and I am reading the shit out of them but I'm not going to do one because I have one of those coughs that just becomes, like, a part...
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