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The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss

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I once read a book that was over 17 feet long and yet, it only had 82 average size pages. The concept and packaging is what makes this one stand out. You always hear that there are two stories to every relationship, his and hers in this case. What you never come across is a [...]

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Taft 2012 by Jason Heller

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  Taft 2012 by Jason Heller Can you allow yourself to totally suspend disbelief? Are you as tired of the Presidential Rat Race, I mean election, as I am? Let’s go back to that suspending disbelief question, can you really let yourself go? Do you enjoy alternative history or mash-ups? If you are still with [...]

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Finishing 2011 with The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

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Deciding to have some fun with my last read of 2011, I chose Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize winning The Sense of an Ending and it was more apt that I had even realized. Memory is a tricky thing and looking back over the list of books I’ve read this year, some standout and many [...]

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A Very Mark Billingham Christmas

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Or maybe I should really say that it is a very Tom Thorne Christmas. Tom Thorne is the middle-aged UK Detective Inspector that Billingham brings to life in his books and I have been spending some major quality time with him this month. Thorne is a hard man to pin down, even Billingham has described [...]

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The Girl Who Would Speak For The Dead by Paul Elwork

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Emily Stewart discovers that she has the ability to make her ankles crack, producing a strange disembodied sounding noise, the summer she and her twin brother, Michael turn thirteen. What starts out a cool parlor trick to scare the local kids, turns into something darker when adults get involved. In 1925 many families are still [...]

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