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Kill Alex Cross
Kill Alex Cross: Alex Cross Series #18
by James Patterson
a mistitled disappointment (2/11/2012)
Kill Alex Cross is the 18th in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series. The action starts immediately with the kidnapping from the Branaff School of Zoe and Ethan Coyle, the children of President Edward Coyle and First Lady Regina. This is followed very quickly by a cyanide …more
The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett
uncommonly funny! (1/26/2012)
The Uncommon Reader is a novella by novelist and playwright, Alan Bennett. The story starts with the Queen coming across the mobile library van parked near Buckingham Palace, where Norman, a young man from the kitchens, is choosing a book. After making small talk with the …more
Dexter Is Delicious
Dexter Is Delicious
by Jeff Lindsay
Delicious (1/25/2012)
Dexter is Delicious is the fifth of the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay. Dexter, new father of Lily Anne, is dazed to find he no longer interested in indulging his Dark Passenger’s needs: a bit of a dilemma as Astor and Cody still need mentoring for their own needs. This new …more
The Double Comfort Safari Club
The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel
by Alexander Mccall Smith
a pleasure to read (1/8/2012)
The Double Comfort Safari Club is the 11th in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith. Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the best detective agency in Botswana, is kept busy with fraudulent fiancées, adulterous (or not) part-time reverends, jealous …more
Dexter by Design
Dexter by Design
by Jeff Lindsay
murder as art (1/8/2012)
Dexter by Design is the 4th of the Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay. After his honeymoon in Paris, where a bizarre limb-mutilating art installation had Rita awed and Dexter intrigued, Dexter is back at work in Miami. As Sergeant Debbie drags him along to investigate the …more
Dexter in the Dark
Dexter in the Dark: A Novel
by Jeff Lindsay
Plenty of fun (1/8/2012)
Dexter in the Dark is the third in Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series. Dexter Morgan, our favourite serial killer of serial killers, is about to get married. His intended, Rita, is in the throes of wedding and honeymoon plans; Astor and Cody are demanding some mentoring of the …more
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
heartwarming (1/8/2012)
The Secret Life of Bees is the first novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, this is the story of Lily Melissa Owens, who lives on a peach farm in South Carolina. At four years of age, Lily accidentally killed her mother. Her father is a harsh and cruel man, and Lily craves …more
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
a very interesting read (12/26/2011)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is the 7th non-fiction book by Barbara Kingsolver. Co-written with her husband, Stephen L. Hopp, and her daughter, Camille Kingsolver, this book details her family’s experiences during the year they decided to become locavores, trying to obtain …more
Flash and Bones
Flash and Bones: A Temperance Brennan Novel
by Kathy Reichs
filleted Tempe Brennan (12/12/2011)
Flash and Bones is the 14th in the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs. Just back from Hawaii, Tempe is called to a landfill site in Charlotte adjacent to the NASCAR circuit, where a body is encased in asphalt in a rusting metal drum. It’s almost race week, so the …more
The Sign of The Book
The Sign of The Book: A Cliff Janeway Bookman Novel
by John Dunning
great climax (12/5/2011)
The Sign of the Book is the 4th book in the Cliff Janeway series by John Dunning. Cliff agrees to help Erin determine if her estranged childhood friend, Laura Marshall, really killed her husband, or confessed to protect her troubled son. The tempter for Cliff is the …more
The Bookwoman's Last Fling
The Bookwoman's Last Fling
by John Dunning
Janeway's last fling too (12/5/2011)
The Bookwoman’s Last Fling is the 5th (and, so far, last) in John Dunning’s Cliff Janeway series. Cliff travels to Idaho, ostensibly to appraise Candice Geiger’s book collection, after the death of her thoroughbred trainer husband, H.R. Geiger, and to ascertain which books …more
Lost In A Good Book
Lost In A Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel
by Jasper Fforde
hilarious (11/27/2011)
Lost in a Good Book is the 2nd book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. Fresh from her adventures in The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next is enjoying married life until she is informed that her husband, Landen Parke-Laine, died 38 years ago: suddenly, he only exists in …more
The Charming Quirks of Others
The Charming Quirks of Others: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
by Alexander Mccall Smith
thoroughly enjoyable (11/27/2011)
The Charming Quirks of Others is the 7th in the Isabel Dalhousie series by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel has quite a bit on her plate: getting another edition of the Review of Applied Ethics published; looking into a poison-pen letter making accusations about applicants …more
Gourmet Rhapsody
Gourmet Rhapsody
by Muriel Barbery
a treat (11/13/2011)
The Gourmet is the first novel by Muriel Barbery. Pierre Arthens, France’s greatest food critic, is dying. As he lies on his deathbed in his Rue de Grenelle apartment, he is tormented by his inability to recall the most delicious food to pass his lips, long before he became …more
Look Me in the Eye
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
interesting, insightful, funny (11/13/2011)
Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Asperger’s is the first book by John Elder Robison. Not diagnosed with Asperger’s until he was forty, Robison describes himself as a misfit. In this book he tells of growing up in an extremely dysfunctional family. Some of the story has been …more
The Enchantress of Florence
The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman Rushdie
a very enjoyable Rushdie (11/7/2011)
The Enchantress of Florence is the 10th book by Salman Rushdie. Set amongst the extremes and excesses of Renaissance Florence and in the city of Fatehpur Sikri in Mughal India, it tells the story of a hidden Mughal princess, Princess Qara Köz, the Lady Black Eyes, also …more
Catching Fire
Catching Fire: The Second Book of the Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
fast paced (10/16/2011)
Catching Fire is the second book of the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Set some six months after the end of the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are required to take part in the Victory Tour through each of the Districts to keep the power of the …more
The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
just wonderful (10/16/2011)
The Eyre Affair is the first novel by Jasper Fforde, and the first in the Thursday Next series. Thursday Next is a SpecOps 27 operative, a LiteraTec, who deals in crimes against literature. The novel is set in 1985, when England has been at war with Russia over Crimea for …more
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable
by John Boyne
not as good as the Book Thief (9/7/2011)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is the 5th novel by Irish author John Boyne. It is a holocaust tale from a different perspective: that of the naïve and innocent young son of a concentration camp commandant. He asks his father when they arrive if his father has done something …more
The Dog Who Came in from the Cold
The Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A Corduroy Mansions Novel
by Alexander Mccall Smith
leaves you feeling warm and snug (9/7/2011)
The Dog Who Came In From The Cold is the second in the Corduroy Mansions series by Alexander McCall Smith. Once again we join the people of Corduroy Mansions and their friends. An acquaintance who works for MI6 visits wine merchant William French, and his Pimlico terrier, …more

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