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Maxine posted City of the Sun, by David Levien | 1 hour ago
City of the Sun by David Levien (Bantam/Transworld UK; Random House US). I wasn’t too sure about this book after reading the first two chapters, which describe in present tense the disappearance of a young teenage boy, Jamie, while on his early morning paper round in his neighbourhood suburb of...
Maxine posted Three Weeks to Say Goodbye, by C. J. Box | Dec 24, 2009
“A page-turner”, “unputdownable” and a blurb from Lee Child (“solid gold A-list must-read”) are all somewhat clichés of crime fiction, but in the case of Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C. J. Cox (Corvus), more than justified. From the first paragraph of the novel, when Denver...
Amy posted Let the x-mas crafting begin! | Nov 30, 2009
As a craft-procrastinator (why I procrastinate on something I love doing? no idea.) Thanksgiving signifies that x-mas is but a month away and if you haven't started making your gifts yet, you need to ASAP. Since this year I am very, very, very, seriously, poor and unemployed all x-mas presents will...
Maxine posted Sworn to Silence, by Linda Castillo | Nov 21, 2009
I very much enjoyed this book. I shouldn’t have done if I am logical, as it is not only about a serial killer, but it concerns the murders of young women and girls in very gruesome, slow ways – topics on which I have more than once gone on record as saying “enough, already!”. So why did I...
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