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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Martha Grimes

Tags: fiction children family culture crime police exploration forensic @finished2007

Description: An interesting book that twists a bit when the police try to find a missing child and crackAn interesting book that twists a bit when the police try to find a missing child and crack down on a pedophilia ring....

2007-10-02

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Orson Scott Card

Tags: fiction family adventure capitalism contemporary conservatism @finished2007

Description: Loved it! It kept me interest through the whole book, as my favourites all do: and it evenLoved it! It kept me interest through the whole book, as my favourites all do: and it even kept me annoyed. Once I figured out his real point, I realized its profound implications.
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2007-09-23

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Richard Adams

Tags: fantasy adventure shortstories animals ethics life/death @finished2007

Description: Loved it. This book added to my understanding of Adams' world and how things molded together.Loved it. This book added to my understanding of Adams' world and how things molded together. As with the best of my books, I was said when it was finished....

2007-05-01

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Kathy Reichs

Tags: mystery adventure @finished2007 temperance_brennan

2007-05-01

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Ursula K. LeGuin

Tags: spirituality art scifi poverty queer forgiveness @finished2007

Description: An excellent book, as most of LeGuin's are. It was the story of a person discovering newAn excellent book, as most of LeGuin's are. It was the story of a person discovering new faith on a new world, of friendship and love and passion....

2007-04-09

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Authors: Anne McCaffrey Elizabeth A. Scarborough

Tags: fantasy future time @finished2006 mccaffrey unicorns

Description: I did not like this audio-book as much as some of the others that I've listened to. I thinkI did not like this audio-book as much as some of the others that I've listened to. I think perhaps because there was too much fantasy and not enough science fiction; and the authors tried to slip in too many dry little puns. These did not make it more fun, but were distracting. I did not get a good sense of the plot bedause other things kiept interfering. I will try it again as a regular book....

2006-09-28

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Authors: Kevin J. Anderson Frank Herbert Brian Herbert

Tags: future scifi adventure philosophy politics desert @finished2006 arrakis pleasure

Description: Another audiobook, this one is great: at least the first story was awesome. I listened to itAnother audiobook, this one is great: at least the first story was awesome. I listened to it driving home to Toronto. The first story was an early version of the Dune story, and focused on some of relationships in the books. It has been a while since I read it, and this was a a great re-introduction. Unfortunately, the other chapters were snippets of other scenes, so they did not build nearly as well without intimate knowledge of the books, which I've lost over the last decades. But it did stir me to re-read the old books and read the ones I've not yet discovered....

2006-09-12

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Type: documentary

Status: finished

Author: Glenn Greenwald

Tags: history war philosophy law @finished2006 bipartisan

Description: An interesting book; it focuses on one element of difficulty with the Bush administration:An interesting book; it focuses on one element of difficulty with the Bush administration: how the president has adpted primary control of the government and effectively established himself as an elected monarch...

2006-08-30

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Dan Brown

Tags: art church culture argumentative @finished2006 globalism

Description: We've all heard about it. I read it while I was sick, over about two days. A good way toWe've all heard about it. I read it while I was sick, over about two days. A good way to spend a virus....

2006-06-14