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2010 Books to Read

2010-01-03T05:23:22Z

I'm tagging this as my 2010 To-Read list, but that's not actually what it is. It's actually those titles from my 2009 list that I didn't read, and that I would eventually like to, and may in fact do so in 2010. So the "I Might Read These in 2010" ...

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Books I Read in 2009

2009-12-31T21:39:37Z

2009 was a very good reading year for me! I read a great number of books, something I hadn't managed to do in several years, and found some great new series to invest my interest and time in. All in all, I don't have very many reading regrets from...

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Post #55: The 13 Clocks

2009-11-14T05:06:04Z

Post number fifty-five is for James Thurber's The 13 Clocks. This is the second book I've read by this author (the first was The Wonderful O), and it, like the previous book, is rather nonsensical in a way. In fact, I don't really have that much...

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Post #54: The Black Circle

2009-11-11T23:40:32Z

Post number fifty-four is for the fifth 39 Clues book, The Black Circle. This book picks up pretty much directly after the previous one. Dan and Amy are given a clue and a deadline - 36 hours - so leave Nellie behind in Egypt and set out for Ru...

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Post #53: Vacations from Hell

2009-11-06T06:22:38Z

Post number fifty-three is for a compilation of short stories entitled Vacations from Hell. It features stories by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Mlynowski. I have only read books by two of these authors mys...

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Post #52: Sphinx's Princess

2009-11-03T03:40:43Z

Post number fifty-two is for Esther Friesner's Sphinx's Princess, which is a fictional account of the life of Nefertiti. This books is semi-based on fact, but mostly made up, as hardly anything (aside from the names of Nefertiti's father, stepmo...

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Post #51: The Hobbit

2009-10-16T21:20:45Z

Post number 51 is for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. It's a book that's been on my to-read list for the past three years, so it's nice to finally scratch that one off. I wish I'd read this one prior to The Lord of the Rings books, because it was e...

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Post #50: Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn

2009-10-11T22:18:28Z

Post number fifty is for Ridley Pearson's Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn, the second book in his Kingdom Keepers series. I'd read the first book a couple years ago and was really hoping we'd see a sequel, as there were plenty of loose ends t...

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Post #49: The Wyrm King

2009-09-27T04:07:57Z

Post number forty-nine is for Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi's Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Book Three: The Wyrm King. Brief spoilers follow. S P O I L E R S This book picks up almost directly after the second book in the series....

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Post #48: Neverwhere

2009-09-24T04:18:20Z

Post number forty-eight is for Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, which has been on my to-read list for the past four years at least. I enjoyed the book quite a bit and have put the BBC production of the TV show (which was created first) into my Block...

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