the booklog

I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Archive for July, 2008

This is a strange book. Mostly, it was hard reading and boring. But then, the authors note at the end mentioned Amelia Earhart’s famous flight, and the rumor that it was actually a recognizance mission for the government.
This, after the book ends with the main character about to go off to Germany, in the late […]

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THE CHOICE - Nicholas Sparks

** spoilers ** I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting, but this certainly wasn’t it.
The phrase on the back was something like “How far would you go to hold on to the hope of love?” and that, in itself, I kind […]

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I thought the premise of the book was very good. A 14 year old girl wakes up one morning and her entire family is gone. The investigation turns up nothing and the story takes place twenty-five years later.
I also thought the narrative style was quite good. Even though the story was essentially about the […]

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This was a strange book for me… although I liked the intimacy of the writing style, and the feeling of getting to know the character… I never came to like, nor care about, said character.
It was well written, however.

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LAYING THE GHOST - Judy Astley

Meh.
I didn’t connect with the characters… and the blurb on the back was wildly misleading.

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