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The Imposter (Nicola)
The Impostor by Damon Galgut
Pages: 249
Finished: Oct. 28, 2008
First Published: Aug. 5, 2008
Genre: literary fiction
Rating: 3.5/5
Reason for Reading: Received a Review Copy from Random House Canada.
First sentence:
The journey was almost over; they were nearly at their destination.
Comments: Adam Napier lives in South Africa just after the abolition of Apartheid. He has always been against Apartheid […]
Popularity: 26% [?]
My Name is Number 4 (Nicola)
My Name is Number 4: A True Story from the Cultural Revolution by Ting-Xing Ye
Pages: 230
Finished: Oct. 26, 2008
First Published: September 2008
Genre: YA, memoir
Rating: 4/5
Reason for Reading: Received a Review Copy from the publisher. Also qualifies for the Canadian Challenge.
First sentence:
The morning of my exile to the prison farm arrived, a characteristic November day in […]
Popularity: 28% [?]
The Shadow of Malabron (Nicola)
The Shadow of Malabron by Thomas Wharton
The Perilous Realm: Book 1
Pages: 385
Finished: Oct. 25, 2008
First Published: August 19, 2008 (Canada, Hardcover) Aug. 4, 2008 (UK & US, paperback)
Genre: YA, fantasy
Rating: 4/5
First sentence:
In a chamber high in a tower a young woman sits at a loom, weaving threads of many colours into a tapestry so large […]
Popularity: 26% [?]
Resistance (Nicola)
Resistance: A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France by Agnes Humbert
Translated by Barbara Mellor
Pages: 270 + 100pgs of extraneous material (Afterward, index, etc.)
First Published: 1946, 1st English translation Sept. 2, 2008
Genre: memoir, WWII
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
Rumours are flying, all flatly contradictory, but it seems clear that the Germans are advancing on all fronts.
Comments: […]
Popularity: 26% [?]
Fractured (Nicola)
Fractured by Karen Slaughter
Special Agent Will Trent, Book 2
Pages: 388
Finished: Oct. 18, 2008
First Published: July 29, 2008
Genre: thriller, mystery
Rating: 3.5/5
Reason for Reading: received a review copy from Random House Canada. Plus I’ve read all the author’s books, this is her latest.
First sentence:
Abigail Campano sat in her car parked on the street outside her own house.
Comments: […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
Bookweird (Nicola)
Bookweird by Paul Glennon
Pages: 250
First Published: Aug. 19, 2008
Genre: YA, fantasy
Rating: 4.5/5
First sentence:
The weekend started out well for Norman Jespers-Wilnius.
Comments: Norman’s behaviour gets himself grounded from his computer for the weekend. Fortunately, he is also an avid reader so he starts the weekend off by picking up the umpteenth book in his favourite series (a […]
Popularity: 24% [?]
Mudbound (Nicola)
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Pages: 324
First Published: March, 2008
Genre: southern fiction, historical fictionRating: 5/5
First sentence:
Henry and I dug the hole seven feet deep.
Comments: A story of 1940s Mississippi. A tale of two families; one black, the other white. Henry McAllen moves from the city with his wife, two young daughters and his cantankerous, racist father to […]
Popularity: 28% [?]
Faces of Fear (Nicola)
Faces of Fear by John Saul
Pages: 324
First Published: Aug. 12, 2008
Genre: psychological suspense, thriller
Rating: 3.5/5
First sentence:
He had to look.
Comments: A plastic surgeon’s wife, a famous model, kills herself because she was disfigured in an horrific accident. A year later plastic surgeon Conrad Dunn and divorced Risa Shaw are married. At the same time a serial […]
Popularity: 26% [?]
Night Runner (Nicola)
Night Runner by Max Turner
Pages: 261
First Published: Sept. 8, 2008 (Canada only)
Genre: YA, paranormal
Rating: 5/5
First sentence:
My name is Daniel Zachariah Thomson.
Comments: Zack is an orphan. His father died in an accident when Zack was four. Zach was there as well and was sent to the hospital in a coma. After awakening from the coma it […]
Popularity: 23% [?]
The Loveliest Woman in America (Nicola)
The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and her Granddaughter’s Search for Home by Bibi Gaston
Pages: 335
First Published: June 10, 2008
Genre: nonfiction, memoir, biography
Rating: 3/5
First sentence:
For forty-three years, all I knew was that Rosamond was beautiful and that she had killed herself.
Comments: This is the story of Rosamond Pinchot told through […]
Popularity: 24% [?]
Previous Stories
- The Imposter (Nicola)
- My Name is Number 4 (Nicola)
- The Shadow of Malabron (Nicola)
- Resistance (Nicola)
- Fractured (Nicola)
- Bookweird (Nicola)
- Mudbound (Nicola)
- Faces of Fear (Nicola)
- Night Runner (Nicola)
- Home (Nicola)
- Getting the Girl (Nicola)
- Jolted (Nicola)
- Starclimber (Nicola)
- The Gargoyle (Nicola)
- Living Dead Girl (Nicola)
- Newton and the Time Machine (Nicola)
- Say Goodbye (Nicola)
- Queen of the Road (Nicola)
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (Nicola)
- The Bleeding Dusk (Nicola)
- Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim (Nicola)
- The Seance (Nicola)
- The Plague of Doves (Nicola)
- Losing It (Nicola)
- The White Mary (Nicola)
- The Vows of Silence (Nicola)
- The Girl in Saskatoon (Nicola)
- Ritual (Nicola)
- The Crossroads (Nicola)
- The Eyes of a King (Nicola)
- The Anatomy of Deception (Nicola)
- The Resurrectionist (Nicola)
- Madapple (Nicola)
- Procession of the Dead (Nicola)
- Empress of Asia (Nicola)
- The Forgery of Venus (Nicola)
- The Monsters of Templeton (Nicola)
- The Arthurian Omen (Nicola)
- Another Thing to Fall (Nicola)
- Black Ships (Nicola)
- A Foreign Affair (Nicola)
- Friend of the Devil (Nicola)
