Farworld, Book 1: Water Keep (Literary Feline)
Far World, Book 1: Water Keep
by J. Scott Savage
Shadow Mountain, September 2008 (ARE)
Fantasy (YA); 419 pgs
One of the first things I do when I crack open a book is to read the dedication. This one I read out loud to my husband and he immediately zeroed in on the mention of solving Ultima games. […]
Popularity: 7% [?]
A Fraction of the Whole (raidergirl3)
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
I first heard of this big ole book when bookfool mentioned it, then kookiejar loved it. It’s big in size (531 pages) and ambition. Toltz covers a lot of material here, and I’ll try to summarize a bit.
Jasper Dean is writing his family’s colourful history in Australia, […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
The Forgery of Venus (3M)
Chaz Wilmot is (by choice) an unsuccessful painter doing primarily commercial work. He obviously has more talent than what he’s using, and this fact is a constant source of frustration for his ex-wife and others around him. As part of a medical study, Chaz starts taking Salvinorin A, a drug being tested for its effects […]
Popularity: 32% [?]
The Forgery of Venus (Nicola)
The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
Pages: 318
Finished: Mar. 21, 2008
First Published: April, 2008
Genre: psychological suspense
Rating: 3.5/5
First Sentence:
Wilmot showed me that one, back in college; he’d written it out in his casually elegant calligraphy and had it up on the wall of his room.
Reason for Reading: I received this as an ARC.
Comments: Chaz Wilmot is […]
Popularity: 32% [?]
A Foreign Affair (Nicola)
A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock
Pages: 331
Finished: Apr. 24, 2008
First Published: Apr. 2008
Genre: historical fiction
Rating: 3/5
First Sentence:
“Would you be kind enough to tell me where they keep people’s bodies,” I said.
Reason for Reading: Received this ARC from Harper Collins Canada
Comments: The year is 1837 and Liberty Lane receives a note informing her that her father […]
Popularity: 26% [?]
The Fisher Boy (Literary Feline)
Rating: 3.5 Stars (Good+)
First Sentence: In Provincetown, I felt enveloped in the shivery skin of a paranoid, all goose-bumps and heartbeat.
Comments: Mark Winslow, son of a jazz singer turned painter, gave up his day job to try his hand at acting. He takes his act to Cape Cod, settling into Provincetown where […]
Popularity: 31% [?]
Friend of the Devil (Nicola)
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Seventeenth in the Inspector Banks series
Pages: 372
Finished: Nov. 12, 2007
Reason for Reading: I received an Advanced Reading Edition. This is also on my From the Stacks challenge list.
First Published: 2007 in Canada, 2008 in U.S.
Genre: thriller
Rating: 5/5
First Sentence:
She might have been staring out to sea, at the blurred […]
Popularity: 15% [?]
Friend of the Devil (Literary Feline)
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
William Morrow, 2008 (ARE)
Mystery; 372 pgs
Completed: 10/28/2007
Rating: 4 Stars
First Sentence: She might have been staring out to sea, at the blurred line where the gray water meets the gray sky.
Reason for Reading: I requested to preview this book through Harper Collins First Look Program. It sounded […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
Friend of the Devil (Amy)
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Advance Reading Copy
372 pages
I had never read anything by Peter Robinson before I snagged this ARC in the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program. I am pleased to say that I have found another author that I enjoy reading.
The story opens with a quadripalegic woman being murdered near Whitby. A young […]
Popularity: 16% [?]
Firefly Lane (Amy)
I had a love-hate relationship with this book. I loved the fact that we see Tully and Kate from a young age and we get a sense of what makes each girl tick.
I hate the fact that Tully is such a selfish jerk and I find it hard to believe that anyone could maintain a […]
Popularity: 31% [?]
