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12:25 pm 27 September 2013

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan

Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman, Skottie Young

Barnes and Noble is having their Big Fall Sale on 300 best sellers. Some of the newer releases don't quite make it to bargain territory, but are still mighty tempting. If Amazon matches the prices I know I may be eating Ramen for the next week to finance my book binge.

Here are the highlights (these are all books I have read and enjoyed or desperately want to read):

New Releases:

Night Film: A Novel - Marisha Pessl

$6.49 B&N, Amazon

Doctor Sleep: A Novel - Stephen King

$7.49 B&N, Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan

$6.49 B&N, Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

MaddAddam: A Novel - Margaret Atwood

$6.49 B&N, Amazon

Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman

$4.49 B&N, Amazon ($5.99 add audio)

Bargains (under $5):

The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

$4.99 B&N, $9.99 Amazon

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

$4.99 B&N, Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

$4.99 B&N, Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) - George R.R. Martin

$4.99 B&N, Amazon

If you have been hiding under a rock now's your chance to read the actual book.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

$4.99 B&N, Amazon ($3.95 add audio)

Ready Player One: A Novel - Ernest Cline

$4.99 B&N, Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

Sharp Objects: A Novel - Gillian Flynn

$4.99 B&N, $7.99 Amazon

The Shining - Stephen King

$3.99 B&N, Amazon

Honorable Mentions (not new, not under $5 (but not bad) & I LOVED them):

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us - Michael Moss

$7.49 B&N, $11.99 Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg

$7.49 B&N, $12.99 Amazon ($3.95 add audio)

The Dinner - Herman Koch

$6.49 B&N, Amazon ($4.49 add audio)

The Paris Wife: A Novel - Paula McLain

$5.99 B&N, $8.55 Amazon ($3.95 add audio)

The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel - Adam Johnson

$5.99 B&N, Amazon ($12.99 add audio)

Defending Jacob: A Novel - William Landay

$5.99 B&N, Amazon ($3.99 add audio)

7:00 pm 30 August 2013

The impatience of the narrator is contagious. I could not wait for this book to end, and found myself checking the percent complete every time the narrator broke into the story with his pleas to burn the book.

7:00 pm 30 August 2013

The impatience of the narrator is contagious. I could not wait for this book to end, and found myself checking the percent complete every time the narrator broke into the story with his pleas to burn the book.

7:00 pm 24 June 2013

I should have known better. This book strips out all of the dark suspense and depth of the original and replaces it with teen melodrama. On the plus side it is short.

7:00 pm 26 May 2013

The laundry list style was pretty mind-numbing at times.

7:00 pm 24 May 2013

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1) - Lisa See

3 1/2 starsThe historical period as always is always well researched and detailed, and the characterizations are excellent. Unfortunately the ending seems somewhat abrupt, and the pacing lags at times. For the most part the book is engaging, but it just doesn't resonate with me the way Lisa See's other books have.*The kindle version has a handful of copy editing errors.

7:00 pm 24 May 2013

3 1/2 starsThe historical period as always is always well researched and detailed, and the characterizations are excellent. Unfortunately the ending seems somewhat abrupt, and the pacing lags at times. For the most part the book is engaging, but it just doesn't resonate with me the way Lisa See's other books have.*The kindle version has a handful of copy editing errors.

7:00 pm 19 May 2013

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation - Michael Pollan

Long winded, repetitive, and pretentious. If he had cut it by 90 something percent and done it as a NYT magazine piece it would have worked far better. Considering the utter simplicity of the four styles on which he focused, a few pages each would have been more to the point and digestible.

7:00 pm 19 May 2013

Long winded, repetitive, and pretentious. If he had cut it by 90 something percent and done it as a NYT magazine piece it would have worked far better. Considering the utter simplicity of the four styles on which he focused, a few pages each would have been more to the point and digestible.

7:00 pm 24 March 2013

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1) - Deborah Harkness

The premise and magical world were intriguing, but Matthew and Diana's relationship held far too many echoes of Edward and Bella for me to enjoy the romantic thread.

7:00 pm 27 January 2013

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure - William Goldman

If you are a complete fan of the movie, you probably don't want to read the book. It made me very sad. Off to watch the movie now.

7:00 pm 2 December 2012

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) - Hilary Mantel, Simon Slater

This is one book that suffers in the audio format. There are too many characters (all named Thomas or Ann, it seems) to keep everything straight without the ability to flip back and forth.

7:00 pm 23 November 2012

The story of a wronged wife in first person - snide, bitchy, & sometimes grating. For all Penelope's discontent and claims that Odysseus is a liar and a cheat, she always seems to give him the benefit of the doubt. The chouruses were probably the most enjoyable part of the book and provide an interesting counterpoint to Penelope's narration.

7:00 pm 23 November 2012

The story of a wronged wife in first person - snide, bitchy, & sometimes grating. For all Penelope's discontent and claims that Odysseus is a liar and a cheat, she always seems to give him the benefit of the doubt. The chouruses were probably the most enjoyable part of the book and provide an interesting counterpoint to Penelope's narration.

7:00 pm 12 November 2012

Fat Vampire (Audio) - Adam Rex, Kirby Heyborne

Make it stop... Oh look there's the stop button!

7:00 pm 10 November 2012

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis

I had heard the book was very interesting even if you were not a baseball fan. No, you really do need to be a baseball fan to enjoy this book.

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