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Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

Liza, October 4, 2008

I loved this humorous and touching story of a city girl who dreams of having a farm....and gets one. Fifty acres worth! Hilarious situations with animals and neighbors are intertwined with touching antedotes about life, love and loss.
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City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
City of Thieves: A Novel

Liza, August 24, 2008

Set during the 1941 winter seige of St. Petersburg, an unlikely duo find themselves in prison, only to be released the next day with a special mission: to find a dozen eggs for a wedding cake. If they fail their mission, they will be executed. This is no easy task in a city of starving people who have long killed family pets and are now tearing books apart for the protein in the binding glue. A story of terror, bravery, friendship and humor, this was a fabulous read.
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The Blonde by Duane Swierczynski
The Blonde

Liza, July 24, 2008

Wow! This book grabs you with the best opening sequence I've read in a long time:
"I poisoned your drink."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me."
"Um, I don't think I did."
The blonde raised her cosmopolitan. "Cheers."

What follows is a frantic, dark, wildly-paced novel that is a cross between Raymond Chandler and The Twilight Zone. Swierczynski has a great warped sense of humor in this great noir-crime story.
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Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred: 25th Anniversary Edition

Liza, July 5, 2008

Part science-fiction, part historical novel, Octavia E. Butler has her heroine, an African American woman living in 1976, time-travel to antebellum Maryland. A first person's account of slavery from a 20th century viewpoint. Facinating, I couldn't put it down.
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Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel by Marie Phillips
Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel

Liza, June 16, 2008

A laugh-out-loud book for anyone who knows anything about Greek Mythology. Imagine the Greek gods living together in a dilapidated London rowhouse, which they've been in since 1665 "when the Plague caused property values to hit rock bottom." They are bickering amongst each other and bored silly on Earth. A mortal couple, Alice and Neil, enter the story and all hell (literally) breaks loose. Funny and entertaining, each god's personality quirks are a hoot.
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