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Redshirts
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Scalzi, John
Virtually snowbound
, January 04, 2013
Who hasn't thought that the characters in sci-fi movies who wear the red shirts should notice that they're expendable and are usually the first to be eaten by outlandish alien animals, incinerated in intergalactic battles or simply sucked into the endlessness of space? This book is about what happens when they do notice and what it means. Quick moving, funny and even heartwarming, "Redshirts" is a great read.
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Bellwether
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Connie Willis
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, September 25, 2012
I would consider "Bellwether" the gateway book for those not familiar with Connie Willis. Her humor, timing and ability to layer action are unsurpassed, and those who would be scared away by anything labeled science fiction or fantasy will find themselves sucked in to Willis' world. Read this, then "To Say Nothing of the Dog" and work up to the bigtime, "Blackout" and "All Clear."
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Madonnas Of Leningrad
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Debra Dean
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, January 18, 2012
I can scarcely believe this is the author's first novel. It's beautifully written and totally engrossing. I am looking forward to other work by Debra Dean.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog Or How We Found the Bishops Bird Stump at Last
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Connie Willis
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, September 06, 2011
I never enjoyed time travel novels until I read Connie Willis. She uses time travel to flaunt her incredible ability to plot her complex stories leaving the reader exhausted and wildly entertained. And since Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat is one of my favorite books of all time, Willis' take on the era and the lovingly portrayed intersection of time travelers and Jerome's trio (plus dog) is a masterpiece. I have read this at least five times and intend to repeat as needed. As the classic recommendation of a book goes: I envy anyone reading this for the first time.
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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Helen Simonson
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, September 02, 2011
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is a charming book. Perhaps, after a brief glance at it, you suspect it's a little too charming, but instead of falling into the trap of simply glorifying life in a quaint English village, this book is full of many unpleasant characters, family problems and threats to the happiness of our protagonists. And the book achieves those protagonists' destiny through an altogether surprising series of events. Although it has almost nothing in common with the Miss Read books, I think this is one of those "if you liked that, you'll like this" comparisons. It's a great read, it's beautifully written, and, if you are over 60, gloriously reassuring that life still has infinite possibilities.
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Financial Lives of the Poets
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Jess Walter
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, September 01, 2011
What a great read for those of us, who, like the protagonist, are recently laid-off newspaper journalists. His struggles on the professional and home fronts may be strange, convoluted and outright illegal, but they're also read-out-loud funny and all too believable.
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Four Seasons in Rome On Twins Insomnia & the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
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Anthony Doerr
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, January 01, 2011
This is the book I enjoyed reading most this year, the one I couldn't wait to pick up at lunch, on the bus, before bed. And from the comments of people I recommended it to, others felt the same. Anthony Doerr's writing is beautiful, equal to that in his "Memory Wall," and his tale of a year in Rome extremely moving. This is also the kind of book I found compelled to read bits of out loud to anyone nearby and when my husband read the book, he often read the same bits outloud to me and they were still wonderful.
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