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Six Month Absence. Urgh.

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Jan 21, 2011, 12:20 am
Right, so, bad me. It’s been over six months since I posted a review. We won’t even bother counting the latest list entry. Why have I been absent? I can’t say there’s one definitive reason. Life got very busy in the fall and I wasn’t feeling myself, so that’s why I haven’t been around ...
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Hissy Fit

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Jan 21, 2011, 12:17 am
By Mary Kay Andrews Read: January 2011 Rating: Enjoyable Chick lit that isn’t all about the romance! It’s a nice change of pace. Keeley Murdock is an interior designer in the small down of Madison, Georgia. It’s the rehearsal dinner for her marriage to a rich, influential young man from a good...
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Aunty Beeb Doesn't Think You Read Enough

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Nov 20, 2010, 11:31 pm
From a Facebook note: Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an ex...
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The Linnet

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Jun 23, 2010, 5:14 pm
By Elizabeth English (aka Elizabeth Minogue) Read: June 2010 Rating: Sigh. I have been waiting to read this book since I read The Prince (Jan ’06). I loved that so much that I immediately set my sights on the only other book under this name. Alas, The Linnet does not live up to The Prince’s
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Me on Jezebel on The Song of the Lioness

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Jun 21, 2010, 4:25 pm
I’m not a fan of Jezebel.com, though I do wind up there sometimes. Sreya sent me a very me-oriented link, however: Alanna: The First Adventure: For The Crossdressing Knight In Every Girl. Jezebel takes a look at YA lit they loved as kids, and evaluate them now. (Not a new concept, but something th...
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Samurai Swords

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Jun 16, 2010, 3:06 am
By Clive Sinclaire Read: May 2010 Ratings: Pleasurable My senior thesis was a story rooted in Japanese mythology surrounding sword smithing. I spent years working on this thing, and have done a lot of research. Of course, I wasn’t able to lay my hands on anything really useful in the months lead...
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Graylight

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Jun 1, 2010, 6:59 pm
The field of comics, also sometimes known as graphic novels, is dominated by male creators and readers. However, there's been increasing push in the last few decades by women to enter the field and make their mark. Though comics drawn by women are gaining popularity, most are classified as "indie," ...
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d e a d . w i n t e r

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - May 24, 2010, 11:10 pm
Zombie apocalypse. The scenario has been reworked again and again, and has become pretty predictable. Something spreads through the population, turning almost everyone into shambling, undead creatures in search of braaaaains. A ragtag group of unlikely companions hole up together to beat back the ho...
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The Bodyguard

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - May 19, 2010, 11:01 pm
By Joan Johnston Not Read: May 2010 Rating: Ungh Truly disappointing. I wanted to flesh out my Men In Kilts category, and I just couldn’t bring myself to finish this. Scotland, approximately Regency-era-ish? Hard to know. I wasn’t too keen on the opening chapter, but, hey, openers are hard. Kitt...
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Housekeeping & Silly Things

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - May 7, 2010, 4:04 am
First, I want to point out that I’ve added some categories. Viking Hoards For all your Viking (and SPAM) needs! Book-in-a-Minute One of my favorite features over at Rinkworks, their Book-a-Minutes are the ultimate cheat sheet. Sometimes I quote them, sometimes I do my own little script-style mocki...
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Ella Enchanted

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - May 7, 2010, 3:03 am
By Gail Carson Levine Read: Repeatedly since 1997. Most recently, April 2010 Rating: J’adore Some books are like old friends. It doesn’t matter where you left off, or how long it’s been, you fall right back into friendship as soon as you meet up. Ella Enchanted is one of my favorite books. I c...
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Summers at Castle Auburn

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Apr 27, 2010, 4:15 am
By Sharon Shinn Read: Again and again, starting in 2002, now April 2010 Rating: LOVE I love, love, love this book. It is one of the first Shinn books I ever read, and it was serendipitous the way I found it. We were on vacation in California, and the only redeeming quality of the crappy little town ...
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Rapunzel: The One With The Hair

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Apr 19, 2010, 2:31 am
By Wendy Mass Read: April 2010 Rating: Sweet This is a really cute book, best for younger readers. Disney’s new Rapunzel movie, Tangled, is coming out in a year or so, making this a timely choice. It’s told in diary form, which allows the kids to speak like kids. Rapunzel has grown up wi...
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Defiant Spitfire

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Apr 18, 2010, 2:49 am
By Kay McMahon Not Read: April 2010 Rating: AUGH Coming out of Beyond Heaving Bosoms, I naturally wanted to indulge in some of the best/worst of the genre. I swapped for this book a short while ago and figured it was as good a place to start as any. But the Smart Bitches have just given me a
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Beyond Heaving Bosoms

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Apr 18, 2010, 2:07 am
By Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell Read: April 2010 Rating: BWAHA! By god, I love the Smart Bitches! Their fabulously hilarious blog, SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com was the perfect platform for their snarkage, but it couldn’t really contain everything about the genre. Blogs are topical, this book is ...
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Princess Academy

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Apr 18, 2010, 12:50 am
By Shannon Hale Read: April 2010 Rating: Really sweet I’ve been wanting to read this for a long while, but never enough to get around to buying it. Luckily, my bestie had a copy she let me borrow. Very, very glad I got to read it at last. Miri lives with her family on top of a mountain, where
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The Merry Gentry Series, books 6-8

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Apr 8, 2010, 2:22 am
By Laurell K Hamiltom Read: April 2010 Rating: Phwoar I tried really hard not to let them all run together, but they did. Rather than try to pull the last three books apart, I’m just going to shove ‘em in one post and mention what lasting impressions I have. A Lick of Frost I was all re...
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Least I Could Do

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Mar 25, 2010, 10:59 pm
By Ryan Sohmer & Lar deSouza Read: March 2010 Rating: W00T!! http://leasticoulddo.com/ Absolutely love this one. A webcomic that revolves around a manslut named Rayne, the kind of guy you should hate… but I think I have a little crush on him instead. Rayne is a guy in his mid 20s, and he is a ...
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Mistral's Kiss

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Mar 24, 2010, 10:58 pm
By Laurell K. Hamilton Read: March 2010 Rating: Slam First, I would have to declare that Mistral is not terribly important to this volume. Let it be known that the titles are farking arbitrary. (Just to spite me, Lick of Frost is going to be ALL ABOUT FROST, I just know it.) Anyway, Goddess and God...
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A Stroke of Midnight

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Mar 22, 2010, 7:05 pm
By Laurell K. Hamilton Read: March 2010 Rating: Whirlwind Time moves differently in the sithen. Merry says, “I wish we had more time!” and suddenly they do. Time is moving glacially outside the hill, giving them all they need… to catch a killer. The book begins with a press confere...
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Seduced by Moonlight

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Mar 15, 2010, 7:58 pm
By Laurell K. Hamilton Read: March 2010 Rating: Engrossing First, let me just say that that cover is a total plot-tease. It shows a woman’s belly, with a nice little round to it, and her hand just so… The series is about a woman trying to get pregnant. You are plot-teasing me, you stupid...
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A Caress of Twilight

R G posted an article on Reading Backwards - Mar 15, 2010, 7:44 pm
By Laurell K. Hamilton Read: March 2010 Rating: Engrossing To be perfectly honest, I’m going to speed through this review, and #3, Seduced by Moonlight. These books slam into each other and it gets hard to pull them apart. Anyway, we now know the plot arc for the whole series. Merry’s ...
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