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Jan 24, 2012, 5:22 pm
Title: Breathers- A Zombie’s Lament
Author(s): S.G. Browne
Genre: Horror – Black Comedy
Rating: 3 Stars
Just because you die doesn’t mean life is over. Imagine an alternate universe where zombie’s are a part of every day life, and find themselves outsiders in a world that loathes them more ... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 5:32 pm
Conspirata (A Novel of Ancient Rome #2) by Robert Harris
Beginning in 63 B.C.E. and told by Cicero’s slave secretary, Tiro, this complex tale continues to chronicle Cicero’s political career as he charms, co-opts, and bribes his way into the exalted position of consul, ruler of Rome. Although C... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2011, 6:53 pm
All apologies to everyone waiting for reviews, guests posts, etc. I came down with something mysterious and terrible, which doctors have yet been able to fix. So many antibiotics and hundreds of dollars later and I am still not better. So while my health is crap, my coping skills have gotten bett... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 10:01 pm
Title: Changeling Moon
Author(s): Dani Harper
Genre: Fiction – Supernatural Romance
Finished: June 15, 2011
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Zoe Tyler is an editor with a unique gift that allows her to see things happening in her head. Desperate to start a new life far from her reputation and the stresses of t... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 11:38 am
Title: Soldier of Rome: The Legionary
Author(s): James Mace
Genre: Fiction – Historical
Finished: July 19, 2011
Rating: 2.5 Stars
Varus, give me back my legions!
Anyone who knows anything about Roman history has heard those words. Just the same, anyone who knows anything about Roman history can... Comment - Like
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May 22, 2011, 1:11 am
Changeling Dream by Dani Harper
In times of stress Jillian Descharme has always found calm in her dream of a great white wolf with haunting blue eyes. But she is startled when the visions return and this time seem so real. Late at night he comes to her, speaks to her, touches her. It’s almost as ... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 11:25 pm
Title: A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World
Author(s): Rana Mitter
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: October 19, 2010
Rating: 3 Stars
In A Bitter Revolution, Rana Mitter looks into China’s past to explain how modern China developed. He chooses as his focus the May ... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 11:18 pm
Title: Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Author(s): Paul A. Cohen
Genre: Nonfiction- History
Finished: September 21, 2010
Rating: 3 Stars
In Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past, Paul A. Cohen contri... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 1:17 am
Title: “When I Can Read My Title Clear”: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South
Author(s): Janet Duitsman Cornelius
Genre: Nonfiction – American
Finished: March 10, 2011
Rating: 3 Stars
In “When I Can Read My Title Clear”, Janet Duitsman Cornelius states that though much ... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 1:06 am
Title: Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865
Author(s): Carol Wilson
Genre: Nonfiction – American
Finished: February 26, 2011
Rating: 3.5 Stars
In Freedom at Risk, Carol Wilson notes that though there is a substantial body of scholarship devoted to the diverse exper... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 12:59 am
Title: Celia, a Slave
Author(s): Melton A. McLaurin
Genre: Nonfiction- American
Finished: February 10, 2011
Rating: 3 Stars
Rejecting the big man and big event approach many historians adopt when defining any era, Melton A. McLaurin uses the story of a young slave girl accused of murdering her whit... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 12:50 am
Title: The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
Author(s): Betty Wood
Genre: Nonfiction- American
Finished: January 19, 2011
Rating: 2 Stars
Betty Wood’s concise The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies examines the early roo... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 12:34 am
Title: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Author(s): Max Brooks
Genre: Fiction – Horror
Finished: March, 2010
Rating: 5 Stars
This is how zombie horror should be. Or horror in general, for that matter. For some reason I have yet to wrap my head around, the entire horror genre has ju... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2011, 11:36 pm
Title: Lenore: Noogies
Author(s): Roman Dirge
Genre: Graphic Novel
Finished: March 13, 2010
Rating: 4 Stars
I like cute and disturbing. They don’t call me Morbid Romantic for nothing, right? Which is why dead and macabre little Lenore is just up my ally. I admit that I have never been much int... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2011, 11:10 pm
So… I now have a Master’s degree in history. These last two years have been insanely busy, stressful, but fulfilling. I can certainly say that I have become a smarter person due to it, and while I think some of Graduate school is intended to break you, overall the experience was well worth it.... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2010, 10:24 pm
No. I am not dead, I promise. Otherwise I am typing this from the great, dark beyond.
In any case, I am not gone and have not abandoned this site. I am just in Graduate school and haven’t had the time to do a single thing other than work, sleep, and every now and then eat. I promise that I ... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2010, 2:47 am
Yoplait and MyBlogSpark were kind enough to offer me a “Nourish Your Inner Goddess” gift pack, as well as two coupons for their new Greek yogurt all for free. I was absolutely delighted to receive the gift pack because it gave me a chance to spoil myself.
My favorite part of the pack is the ve... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2010, 3:59 pm
True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) (From publisher)
Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies, telepaths—True Blood has it all. In a world where supernatural creatures coexist with human beings, Sookie Stackhouse and ... Comment - Like
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May 25, 2010, 4:52 pm
Wendy’s Minding Spot
Over the Edge Book Reviews
Pages
Anna’s Book Blog
500 Followers Contest
Shut Up! I’m Reading
The Tome Traveller
Ms. Magoo Reads
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May 25, 2010, 2:53 pm
TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” fr... Comment - Like
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May 25, 2010, 2:46 pm
I do have a list of books to review that I hope to get done… and slowly turn out. I won’t post them all in the same day because that would just be insane.
Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 10) by Charlaine Harris (Purchased from Barnes and Noble)
After enduring torture and the loss ... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 7:55 pm
Wow, can you believe we are back again? After how long? I don’t even know.
Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr
Katie’s Book Blog
Blood Born by Linda Howard and Linda Jones
Readaholic
Daughters of the Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
A Bookworm’s World
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May 11, 2010, 12:11 pm
It no longer made any sense to me to call this section ‘In the Mail’ since I buy more books now than I am sent… of course due to the fact that I have been busy and accepting offers would have been greedy. With my first year of Grad school over, I now have an entire summer dedicated to reading... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 5:32 pm
Title: Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-19501Author(s): Maureen Elgersman Lee
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: April 7, 2010
Rating: 2 Stars
In Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950, author Maureen Elgersman Lee attempts to fill what she ca... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 5:29 pm
Title: Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice1Author(s): Raymond Arsenault
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: March 23, 2010
Rating: 4 Stars
In what author Raymond Arsenault calls the first historical study of the Freedom Rides, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racia... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 5:10 pm
What a dead list of late! I have been intensely busy with Graduate school, unfortunately, and have not allowed myself a proper commitment to this website. Just a few more weeks to go!
Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Paperbackswap)
The classic tale that introduced the legendary Le Com... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 5:03 pm
The winner of the $25 gift card to Kroger’s contest, sponsored by Kroger Family of Stores and General Mills through MyBlogSpark, is #72: Jessie C.
I am going to email you for your mailing address now. Please get back to be in $24 hours with your address, which I will pass on to MyBlogSpark.
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Mar 22, 2010, 12:44 am
Can you believe I have (or rather, I suppose in this context I should use the word ‘had’) never been to a Kroger? My old residence did not have one when I lived there, so it never occurred to me to look for one when I moved. So when I got a $25 gift card from Kroger to try out their st... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2010, 6:57 pm
Title: The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries1
Author(s): Carlo Ginzburg
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: March 1, 2010
Rating: 4 Stars
In The Night Battles, Carlo Ginzburg looks at a small group of northeastern Italian people from... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2010, 6:54 pm
Title: Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice
Author(s): Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: February 22, 2010
Rating: 4 Stars
In Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reformin... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2010, 6:45 pm
Title: Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Leadership Conference1
Author(s): David J. Garrow
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: March 3, 2010
Rating: 3 Stars
David J. Garrow has provided an extensive study of Martin Luther King Jr. and his work within the Southe... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2010, 6:38 pm
Title: The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918-19421
Author(s): Claudrena N. Harold
Genre: Nonfiction – History
Finished: February 17, 2010
Rating: 2 Stars
Historians writing of Marcus Garvey and the Garvey movement, according to Claudrena N. Harold, have paid sc... Comment - Like
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