Lindy Reads and Reviews
teen novels, comics, children's books, adult fiction, nonfiction... you name it!
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
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I'd heard of Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods and was both intrigued and repelled by its premise. The scheme is to proactively addr...
Monday, November 25, 2013
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
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Me, in a pub in Greymouth, 133 years later and just a little north of Hokitika, the setting of The Luminarie s. I most certainly agr...
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
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With too many other books currently on the go and a looming TBR, I nearly abandoned Claire of the Sea Light when I was about 30 pages in....
Friday, November 22, 2013
Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace
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I knew I had to read Is Just a Movie after hearing Earl Lovelace at the Vancouver Writers Fest last month. He had the entire audience la...
Monday, November 18, 2013
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond
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In The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, David Almond gently reminds us that a human being is an astonishing thing, and that we are part of ...
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
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Kate DiCamillo's children's stories keep getting funnier and more adorable. Holy bagumba! Flora and Ulysses had me laughing out ...
Saturday, November 16, 2013
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
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A remote island in Micronesia in the 1950s. A "lost tribe" who apparently lived for centuries. A doctor who won a Nobel prize in...
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