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- jun - @J I had the same thought about the rhino. And he’s nearly drowned twice so far. @K I’m glad to...
- K - It was the passage of time between advances that really got me. On the one hand, yeah, Cal is a 15 year old...
- J - Wow. You’ve convinced me I made the right decision in not reading the rest. How many times does he nearly...
- J - True. Like we can’t rebuild our society without some cataclysmic tragedy to motivate us.
- K - I think part of the issue is that so many dystopian books are also post-apocalyptic. It’s often used as...
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A Spy in the House (Y.S. Lee)
Posted on May 1, 2011 | 4 CommentsThe Plot The orphaned Mary Lang’s nascent crime spree was halted abruptly when she was caught in the act. Sentenced to hang for her behavior, the twelve year old was instead spirited away to Miss... -
Botchan (Natsume Soseki)
Posted on April 9, 2011 | 1 CommentThe Plot The younger son of a relatively middle class family in Meiji era Japan, the narrator of Botchan advances through life with a reckless attitude and next to no thought at all for his... -
Rurouni Kenshin 1-6 by Nobuhiro Watsuki: B+
Posted on March 13, 2011 | 3 CommentsIt feels like I last read Rurouni Kenshin eons ago, even though it’s only been five years since the US edition came to an end. The siren call of a potential reread has been increasing... -
Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh (R.L. LaFevers)
Posted on November 21, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe Plot At the end of the last book, Theodosia set out with her mother to Egypt. Their avowed purpose was to search for the temple of Thutmose III, but Theodosia had a secret mission... -
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages: A-
Posted on October 22, 2010 | 10 CommentsFrom the back cover: It is 1943, and while war consumes the United States and the world, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her father in a town that—officially—doesn’t exist: Los Alamos, New Mexico. Famous scientists...