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2009: #61 – City of Thieves (David Benioff)

June 15, 2009 1 Comment

During the Nazisâ€™ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughterâ€™s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.

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2009: Mailbox Monday – Monday #17

June 15, 2009 5 Comments

I have been horrible about keeping my table cleaned off lately, so Iâ€™m not 100% sure I havenâ€™t already posted about some of these! Blue Noon was on my PaperBack Swap wishlist. The Big Steal came to me from the lovely Algonquin Books. No One You Know was sent to me through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Group. And the final three,

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2009: The Sunday Salon – The been-a-while Edition

June 10, 2009 1 Comment

I started writing this post on Wednesday, because if I try to put off all my thoughts until Sunday, it just never gets written! Challenges update Now that weâ€™ve hit the mid-point of the year, I realized that I needed to weed out some of my challenges. Hereâ€™s whatâ€™s going on with them: The Naming Conventions Challenge – My deadline for this actually passed back

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2009: #60 – Breathers (S.G. Browne)

June 10, 2009 3 Comments

Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere.