romance 

2009: #38 – The Masque of the Black Tulip (Lauren Willig)

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Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked the spy who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation’s deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she’s pretty sure that her handsome on-again, off-again crush, Colin Selwick, has the answers somewhere in his archives. But what she discovers in an old codebook is something juicier than she ever imagined.

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2009: #37 – Whiskey Sour (J.A. Konrath)

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Lieutenant Jacqueline ‘Jack’ Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself ‘The Gingerbread Man’ is dumping mutilated bodies in her district. Between avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner, Herb, must catch the maniac before he kills again….and Jack is next on his murder list.

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mailbox monday memes 

2009: Mailbox Monday – Monday #10

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Much like last week, there were four books in my “mailbox” this week… The first two were from PaperbackSwap. The Resort is to be read for the Novel Ladies book club I’m a part of on GoodReads.  The Secret Hour is part of my apparent desire to obtain all of Scott Westerfeld’s books even though I haven’t read any of them yet. Into the Beautiful

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young adult 

2009: #36 – Matilda (Roald Dahl)

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Poor, misunderstood Matilda fights back against an unappreciative world through a hidden talent: Matilda is the world’s greatest practical joker! Little effort is needed to put one over on her obnoxious parents, but can shy little Matilda handle the formidable headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and win the respect of every kid in school? Yes!

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