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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, by Trenton Lee Stewart
Here’s another series that I’m enjoying on audiobook… I listened to the first book about a month ago and have just now gotten to this first sequel. It’s definitely great for work because the plot is...
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma, by Trenton Lee...
It is just a week for finishing up series, it seems. After the last installment of this one, I was a little hesitant to continue, but I needed something to listen to at work and this is what I had. So...
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, by John Grisham
I… ugh. I don’t usually regret reading books, but this one? This one I do. I have never read a John Grisham novel, so I don’t know how this compares, but on its own? It’s not good. So why did I listen...
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The Shining, by Stephen King
Here’s another entry from my TBR Challenge… I saw this movie a while back and thought it was terrible, so I got it into my head that I should read the book because maybe it was better? And then my...
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Juniper Berry, by M.P. Kozlowsky
One of the nice things about putting the stickers on library books is that I get to see these books before they make it out to the shelves, and often before regular library-goers even know these books...
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A Red Herring Without Mustard, by Alan Bradley
I don’t know what is going on in Bishop’s Lacey. You can’t seem to throw a stone in this place without hitting a conspiracy and a dead body. Luckily for everyone, 11-year-old Flavia de Luce is on the...
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, by Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley is just messing with me now, isn’t he? I was so excited in the last Flavia novel that the mystery managed to get off the ground within the first sixth of the book, but here he is back to...
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
Oh, book club, you make me read the weirdest things. I only wish I had remembered how astonishingly weird the French are before I, you know, finished this novel. I think I can be forgiven for this...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
I think my in-person book club has contracted “Annoying Child Narrator” disease. Before this book we read The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which had an overly precocious child narrator, and before that we...
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A Mutiny in Time, by James Dashner
Okay, so, twenty pages in I knew this wasn’t the book for me. However, I promised my younger brother that I would read it and he is not the type to forget a promise made to him, and also the book is...
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Liar and Spy, by Rebecca Stead
After reading When You Reach Me, I had basically decided I was in heart with Rebecca Stead, because, I mean, I love A Wrinkle in Time and so does she and therefore BFF(aeae), right? That’s how it...
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Speaking from Among the Bones, by Alan Bradley
If you’ve been around here for a while, you might know of my love-exasperation relationship with these Flavia de Luce novels. On the one hand, as soon as I see a new one my brain says YOU MUST READ...
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The Boy Who Could See Demons, by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
I found this book while entering some orders for my new library; someone else had picked it out but the blurb sounded interesting enough so I went ahead and put it on hold. When it came in, I was like,...
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Who Could That Be At This Hour, by Lemony Snicket
Speaking of kids with no parental guidance who are measurably smarter than the adults around them… Man, I love Lemony Snicket. I’m not sure how this book got past my radar last year, but there must...
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Rare Beasts, by Charles Ogden
I saw a few books in this Edgar & Ellen series going out of my library around Hallowe’en, and when I picked up this first one and noted the phrase “fans of Lemony Snicket” in a blurb on the back,...
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The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, by Alan Bradley
Intriguing, Mr. Bradley, very intriguing. At the end of the last book, we readers got the news that Flavia’s long-lost-in-the-Himalayas-or-wherever mother had been found, and I personally was like,...
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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, by Alan Bradley
I just don’t even know what is going on with Flavia these days. I mean, I’ve always had my problems with these books, which have decently interesting mysteries and a delightful protagonist but which...
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Scarlett Undercover, by Jennifer Latham
Oh, man. I don’t even know what to do with this book. I wanted to like it, because the description referenced Veronica Mars and I am a fluffy fluffy Marshmallow, but of course nothing is as good as...
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
This book and I have a bit of a history together. I first heard about it before it came out, when John Green (a college friend of Riggs) was spreading massive love for the book around the internets....
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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d, by Alan Bradley
If you’ve been around the blog a while, you’ll know already that I have a love/hate, love to hate, hate to love relationship with Flavia de Luce, which is weird ’cause she’s twelve and also fictional,...
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