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Monday, May 5, 2008
The Classics are Still In
An annual survey of schoolkids' reading preferences shows that Dr. Seuss, E.B. White, and Judy Bloom have staying power. Read all the details in this
brief article
in the Washington Post.
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Is Sex Neccessary? by James Thurber and E.B.White
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My Life In Hard Times by James Thurber
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
Ilium by Dan Simmons
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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Books Reviewed at IBC #6
What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert L. Wolke
We Thought You Would Be Prettier by Laurie Notaro
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Tremor by Craig Dirgo
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Satan: A Biography by Henry Ansgar Kelly
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Man Overboard: Confessions of a Novice Math Teacher in the Bronx by Ric Klass
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemnas of Spying by James M. Olson
Espresso with the Headhunters by John Wassner
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Blindness and Seeing by Jose Saramago
Bellwether by Connie Willis
Books Discussed in IBC #5
Memories of My Melancholy Whores -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Thirteenth Tale -
Diane Setterfield
The Departed -
Martin Scorsese
Steal Away Home -
Lois Ruby
Eats, Shoots & Leaves -
Lynne Truss
Rex and the City -
Lee Harrington
Selling Women Short -
Liza Featherstone
Fighting Words -
Robin Morgan
Red Sky At Morning -
Richard Bradford
The Prestige -
Christopher Priest
His Majesty's Dragon -
Naomi Novik
Kim -
Rudyard Kipling
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill -
William Manchester
Autobiography of a Face -
Lucy Grealy
The Hidden Giants -
Sethanne Howard
Northern Lights -
Nora Roberts
The Inner Circle -
T.C. Boyle
Books Reviewed in IBC #4 (Sci-Fi/Fantasy Theme)
Time Stops for No Mouse -
Michael Hoeye
Only Revolutions -
Mark Danielewski
Cryptonomicon -
Neal Stephenson
The Stolen Child -
Keith Donohue
The Rumplestiltskin Problem -
Vivian Vendevelde
The City of Ember -
Jeanne DuPrau
By the Light of the Moon -
Dean Koontz
Lightning -
Dean Koontz
Three Sisters Island Trilogy -
Nora Roberts
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven -
Fannie Flagg
Beautiful Lies -
Lisa Unger
The Face of Deception -
Iris Johansen
Promise Me -
Harlan Coben
Morrigan's Cross -
Nora Roberts
Tales from Watership Down -
Richard Adams
Acorna: The Unicorn Girl -
Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball
Firefly -
Joss Whedon and Tim Minear
Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion -
Dan Simmons
Spock's World -
Diane Duane
Ender's Game -
Orson Scott Card
Books Reviewed in IBC #3 (Historical Fiction Theme)
The Inner Circle -
T.C. Boyle
Younger -
Pamela Redmond Satran
Stones from the River -
Ursula Hegi
The King Must Die -
Mary Renault
Middlesex -
Jeffrey Eugenides
Three Weeks with My Brother -
Nicholas and Micah Sparks
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -
Robert Pirsig
The Terrible Hours -
Peter Maas
God is an Englishman -
R.F. Delderfield
The Blind Assassin -
Margaret Atwood
Montana 1948 -
Larry Watson
Night -
Elie Wiesel
Running Out of Time -
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Outlander -
Diana Gabaldon
The Preservationist -
David Maine
The March -
E.L.Doctorow
Books Reviewed in IBC #2
The Jane Austen Book Club -
Karen Joy Fowler
Life of Pi -
Yann Martel
The Stolen Child -
Keith Donohue
The Time Traveler's Wife -
Audrey Niffenegger
Hotel Patsis -
Peter Mayle
Don't Stop the Carnival -
Herman Wouk
Lamb -
Christopher Moore
In the Company of a Courtesan -
Sarah Dunant
Illusions -
Richard Bach
The Prophet of Yonwood -
Jeanne DuPrau
Books Reviewed in IBC#1
Seven Types of Ambiguity -
Elliot Perlman
The Mermaid Chair -
Sue Monk Kidd
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -
Mark Haddon
Marley and Me -
John Grogan
On Celtic Tides -
Chris Duff
To Have and To Hold -
Jane Green
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