Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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Reading progress update: I've read 51 out of 464 pages.
Bel-Imperia is not impressed by her brother or Balthazar who is still wandering around, moping.
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Reading progress update: I've read 132 out of 260 pages.
Knowing French might be helpful, but I'm getting the basic idea without - possiby losing some nuances.
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Reading progress update: I've read 346 out of 1102 pages.
A pome I recognise from elsewhere! (It's about a concientious objector.)
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Reading progress update: I've read 45 out of 464 pages.
One of Bel-Imperia's persecutors gets his come-uppance...
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Reading progress update: I've read 246 out of 597 pages.
Landy is good at taking the plot to completely unexpected places.
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These stories show a great capacity for capturing time, place and character. Highly evocative. On the whole I think I prefered the Depression era Alabama childhood stories to the more recently set ones, but the one set in a cemetary was great. This volume has made me take a wider interest in Capote's work.
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Reading progress update: I've read 114 out of 260 pages.
The schoolroom is less interesting than the clerk's office.
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Reading progress update: I've read 96 out of 597 pages.
6p in: Is this stuff as good as it used to be?
96p in: What's gonna happen next?!
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Diamonds and Doom, Marcus Sedgwick
The final book in the Raven Mysteries reaches almost as high as the first book and higher than any of the middle ones, mainly due to the introduction of Rob the Rival Raven and a level of insanity that renders the events of previous books almost normal seeming...
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Reading progress update: I've read 104 out of 260 pages.
Matters in Belgium are progressing slowly...
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Reading progress update: I've read 158 out of 235 pages.
Even crazier than the typical goings on at Otherhand Castle!
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