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Book 90: The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) – Rick Riordan
With The Lost Hero Riordan sucked me into a new series. It definitely helped that this was a continuation of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It also helped that the Greek pantheon has a...
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Book 158: Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds – Aristophanes
Short and sweet. I’m finished! I am done with all of my challenges for 2012! Upon completion of this book I wrapped up the Back to the Classics Challenge, so keep an eye out for the wrap up post on …...
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Book 195: Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World –...
Sorry for the long post in advance, it’s been a long time since I’ve read a book about museums and antiquities and I forgot how much I love them and how much they make me think! This book has been …...
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Book 238: The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4) – Rick Riordan
In this, the penultimate novel of The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan sets the scene for a HUGE finale in the last and final book. I’ve had my name on the wait list for this book since I finished The...
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Book 298: L’America – Martha McPhee
Honestly, I’m sad I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would. Seriously, I’ve given it the lowest rating of the year so far. I bought it in one of my bulk buys at the 2011 Boston Book festival …...
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Book 314: The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) – Rick Riordan
This is one of those books that I probably should’ve re-read the entire series before reading. So much has happened in the novels, especially if you go all the way back to the first Percy Jackson book,...
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30 x 30: #19 – Finish visiting the entire MFA with Caroline
I’m calling this one. And with that I’m down to eight remaining on my 30×30 list. I told you I’d be moving through quite a few this week! After almost four hours at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,...
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Book 332: Male Sex Work and Society – Victor Minichiello and John Scott (eds.)
This book simultaneously highlights what is good and what is bad about the white tower of academia. It explores a specific topic in depth, while establishing absolutely nothing, other than the need for...
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Book 369: Symposium – Plato
I understand how important this work is, you know, history and stuff (hello sarcasm), but there is no need for the introduction to be roughly half the length of the entire work! Seriously, by time I...
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Book 437: A House Like A Lotus (O’Keefe Family #3) – Madeleine L’Engle
As much as I enjoyed the other O’Keefe novels, this one just didn’t work for me. It’s still a great novel, but something about the lay out or Polly’s age, or the subject matter just didn’t work for me....
View ArticleBook 588: Crashed – How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam...
What a tome. I requested a copy of this from the publisher back in August 2018 after reading this review from the NYTimes.* It took me three months to get to it and another month-and-a-half to actually...
View ArticleBook 742: Crime Dot Com – Geoff White
I honestly don’t know how people exist without being paranoid ALL THE TIME. When I first said yes to this after the publicist reached out, it was like 95% because the author’s first name was Geoff and...
View ArticleBook 826: His Compass (His #2) – Con Riley
I was a little surprised to find that there were already two additional books released in Con Riley’s His series. I read and adored His Horizon this time last year and had kept an eye out for the...
View ArticleBook 924: Tell Me Our Story – Anyta Sunday
After reading Anyta Sunday’s adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels I knew I wanted to try one of her other contemporary novels without the Austen framework so when this arrived in my inbox I requested a...
View ArticleBook 950: Kaleidoscope – Cecily Wong
When someone from the publisher reached out about Kaleidoscope, this line caught me: “This book is heart-wrenching and hopeful and the characters truly shine on the page. It’s one of those books where...
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