Dirty Job: A Novel

Moore, Christopher

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Borrowed from Erik's coworker

Finished 8 January 2010

Desert Queen

Gertrude Bell, female Lawrence of Arabia. Recommended by Uncle Bob.

Wallach, Janet

Year of the Flood

Atwood, Margaret

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I waited my turn in the library's 400-person-long hold queue, and now it's in my hands!

Highly recommended, especially if you enjoyed Oryx and Crake.
Finished 25 December 2009

Invention of Everything Else, The

Hunt, Samantha

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Recommended in the library newsletter, so I picked it to revive the book club

Finished 20 December 2009

I enjoy it, but the story got progressively weaker and I wasn't impressed with the ending.

Let the Right One In

Lindqvist, John Ajvide

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Borrowed from a coworker of Erik. We saw the movie before we went to Sweden-- lovely and very dark.

Finished 12 December 2009

Freddy and Fredericka

Helprin, Mark

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Erik bought this for me years ago because Mark Helprin is one of my favorite authors. Chris borrowed it quite a while ago, and I finally got around to it myself. Full of charming banter and puns, not as many of the amazing descriptions for which I fell in love with his writing.