Posts tagged 2012 Books

in Books on 02.Sep.12 01.Sep.12 by Jodi Chromey

Level Up

Recently I had the extreme misfortune of reading two fabulous books back to back (Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles) and I’ve been in a crappy, cranky reading slump…

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in Books on 01.Sep.12 01.Sep.12 by Jodi Chromey

Jane says

I’m going go right ahead and put Jane Beckles right up on a pedestal next to Ramona Flowers & Zero Hopeless-Savage. These pedestals are reserved for kickass, young, female characters from graphic novels. After I…

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in Books on 22.Aug.12 18.Aug.12 by Jodi Chromey

I want more books about female architects

I mentioned recently on Book Riot that I’m a sucker for epistolary novels. You write a novel in book/journal form and I’m gonna read it. It’s kind of how I cannot resist anything featuring an…

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in Books on 19.Aug.12 18.Aug.12 by Jodi Chromey

More WTF than I can handle

There’s a reason I don’t often read actual issues of comicbooks, especially of the superhero genre. Reading comicbooks you have to have a high-tolerance for ambiguity. You seems to spend a lot of pages wondering…

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in Books on 18.Aug.12 18.Aug.12 by Jodi Chromey

Somethin’ to Do

Wade Salem is a drifty, drug-dealing, storytelling, sometime musician. He’s fascinating, if you can experience him from a distance. He’s not the man you’d want as your father-figure, which is the case for the unnamed…

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