My book reviews:
2012
The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey
The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
The Demands by Mark Billingham
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
The Darlings by Cristina Alger
The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Defending Jacob by William Landay
A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
2011
The Retribution by Val McDermid
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel
Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
The Magician King by Lev Grossman
This Won’t Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood by Michelle Au, MD.
Extra Book Content:
The Ending of The Sense of an Ending
What I Read in 2012:
- Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
- Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
- The Darlings by Cristina Alger
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- High Rise by J G Ballard
- 1222 by Anne Holt
- Sister by Rosamund Lupton
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Castle by J. Robert Lennon
- The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
- The Expats by Chris Pavone
- Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
- Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
- Garnethill by Denise Mina
- Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
- The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
- The Demands by Mark Billingham
- The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey
What I Read in 2011:
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
- A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
- The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- The Private Patient by P.D. James
- Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
- The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
- Hell House by Richard Matheson
- Snapshot by Garry Disher
- In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- This Won’t Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood by Michelle Au, MD
- The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman
- Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke* (re-read)
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Dominance by Will Lavender
- Tumbler by Brand Gamblin
- Feed by Mira Grant
- The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
- Thirsty by M. T. Anderson
- Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel
- Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Legacy by Katherine Webb
- Matched by Ally Condie
- The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Reconstructionist by Nick Arvin
- The Retribution by Val McDermid
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
- The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
- The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
- The Leopard by Jo Nesbø
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Odds by Stewart O’Nan
- The Last Place by Laura Lippman
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
- Deadline by Mira Grant
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Jess is a procrastinator, a former working mom who is suddenly staying at home, a Dr-Dr's wife, a non-practicing lawyer, an Autism Mom, a devoted reader, a penny pincher, a coupon clipper, a new New England-er, a low-key agnostic, a nice girl, a top-notch speller, a hardcore blogger and a Twitter fiend.
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