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Mostly Fiction Blog

Contained here would be summaries and opinions of fiction books I've read recently and some time in the past.

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  • Castle: a novel by J. Robert Lennon (Review) 5/23/2009 1:31 PM
  • Intriguing, this story stirs, this may be a book that you either like or don't.
    0 comments
  • Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay 5/1/2009 5:44 PM
  • Narcoleptic gumshoe brings new meaning to being "asleep on the job".
    0 comments
  • Take Me Out To The Ballgame! 5/2/2008 2:22 PM
  • "The Natural" by Bernard Malamud, "You Know Me Al" by Ring Lardner & "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella
    1 comment
  • The Automatic Detective 3/19/2008 6:27 PM
  • Hot off the press, this sci-fi mystery is fast paced and original.
    0 comments
  • Two Sci-Fi Classics 3/12/2008 8:40 PM
  • "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card & "A Canticle For Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.
    3 comments
  • Free Fire (Box, C.J.) 2/13/2008 7:27 PM
  • What could be better? The outdoors, Yellowstone National Park and Murder!
    1 comment
  • The Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea) 1/30/2008 7:18 PM
  • A debut novel that caused public controversy in the Arab world.
    1 comment
  • Berlin Game 1/4/2008 2:07 PM
  • Former British spy Bernard Samson must bring a valuable agent from behind the Iron Curtain to safety in the West.
    0 comments
  • Joe Pickett Mystery Series(author C.J.Box) 11/21/2007 7:28 PM
  • A mystery series set in the Wyoming outdoors.
    1 comment
  • The Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill) 8/16/2007 4:38 PM
  • Warning: The hairs on my arms stood on end while reading this book. If you like reading Stephen King, you will enjoy this creepy tale.
    9 comments
  • Skinner's Drift 7/12/2007 4:27 PM
  • This novel, set in South Africa, provides many rewards for the reader.
    1 comment
  • The Dead Fathers Club (Matt Haig) 7/2/2007 4:31 PM
  • Reminiscent of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The Dead Fathers Club is unabashedly a modern twist on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
    1 comment
  • My Life as a Fake & Jack Maggs (Peter Carey) 5/23/2007 5:09 PM
  • Two tales worth having on the bedside night table.
    1 comment
  • A Far Country (Daniel Mason) 5/9/2007 8:02 PM
  • This is not a fast paced novel, the story starts gently, painting village life, a place remote and unspoiled, building into a modern edgier story
    3 comments
  • The Legacy 5/9/2007 3:12 PM
  • After inheriting a large sum of money, a young woman embarks on an exciting, philanthropic and ultimately fulfilling life.
    1 comment
  • Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile 5/3/2007 11:51 AM
  • I never would have imagined what an extraordinary trip it would be to go inside the head of an aged tortoise in an 18th century English garden until I read about Timothy.
    0 comments
  • The Coroner's Lunch (Colin Cotterill) 5/2/2007 7:24 PM
  • The first title of a mystery series set in Laos 1975.
    0 comments
  • Jennifer Government (Max Barry) 4/23/2007 3:58 PM
  • A madcap mystery thriller of the not so distant future.
    2 comments
  • The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery by Ian Sansom 4/5/2007 11:41 AM
  • If you are looking for a “laugh out loud” funny, fast read with a bumbling librarian missing all his books and living in a chicken coop in Ireland then this is the book for you.
    3 comments
  • The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly 4/4/2007 5:02 PM
  • A fairy tale for adults in a coming of age story. Fast paced, with all the elements.
    3 comments
  • Buffalo Woman 3/28/2007 1:53 PM
  • A fictional account of a Native American woman's life which spanned a significant part of American history.
    1 comment

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