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Second Glance: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult
- Rated 5 stars
“One of the best books I've read in a long time. Page turning story and intellectual edification with some ghosts and a love story. Good stuff.”

esmeralda wrote this review Friday, April 24 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Burnt Offerings

by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Rated 5 stars
“Loved it. I know a lot of people don't like that Anita becomes more sexual, but for me she's becoming a more well rounded character.”

esmeralda wrote this review Saturday, April 18 2009. ( reply | permalink )
The Killing Dance

by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Rated 5 stars
“I loved it. I thought it was the best one yet. Now I'm jonesin for the next one.”

esmeralda wrote this review Wednesday, April 8 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Blindness

by Jose Saramago
- Rated 5 stars
“At first I was put off by the lack of punctuation. But I realized that, if I paid attention it wasn't that difficult. It added to the feeling of the book because everytime, I would think, "hey, wait a minute, who is speaking" I realized that the author was making us a little blind also. It was so moving that I would go to sleep and dream about it. When I accidently left my copy at a friends house, I ran to the library to get another copy. Ironically, they only had the large print edition. weird. Highly recommended.”

esmeralda wrote this review Wednesday, August 6 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The Dogs of Babel

by Carolyn Parkhurst
- Rated 4 stars
“It's funny because I didn't really care about his relationship with his wife or any of that, only about the dog. I enjoyed the book a lot though. I'm just a supersensitive animal loving vegetarian so I get really mad when people's stupidity hurts animals. Paul lost my respect completely when he took Lorelei home, put her in the back yard and went back to the house.”

esmeralda wrote this review Thursday, May 1 2008. ( reply | permalink )
Skinny Bitch

by Rory Freedman
- Rated 5 stars
“More like Sneaky B*tch. I don't want to give away the twist, although other's have, because if I'd have known I probably wouldn't have read it. Let's just say: I read it, I bawled my eyes out, and I am now a vegetarian. Seriously.”

esmeralda wrote this review Wednesday, December 19 2007. ( reply | permalink )
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

by Diana Gabaldon
- Rated 3 stars
“I'm sorry to say that this book is really boring. I LOVE Diana Gabaldon and am one of those people who waits with bated breath for every Outlander book. With the exception of a couple of spicy man on man sex scenes, this is just one drawn out boring mystery where you can't keep all the people straight and you don't really care who dunnit. I guess she has the complete right to write whatever she wants and it must get kind of boring writing about Jamie (who shows up in this one a little) but if you are going to step outside of the story everyone is waiting for, why right about the same characters in the exact same time period. If you are going to do that, why not just write the next one in the series. It's as if J.K Rowling had become bored with Harry Potter, so she didn't release the next one but wrote three books about the life of Mr.Weasley. ”

esmeralda wrote this review Friday, September 14 2007. ( reply | permalink )
The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield
- Rated 5 stars
“I really enjoyed this book. Towards the end, I had to literally stop myself from reading and walk away so it wouldn't end too soon.”

esmeralda wrote this review Thursday, April 5 2007. ( reply | permalink )
Wigfield

by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello
- Rated 3 stars
“Very easy, very silly book. I read it in one sitting. I expected more from this crew though. ”

esmeralda wrote this review Thursday, April 5 2007. ( reply | permalink )
Shopaholic & Baby

by Sophie Kinsella
- Rated 5 stars
“I just love this series. it's silly, but I don't care. Sometimes it's soothing to laugh and know that everything is going to be fine in the end.”

esmeralda wrote this review Thursday, April 5 2007. ( reply | permalink )