I'm trying to be better about writing at least a little blurb about each book I read. Trying being the operative word here. The blurb, if and when I do get around to writing it, will of course happen after the book has been finished. So, in the beginning, what may show up here is just the book's basic information, title, author, date I began reading it. But feel free to comment on the book even if I haven't yet written anything about it. I always like talking about books!
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails…and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever. --Curse for book thieves by Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937)
The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
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Loved the book. Will probably find ways to bring it up in conversations and insist that people read it.
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Liked it well enough. Would probably say that it's a good read, except for [fill in the blank].
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Liked it well enough to finish the book but I wouldn't recommend that someone else read it.
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So bad I couldn't finish the book. If someone mentioned the book title to me I'd probably shake my head and tell him not to waste his time or money.
Book: Islands, Anne River Siddons
Start Date: 04/09/05
End Date: 04/10/05
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I’ve been reading Siddons on and off for years now. I usually reach for her books when I need something that doesn’t require me to do too much thinking, just a nice, happy read. I was a little disappointed in the plot of this book although the writing as usual was quite solid. Halfway through Siddons introduces a know-it-all bitch on wheels that just seems extremely out of place and to top it all off she delivers one line that pretty much tipped the ending for me. You would think, given that I’m one of those people who sometimes jumps to the ending of a book, that I wouldn’t mind this but I did. It wasn’t enough to ruin the book for me but I did find myself rushing through the rest of it so that I could cross the book of my list.

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