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Notes From the Underground

Posted in 1,001 Books on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Title: Notes From the Underground
Author: Dostoevsky
Finished: August 29
Pages: 258
Publisher: Signet Classics
Publish Year: 2004
ISBN: 0451529553
Dostoevsky always writes very interesting stories and this is just another one of them.
I had a hard time getting into this one until over halfway through but found it quite interesting and wonderful.

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Ethan Frome

Posted in 1,001 Books, author: edith wharton on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Title: Ethan Frome
Author: Edith Wharton
Finished: August 27
Pages: 176
Publisher: Signet Classics
Publish Year: 2000
ISBN: 0451527666
A short tale of love and tragedy and sacrifice in a lonely and poor life.
An easy read, finished within a matter of hours. The story of Ethan Frome, a poor farming man who lives with his wife and her sister, who happens to [...]

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Posted in 1,001 Books on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Title: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Author: Jules Verne
Finished: August 26
Pages: 304
Publisher: Signet Classics
Publish Year: 2003
ISBN: 0451528964
Decoding an ancient message, a boy and his Uncle find the secret to finding the center of the Earth by traveling to Iceland and finding an entrance in one of the mountains, pointed to by a shadow during [...]

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Smoke Screen

Posted in Fiction, author: sandra brown on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Title: Smoke Screen
Author: Sandra Brown
Finished: August 24
Pages: 416
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publish Year: 2008
ISBN: 1416563067
Another mystery, another city. In this new book, a reporter and a former fire fighter are thrown together by life threatening circumstances. Britt Shelley was a rising star, until she woke up next to the naked and dead body of a former [...]

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Posted in author: f. scott fitzgerald on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Title: the Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Finished: August 22
Pages: 32
Publisher: Juniper Grove
Publish Year: 2008
ISBN: 1603550836
A great short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a baby born at the old age of 70something, only to curiously grow younger instead of older. He experiences everything backwards, his father soon becomes his brother and his [...]

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