Game of Thrones

Fiction by George R.R. Martin.



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Good book, but a little long. (805 pages!!)

And it's only book ONE! So I got to the end, and realized I'd basically just read an eight-hundred-plus-page set-up for a series!

This book is a big commitment.

Of course, you can just watch it on TV instead I guess....

Sister

Fiction by Rosamund Lupton.



Cool book. I totally recommend it.

Literary yet suspenseful. Like if Jodi Picoult could marry Tom Clancy and have a book baby.

I hope nobody takes that comment the wrong way....

The House at Riverton

Fiction by Kate Morton.




Good book by the author of The Forgotten Garden, which I also enjoyed.

It's like a Gothic novel, only real and grounded in the present.

I recommend Kate Morton.

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Lunatics

Fiction by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel.


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This. Book. Is. HYSTERICAL.

I'm seriously talking laugh-out-loud-in-a-public-place-by-yourself all-out-funny.

It does have cuss words in it. So not for the kids. But FUNNY as heck.

The Next Best Thing

Fiction by Jennifer Weiner.


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Good book.

This was about a woman who manages to get her comedy show on TV...and all the problems involved. (There were a lot.) It kind of makes me amazed that ANYTHING good gets on TV.

Or, I could say, it makes me not surprised that there's nothing good on TV.....

Well, I guess "good" is a relative term, isn't it.

The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

Fiction by Alexander McCall Smith.



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This is number thirteen in the "Number One Ladies' Detective Agency" series. I have read all these books and they are great.

It's set in Gabarone, Botswana (a country in Africa), and features some of the most low-key but absorbing detective stories I've read.

I mean, it's not murder, mayhem and gore; it's human nature and real situations. You may feel it moves slowly, but the story will grab you if you give it the time.

I recommend starting with the first book though. (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

Heading Out to Wonderful

Fiction by Robert Goolrick.



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Really good story, although a little dark near the end, in an unexpected way.

I got this book because I'd liked A Reliable Wife by the same author. That one also had a surprising twist to the dark side. Not that I'm giving anything away.

So, based on that other book, I got this one without knowing what it was about.

Still, I didn't really like the cover of Heading Out to Wonderful, or the title really, which are major deciding factors for me in book-choosing, as I am extremely shallow. So I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it, since I'd just gotten a large stack of library books and was running out of time to read everything.

But I decided to give this book a chance, and it got me with the first line:

"The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that."

Isn't that a cool first line?