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Category Archives: book club reads
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Oh, man. Man, man, man. Mannnnnnnnnn. I just finished reading Gone Girl and I’m so upset that book club was cancelled this week because of the snow so I have to wait until NEXT TUESDAY to discuss it!!! So Nick’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club reads, Fiction, Mystery
Tagged 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club, fiction, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, mystery, unreliable narrators
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Well, I did it to myself AGAIN, but…
Well, I did it to myself again, but…it’s that time of year when I allow my students to choose from a list of novels to read. This year, I was dumb and let them choose from TEN selections. This was … Continue reading
Recent DNFs
First off, let me just say that it is still rare that I put a book down unfinished. I’ve tried over the last year or so to walk away from books that are just not good, so that I can … Continue reading
Posted in book club reads, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Film Based on Books, I Want My Money Back!, Random Rants
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Crap I Read Lately…and I DO mean crap.
I’ve been slacking on my posts SOOO much, and I guess it’s time to rectify that. Sort of. I normally post a review after every book I read…however, as I am now more than just a handful behind, I’m taking … Continue reading
Posted in book club reads, Classics, Contemporary, Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Paranormal, Young Adult
Tagged book club, classics, contemporary, dystopian, graphic novel, Pride and Prejudice, rereads, YA
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Life After Life – Kate Atkinson (ARC to be published April 2nd)
**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher. Below opinions are my own.** So first I want to say straight out that I loved Life After Life. It’s a honkin’ big book, and it’s really not my “type” … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club reads, Fantasy, Fiction
Tagged 2 Dorks 1 Book, ARC, book club, confusing as hell, fiction, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, reincarnation
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Two Dorks, One Book: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Michelle says: So I read this in one evening for my neighborhood book club (the first one Kelley is going to drive up and join me for! Yay!) and found it reasonably enjoyable. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? is … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club reads, Nonfiction
Tagged 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club, memoir, mindy kaling, Two Dorks One Book
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My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
This is a reread for me and I distinctly remember not liking it the first time because of the ending. It was bad enough to ruin the entire novel! This time, I had some time and space to get used … Continue reading
A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons — Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Ugh. I hate when my book club chooses nonfiction. Not because I dislike nonfiction per se, but simply because I want my pleasure reading to be…well, pleasurable. So often, nonfiction is too much like work! I do like NF sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged book club, historical figures, nonfiction
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Ok, this is another one I really tried to like. It was a book club choice and it did keep my interest, progressed fairly quickly, and would have been strongly in the ‘like’ column except for three things: the fake-ass lower Mississippi dialogue, … Continue reading
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
This wasn’t a bad book, but it wasn’t stellar enough to be the recent choice of BOTH of my book clubs either. First off, let’s talk about that mouthful of a title. Here’s how the thought-stream goes in my head every single time I … Continue reading
