reading notes

Blindness

by José Saramago translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero ISBN: 0156007754

Blindness is not an easy book to read, full as it is is with pain, difficulty, and horror. It is the

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World War Z

An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks ISBN: 0715635964

Monterey, California is an insanely beautiful place -- perfect weather, blue ocean, barking sea lions -- and when I was there

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Tanglewreck

by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0747580642

Tanglewreck is Winterson's first foray into the young adult market. (The King of Capri is an illustrated book aimed at younger kids, and everything else she's written

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The Light Ages

by Ian R. MacLeod ISBN: 0441011497

Imagine if the power mined from the ground in Victorian England was not coal, but magic.

This is the basis of MacLeod's fantastic alternate past: the world

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