2010 Reviews by Author

My reviews alphabetized by the author's last name.

Allen, Sarah Addison--The Girl Who Chased the Moon--3.5 Stars

Allen, Sarah Addison--The Sugar Queen--4 Stars
Allende, Isabel--Portrait in Sepia--3 Stars
Anderson, R. J.--Spell Hunter--4 Stars
Andrews, Mary Kay--Blue Christmas--4 Stars
Angelou, Maya--I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--4 Stars
Austen, Jane--Persuasion--5 Stars

Ball, Margaret--Duchess of Aquitaine--3 Stars

Baratz-Logsted, Lauren--The Education of Bet--3 Stars
Barnes, Jonathan--The Somnambulist--3.5 Stars
Blake, Sarah--The Postmistress--5 Stars
Bohjalian, Chris--Skeletons at the Feast--5 Stars
Brady, Joan--Venom--2.5 Stars
Briggs, Patricia--Moon Called--4 Stars
Bull, Emma--War For The Oaks--5 Stars
Butcher, Jim--Storm Front--4 Stars

 

Campbell, Chelsea--The Rise of Renegade X--4 Stars

Carriger, Gail--Changeless--4 Stars
Carriger, Gail--Soulless--5 Stars
Charleson, Susannah--Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership      With a Search-and-Rescue Dog--4 Stars
Cogdill, Michael--She-Rain--5 Stars
Connolly, John--The Book of Lost Things--4 Stars
Cowell, Stephanie--Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet--3 Stars
Cremer, Andrea--Nightshade--3 Stars

 

Davidson, Andrew--The Gargoyle--4.5 Stars

Davis, Heather--The Clearing by Heather Davis--4 Stars
de Lint, Charles--Muse and Reverie--4 Stars
Despain, Bree--The Dark Divine--3 Stars
Díaz, Junot--The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao--4 Stars
Diaz Gonzalez, Christina--The Red Umbrella--5 Stars
Dickens, Charles--Christmas Tales--3 Stars
Dogar, Sharon--Annexed--5 Stars
Donnelly, Jennifer--A Northern Light--5 Stars
Donnelly, Jennifer--Revolution--4 Stars
Ducharme, Diann--The Outer Banks House--3 Stars

Essex, Karen--Dracula in Love--DNF

Evanovich, Janet--One for the Money--4 Stars
Evans, Richard Paul--The Christmas Box--4 Stars

 

Ferris, Jean--Once Upon a Marigold--4 Stars

Fforde, Jasper--Shades of Grey--3 Stars
Fitzpatrick, Becca--Hush, Hush--1 Star
Follett, Ken--The Pillars of the Earth--4 Stars
Follett, Ken--World Without End--3 Stars
Fortier, Anne-Juliet--4 Stars
Frank, Anne--The Diary of a Young Girl--5 Stars
Fraser, Gail--Lumby on the Air--4 Stars
Frazier, Angie--Everlasting--4 Stars
Furnivall, Kate--The Jewel of St. Petersburg--4 Stars

Gaiman, Neil--The Sandman Vol. I: Preludes & Nocturnes--3      Stars

Gaiman, Neil--The Sandman Vol. II: The Doll's House--3.5 Stars
Gaiman, Neil--Stardust--5 Stars
Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl--Beautiful Creatures--4.5 Stars
García Márquez, Gabriel--Love in the Time of Cholera --3 Stars
George, Jessica Day--Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow--3.5 Stars
Gilbert, Elizabeth--Eat, Pray, Love--4 Stars
Gortner, C. W.--The Confessions of Catherine de Medici--4 Stars
Gregory, Philippa--The Boleyn Inheritance--4 Stars
Grosse Ivie, Mary-Anne--The Fairy-Folk and She--4 Stars
Grossman, Lev--The Magicians--4 Stars
Guterson, David--Snow Falling on Cedars--4 Stars

Haddix, Margaret Peterson--Sent: The Missing: Book Two--3      Stars

Hale, Shannon--Book of a Thousand Days--5 Stars
Harvell, Richard--The Bells--4 Stars
Heller, Joseph--Catch-22--4 Stars
Henderson, Jason--Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising--4 Stars
Hegi, Ursula--The Vision of Emma Blau--3 Stars
Herriot, James--All Creatures Great and Small--5 Stars

Irving, John--A Prayer for Owen Meany--3.5 Stars

Jackson, Joshilyn--Between, Georgia--3.5 Stars

Jones, Diana Wynne--Castle in the Air--4 Stars

Kaplan, Mitchell James--By Fire, By Water--3 Stars

Kay, Guy Gavriel--Under Heaven--3 Stars
Kilgo, James--Daughter of My People--3 Stars
King, Laurie R.--The Beekeeper's Apprentice--4 Stars
King, Stephen--Under the Dome--4 Stars

Lackey, Mercedes--The Fairy Godmother--4 Stars

Larsson, Stieg--The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest--4 Stars
Larsson, Stieg--The Girl Who Played With Fire--4 Stars
Larsson, Stieg--The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo--3 Stars
Lechermeier, Philippe--The Secret Lives of Princesses--5 Stars
Lehane, Dennis--Shutter Island--4 Stars
Lo, Malinda--Ash--3 Stars
Luck, Kenny (editor)--Thumbing Through Thoreau--3 Stars
Lynch, Scott--The Lies of Locke Lamora--4 Stars

Marillier, Juliet--Cybele's Secret--4 Stars

Marillier, Juliet--Wildwood Dancing--5 Stars
Martel, Yann--Life of Pi--2 Stars
Martin, George R. R.--A Game of Thrones--5 Stars
Martin, Lee--The Bright Forever--4 Stars
Meldrum, Christina--Madapple--4 Stars
Meyer, L. A.--Bloody Jack--4 Stars
Meyer, Stephenie--Eclipse--4 Stars
Miéville, China--Un Lun Dun--5 Stars
Montgomery, L. M.--Anne of Green Gables--5 Stars
Moore, Christopher--Bite Me: A Love Story--4 Stars
Moore, Christopher--Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's      Childhood Pal--4 Stars
Moore, Christopher--The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale      of Christmas Terror--3.5 Stars
Moran, Michelle--Cleopatra's Daughter--4 Stars

Naslund, Sena Jeter--Ahab's Wife--5 Stars

Nielson, Sheila A.--Forbidden Sea--4 Stars

 

O'Donnell, Neil--People of the Sword--2 Stars

Parkinson, Judy--Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pajamas--3.5      Stars

Pasha, Kamran--Shadow of the Swords--4 Stars
Pearce, Jackson--Sisters Red--3 Stars
Peeler, Nicole--Tempest Rising--3.5 Stars
Peters, Elizabeth--Crocodile on the Sandbank--4 Stars
Peterson, Jerome--Thumb Flagging--4 Stars
Peterson, Jerome--The Haunting of Andrew Sharpai--3 Stars
Poole, Sara--Poison--4 Stars

Rash, Ron--Serena--4 Stars

Riordan, Rick--The Lightning Thief--5 Stars
Riordan, Rick--The Titan's Curse--4 Stars

Shukert, Rachel--Everything is Going to be Great: An      Overexposed and Underfunded European Grand Tour--3 Stars

Smith, Lee--Black Mountain Breakdown--3 Stars
Smith, Lee--Fair and Tender Ladies--5 Stars
Snyder, Maria V.--Poison Study--5 Stars
Soren, Sasha--Random Magic--2.5 Stars
Stepakoff, Jeffrey--Fireworks Over Toccoa--3 Stars
Stevenson, Robert Louis--Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--3 Stars
Stiefvater, Maggie--Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception--3      Stars
Stiefvater, Maggie--Shiver--4 Stars
Stockett, Kathryn--The Help--5 Stars
Stoker, Bram--Dracula--4 Stars
Strout, Elizabeth--Olive Kitteridge--4 Stars

Taggart, Caroline--The Classics--4 Stars

Trigiani, Adriana--Very Valentine--3 Stars

Vreeland, Susan--Girl in Hyacinth Blue--5 Stars

Wallace, Carey--The Blind Contessa's New Machine--3.5 Stars

Watkins, Paul--The Ice Soldier--4 Stars
Webber, Heather--Truly, Madly--3.5 Stars
Westerfeld, Scott--Behemoth--4 Stars
Westerfeld, Scott--Leviathan--4 Stars
Weston, Robert Paul--Dust City--4 Stars
Whitcomb, Laura--The Fetch--3 Stars
White, Bailey--Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of      Southern Living--4 Stars
White, Susan Rebecca--Bound South--3 Stars
Wiesel, Elie--Night--5 Stars
Willig, Lauren--The Temptation of the Night Jasmine--3.5 Stars

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz--The Angel's Game--3 Stars

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz--The Prince of Mist--3 Stars
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz--The Shadow of the Wind--4 Stars
Zusak, Markus--The Book Thief--5 Stars