Our sweet kitty left our lives Wednesday morning. After about 19 years of life (he was an adult when we met him, we don’t know precisely how old he was), his body was done, and it was time for him to rest.
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(A) indicates an Audiobook review2012
May
- The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
April
- Wild Thing by Josh Bazell
- Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
- The Chalk Girl by Carol O’Connell
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
March
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
- Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith
- Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole
- Eyes Like Leaves by Charles de Lint
- The Gap Year by Sarah Bird
February
- The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
January
- The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- Dreaming of Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly
- Wish Upon A Star by Sarah Morgan
- Gun Games by Faye Kellerman
- Steampunk! edited by Kelly Link
- The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Lansdale
2011
December
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- Carrie Goes Off the Map by Phillipa Ashley
- Bring Me Home for Christmas by Robyn Carr
- Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe (Guest post)
November
- When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James (A)
- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
- A Regular Guy by Mona Simpson
October
- Hit Man by Lawrence Block (A)
- You Are My Only by Beth Kephart
- In Pursuit of Miss Eliza Cynster by Stephanie Laurens
- The Revisionist by Thomas Mullen
- Every Step You Take by Jock Soto
September
- Devotion: A Memoir by Dani Shapiro
- The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman (A)
- The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton
- Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (A)
- Goodie One Shoes by Roz Siegel
August
- Pirate King by Laurie R. King
- Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
- Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
- I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson (A)
- Deed to Death by D. B. Henson
- Grace Interrupted by Julie Hyzy
- Money Can’t Buy Love by Connie Briscoe
- What Momma Left Me by Renee Watson
- How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story by Tracy White
- The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock
- Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
July
- Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
- The Heroine’s Bookshelf by Erin Blakemore (A)
- Learning Curves by Elyse Mady
- 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
- Dear Pen Pal by Heather Vogel Fredrick (guest post)
- Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
- Original Sin by Beth McMullen
- Things We Didn’t Say by Kristina Riggle
- The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (A)
June
- The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (guest post)
- The Art of Saying Goodbye by Ellyn Bache
- Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn (A)
- Folly Beach by Dorothea Benton Frank
- The Case for the Only Child by Susan Newman
- Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (A)
- The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
- The Last Unicorn (Graphic Novel) by Peter S. Beagle
- The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair
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