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Ten-pages-in book review: The Historian

27 June 2006

I started writing my ten-pages-in book reviews after a book so knocked my socks off that I was worried I’d never love a book in the same way again. That book, The Time Traveler’s Wife, was easily one of the best books I’ve ever read.
Here we are, just over a year later, and I’ve finally [...]

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Ten-pages-in book review: The Unwritten Girl

16 June 2006

I’m trying to diversify my 10-pages-in book reviews a little bit. I’ve worked in some memoirs, a travelogue, plenty of CanLit, some anthologies and a pulp mystery. Today, we venture into the world of young-adult oriented fantasy in a charming book called The Unwritten Girl.
It’s a classic quest tale with a literary twist. [...]

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10-pages-in book review: Come Back

1 May 2006

Today’s review is being written not at the 10-pages-in point, but after I have read the whole book. I’m glad I finished the book before I posted my review, too, because had I written it before I finished the book, it would likely have been a much less favourable review.
Today’s book is Come Back: A [...]

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10-pages-in book review: Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw

18 April 2006

This is the 15th edition of the 10-pages-in book review, and one of my favourite books to date. I’m reading Will Ferguson’s Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, and you can officially add Will Ferguson to my list of literary crushes, along with Douglas Coupland and Nick Hornby.
Will Ferguson has a lot in common with Douglas [...]

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10-pages-in book review: Behind the Scenes at the Museum

15 March 2006

I’m a little bit shy of 100 pages in to Kate Atkinson’s 1995 debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum, but from page one I was hooked. The protagonist launches herself at the reader with the declarative first two-word sentence, “I exist!” at the moment of her conception, and drags you with her as [...]

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(More than) 10-pages-in book review – Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined

24 February 2006

In a rare exception to my (patent pending) ten-pages-in book review, today’s review comes after I have voraciously consumed and thoroughly enjoyed the entire book.
Today I have the great honour of hosting a stop on the blog book tour for Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined. This book is an anthology of small works [...]

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10-pages-in book review: Woman First, Family Always

15 February 2006

I’ve been agonizing over this review.
About a month ago, I received an e-mail out of the blue, asking me if I’d be interested in receiving a book to review. I was so excited and proud to have been deemed worthy of solicitation! (Yes, I am easy to please.)
Before I get into the actual review of [...]

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10-pages-in book review: A Long Way Down

12 January 2006

One of the best parts of the holidays is having a little bit of extra time for reading, once the chaos that is Christmas abates. By sheer luck, my turn in the queue for Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down came up after a wait of several weeks just in time for me to indulge [...]

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Ten-pages-in book review: The Penelopiad

6 January 2006

Time for another 10-pages-in book review. I’m a little less than a third of the way through Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, but it’s a surprisingly quick and easy read and if I don’t write this now I’ll be done the book soon.
The Penelopiad is one of the first three books in an ambitious series called [...]

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Ten-pages-in book review: Blood Memory

20 December 2005

By special request for James, who happened to ask the other day if I had any forthcoming 10-pages-in book reviews just about the time I was thinking of writing one.
I come by my love of reading honestly – one of my dominant memories from childhood is of my mother curled up around a good book. [...]

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