Perfume - Patrick Suskind

                   
rhinoasramblings.blogspot.com     May 21, 2008            

Rating : 4.5/5Number of Pages : 263Reason for Reading : Book Awards Reading ChallengeSubtitled "The story of a murderer" you know you are in for something not particularly pleasant. It tells the story of a man (Jean-Baptiste Grenouille) who is born amid a rubbish dump and whose mother then... [read full story]                

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Wild Swans - Jung Chang

rhinoasramblings.blogspot.com     May 19, 2008          

Rating : 4.0/5Number of Pages : 666Reason for Reading : Book Awards Reading ChallengeAn autobiographical account of Jung Chang, her mother and her grandmother living in China. Her grandmother was one of the last generations to have her feet bound, a particularly painful procedure described in...                

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Lion's Honey - David Grossman

rhinoasramblings.blogspot.com     May 19, 2008          

Rating : 4.0/5Number of Pages : 155Series : Canongate Myth SeriesReason for Reading : Once Upon a Time II Challenge"The Myth of Samson" begins with with chapters 13-16 from the Book of Judges from the Authorised King James edition of The Bible. After this follows a commentary and discussion of...                

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Addicted? Me?

rhinoasramblings.blogspot.com     May 20, 2008          

OK so I am completely giving up on pretending I am not going to sign up for any more challenges. I doubt I will get everything read, but you never know it will certainly be fun trying!First is the Non-Fiction Five Challenge hosted by Joy origianlly posted here which I have been meaning to join...                

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Nightmares and Fairy Tales: Beautiful Beasts - Serena Valentino

rhinoasramblings.blogspot.com     May 21, 2008          

Rating : 4.0/5Number of Pages : 263Number in Series : #2 Nightmares and Fairy TalesReason for Reading : Graphic Novel Challenge, Once Upon a Time II ChallengeRagdoll Annabelle is back for another installment of stories tinged with horror and fairy tale elements in the second graphic novel in the...                

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