Will
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
“I’m loving it! I just cried today, and I’m not even done with it yet, I still have 100 pages to go. It’s about a Chinese-American girl who is more American than Chinese and is not interested in getting in touch with her Chinese heritage. When her aunt comes to visit from China, she doesn’t quite warm up to her. She’s a typical eleven year old and is more interested in playing basketball than learning about her family’s Chinese culture. But of course, things are starting to change. It’s a chapter book for kids on a middle grade reading level.”
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Merrilee
Vienna Secrets: A Max Lieberman Mystery by Frank Tallis
“This is the last book in a series. I read the first book in the series for the Rewritten History Book Club. It takes place in fin-de-siècle Vienna (which is French for ‘turn of the century’), at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It’s about a police detective in Vienna and his friend who’s a medical doctor and getting into this brand new thing called Psychology. He’s studying the work of Sigmund Freud, who is The Man in Vienna at the time. The doctor is using psychology to help the detective solve cases. In this book, two priests/friars get decapitated in two different churches across town from each other and the detective and doctor are trying to figure out what happened. I really like this series.”
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Joe
It’s So Easy: and other lies by Duff McKagan
“This is the new memoir by Duff McKagan, the old Seattle punk rocker and bass player for Guns ‘N Roses. It’s the story of the music, his falling into addiction and coming out of it. And it’s adorable! Adorable! Duff McKagan is adorable! He’s like a little puppy and I want to take him home and take care of him.”
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Clint
I Want My MTV by Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum
“This is an uncensored oral history of the early days of MTV, complete with big hair, fog machines and mounds of cocaine. It’s a thrilling ride through my childhood. I loved it. And Prince is really funny.”
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Scott
Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman
“I’m about to read Some Buried Cesar for the next History of Mystery class, which is considered the most entertaining Nero Wolfe book written. This morning I just finished Hurt Machine. It’s the last book in Coleman’s Moe Prager series. I’m two chapters in and it’s already breaking my heart. Coleman is a Seamus Award-winner and is my favorite P. I. author right now. That’s not even an opinion. He is the best guy righting P. I. crime fiction right now.”
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