The last book you read...

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Greywalker by Kat Richardson. I liked it, but it was also a book I could put down too easily. Even though this one was urban fantasy, it felt more like a quiet mystery than a slam-bam thriller.
 

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I'm opening myself up to "mainstream" jabs here, but I recently finished EAT, PRAY, LOVE and I have to say it lived up to the hype...and then some. :) Currently reading my first Jodi Picoult novel, TENTH CIRCLE. Anyone read her? It's sold on the chick-lit shelf but, IMHO, is not really chick-lit at all. Why must so many books written by women have a pair of high-heeled legs slapped on its pink cover and be banished to the chick-lit shelf?
 

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I'm about 150 pages into Alex Scarrow's latest October Skies and it rocks the casbah.

And no I'm not saying that just becase he's a member of AW.
 

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Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim. Lyrical, beautiful, yet spare, and undeniably wrenching. Now I understand why the special features of the movie included the two main actors reading aloud from the novel.

Maryn, who put it on her Santa list
 

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I just finished Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey and I confess it was a bit of a "meh" for me. The story is much longer than what is contained in book 1 (book 2 is not out yet), and the story definitely has the potential for greatness... but the first book was a lot more buildup than payoff, and I felt like it was trying a bit too hard to be a Dark! Gritty! Fantasy!
 
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