Rated A Prayer for Owen Meany 10/10
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Wants to read 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
Wants to read Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
Rated Sorcerer to the Crown 8/10
A real delight. Zen Cho manages to a bunch of things really well - build a convincing, coherent world with clever magical rules and norms, a plot with a lot of surprises and a lot of threads that lock together, some really sharp analysis of how race/gender/class operate - and also makes it a fun, quick read. Imagine the Ministry of Magic as told by Edith Wharton - adventure and wordplay and a dark creepy underside.
Rated Drinking at the Movies 6/10
Wants to read White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Rated Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper 10/10
Papercraft 2 is certainly a book I would recommend to anyone with an appreciation for the visual arts, no matter the discipline. The artists featured explore what is possible with the material in such wide-ranging ways, and it almost makes a non-crafty person like myself want to pick up an x-acto knife and fool around with some cardstock. This is expert, beautiful work, and I will often revisit it.<br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/09/book-review-papercraft-2-design-and-art-with-paper-edited-by-robert-klanten-and-b-meyer/#">Persephone Magazine</a>.)