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Add Exploding Pastries to My List of Wanted Weapons

May 17, 2016 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

First, a note of thanks to crystalclear for not wanting to bash my head in for how long this book sat on my desk, unread. It is her copy and I am a bad friend for not returning it to her in a timely fashion. Beware of friends who overcommit on their reading capacity, we’re a terrible liability to your own reading. 🙂 That being said, this is the final book of the Finishing School series, a prequel of sorts to The Parasol Protectorate series […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: faitningviolet, finishing school, gail carriger, Manners & Mutiny, steampunk

faintingviolet's CBR8 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: faitningviolet, finishing school, gail carriger, Manners & Mutiny, steampunk ·
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“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn’t something you get; it’s something you give”

June 12, 2015 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I am truly pleased that I have moved forward in 2015 with the intention of listening to more audio books, because I feel that I would not have been able to either get through or enjoy Shantaram to the level I did if I simply read the paper version. The paperback version of the book clocks in at nearly a thousand pages – heck the audio version is 43 hours long and took me two months to listen to (although I did take a break […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: faitningviolet, Gregory David Roberts, Humphrey Bower, India, Shantaram

faintingviolet's CBR7 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: faitningviolet, Gregory David Roberts, Humphrey Bower, India, Shantaram ·
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