SmileySusan rated The kite runner: 4 stars
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Avid book collector. This just means I own more books than I've read. Fan of #horror, #fantasy and #historical fiction, but open to other genres. Based somewhere near the Austin airport, as it helps me visit bookstores and coffee shops around the world. USN vet. ✈
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SmileySusan rated Water for Elephants: 5 stars
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini …
SmileySusan rated Bud, not Buddy: 5 stars
Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets …
SmileySusan rated The Light Between Oceans: 4 stars
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
The Light Between Oceans is a 2012 Australian historical fiction novel by M. L. Stedman, her debut novel, published by …
SmileySusan rated Angels & Demons: 5 stars
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Robert Langdon, #1)
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the …
SmileySusan rated Specials: 4 stars
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society …
SmileySusan rated The Battle of the Labyrinth: 4 stars
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
The Battle of the Labyrinth is an American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is …
SmileySusan rated The Hobbit: 5 stars
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
SmileySusan rated The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: 5 stars
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, Oliver Jeffers
The international bestseller that has touched millions of readers around the world is now available in a deluxe illustrated edition, …
SmileySusan rated To Kill a Mockingbird: 3 stars
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its oritinal publication …
SmileySusan rated Map of Bones: 5 stars
Map of Bones by James Rollins
The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and …
SmileySusan rated City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1): 3 stars
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) by Cassandra Clare
City of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's New York Times bestselling series The Mortal …
SmileySusan rated The Lost City of Z: 5 stars
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration …
SmileySusan rated The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963: 4 stars
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 (2000, Dell Laurel Leaf)
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (Laurel Leaf Newberry)
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed …
SmileySusan rated Snuff: 5 stars
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
A full-frontal triple-X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before. A porn star intends to …