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33. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld I read  Uglies  a while ago, and ran across this at the library. I like the concept of the series--a world where everyone is cosmetically and neurally changed/enhanced--but I can't bring myself to care that much about the characters. I may or may not pick up the rest of the series at some point. 34. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights Salman Rushdie My favorite Salman Rushdie so far. Also, totally contradicts the assertions of my fiction workshop leader that the intrusive nineteenth century style third-person narrator is dead. "They" are very much alive in Rushdie's book, written from the perspective of the future of tumultuous years in their past (and our future). There are jinn. 35. All the Queen's Players by Jane Feather Found this in an antiques shop, and they gave it to me for free. It skews more toward romance than historical fiction, but actually an interesting perspective on the Babington plot.I ...

I've kept up with my reading, but not with my reviews. Only so much leisure time in this busy grad student's life. After these mini-reviews, I may stop posting reviews for every book I read and instead post reflections on literary happenings and movements, responses to other reviewers and bloggers etc. *These posts are assignments for a journalism class that I'm taking, which are first and foremost for class and will be posted on the blog only after being used for class purposes.* 33. Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings I finally read the third book in David Eddings' genre fantasy cycle The Malloreon , which follow some of the same characters in the same fantasy world from the earlier series The Belgariad . These books feel a lot darker, which is perhaps appropriate as the characters explore the realm of Mallorea, formerly the dominion of evil god Torak and discover that the "bad guys" are just as complex and fractured as the "good guys." ...