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 Sonderbooks 88

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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
In this site, you can find good books for yourself or for friends.
You can hear about books to read, talk about books you've read, and order your own copies.
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Happy reading!

November 18, 2004

Nonfiction

*****Count Down, by Steve Olson
****The Middle of Everywhere, by Mary Pipher
****A Woman's Passion for Travel, edited by Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael
***Fly Fishing the River of Second Chances, by Jennifer Olsson
***Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
**The (Mis)behavior of Markets, by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
**Italy in Mind, edited by Alice Leccese Powers

Fiction

*****The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
****The Sunday Philosophy Club, by Alexander McCall Smith
***The Dragon Quintet, edited by Marvin Kaye

Young Adult Fiction

*****Enna Burning, by Shannon Hale

Children's Nonfiction

***Everything Dolphin, by Marty Crisp

Children's Fiction

***The End of the Beginning, by Avi

Old Favorite

(Young Adult Fiction):  *****The Crown of Dalemark, by Diana Wynne Jones

Picture Book Pick

***Here Comes Our Bride! by Ifeoma Onyefulu
 

Quotation of the Week

“Wisdom is caring for afterwards. . . .
Choose the afterwards first, then the action.
Fools choose action first.”

—words of a dragon in “Judgment,” by Elizabeth Moon,
from The Dragon Quintet, edited by Marvin Kaye

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