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JitterbugPerfume

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7. Just finishing Antarctica

Sun Jun 10, 2012, 11:24 AM

Jun 2012

and it is pure Kim Stanley Robinson, which is to say excellent. I have the last 150 pages to go and I really don't want to fiinish it because this book is just that good.

Next will be something by Luis Alberto Urrea. He was interviewed on Book TV and he was very impressive . I almost immediately bought The Devils Highway and The Hummingbird's Daughter. This will be a departure from my recent genre, I like to mix it up occasionally.

I think I have seen The Hummingbird's Daughter mentioned here. If you read it, how was it? Did you like it? adore it? slog through it? Have you read anything else written by him?

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