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We-ell... not ALWAYS, but it's fun sometimes. Pushing Daisies.


Hello, all! How is the new year treating you? Good, I hope. We're off to a good start in 2015 and I hope it stays that way. Love is all around you.

But we're gonna talk about the past year for a post, specifically the books I read and reviewed. Pull up a chair and let's chat, why not?


Favorite Books:

The Secret Garden

The Night Circus

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

The Probable Future

Here on Earth

A Long, Long Sleep

The Cameo Necklace (A Cécile Mystery)

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

The Evil Seed

I am Jazz

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Candlelight For Rebecca

Changes For Kit

Kit Saves the Day

Happy Birthday, Kit!

Kit Learns a Lesson

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

The Hour I First Believed: A Novel

Sabbat Entertaining : Celebrating the Wiccan Holidays with Style

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives

My Secret: A PostSecret Book

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir


Least Favorite Books:


The Secret of Magic

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

The Sugar Queen

The Love Goddess' Cooking School

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir


Books That Made Me Want to Smack the Author(s):

All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Garden Spells

The Sugar Queen

The Love Goddess' Cooking School

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Rebecca and the Movies

Changes For Rebecca

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir

The Hour I First Believed: A Novel


Books That Felt Like a Sisyphean Ordeal:

The Secret of Magic

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

We Are Water: A Novel


Books That Helped Me Look at the World in a New Way:

The Secret Garden

TV's First Family

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

The Miniaturist

The Cameo Necklace (A Cécile Mystery)

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

I am Jazz

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese

From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Kit Saves the Day

Happy Birthday, Kit!

Kit Learns a Lesson

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Double Down: Game Change 2012

The Hour I First Believed: A Novel

We Are Water: A Novel

Sabbat Entertaining : Celebrating the Wiccan Holidays with Style

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives

Hidden Witness: African American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War

My Secret: A PostSecret Book

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir


Books I've Already Recommended to People:

The Secret Garden

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

I am Jazz

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Kit Saves the Day

Happy Birthday, Kit!

Double Down: Game Change 2012

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives


Most Disappointing Books:

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction

The Miniaturist

The Secret of Magic

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

The Goddess Chronicle

Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir

We Are Water: A Novel

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell


Most Depressing (as in Sadness-Inducing) Books:

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

The Miniaturist

The Secret of Magic

The Goddess Chronicle

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

The Hour I First Believed: A Novel

We Are Water: A Novel


Most Uplifting Books:

The Secret Garden

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese

Kit Saves the Day

Happy Birthday, Kit!

Kit Learns a Lesson

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir

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