<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>2005 Book Reviews @ tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</title><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/</link><description>(2005 Book Reviews) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>2005 Book Reviews @ tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Adult books 2005</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/adult_books_2005.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/adult_books_2005.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=adult%5Fbooks%5F2005</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here are the adult books I read this year! To be honest, a lot of the chick lit ones are all starting to blur together. But there were some I really liked, some I loved, and a few I hated.Bold = really enjoyed it, Red = favourite of the year, Blue =]]></description></item><item><title>I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/i_have_a_bed_made_of_buttermilk_pancakes.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/i_have_a_bed_made_of_buttermilk_pancakes.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fhave%5Fa%5Fbed%5Fmade%5Fof%5Fbuttermilk%5Fpancakes</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes]]></description></item><item><title>Mike Nelson&apos;s Death Rat!: A Novel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/mike_nelsons_death_rat__a_novel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/mike_nelsons_death_rat__a_novel.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mike%5Fnelsons%5Fdeath%5Frat%5F%5Fa%5Fnovel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of Mike Nelson's Death Rat! : A Novel]]></description></item><item><title>Bite</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/bite.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/bite.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bite</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of Bite]]></description></item><item><title>Getting Home</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/getting_home.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/getting_home.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=getting%5Fhome</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of Getting Home]]></description></item><item><title>The Summer of Us</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_summer_of_us.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_summer_of_us.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsummer%5Fof%5Fus</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of The Summer of Us]]></description></item><item><title>The Garden Angel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_garden_angel.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_garden_angel.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgarden%5Fangel</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of The Garden Angel]]></description></item><item><title>The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_second_assistant_a_tale_from_the_bottom_of_the_hollywood.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_second_assistant_a_tale_from_the_bottom_of_the_hollywood.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fsecond%5Fassistant%5Fa%5Ftale%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fbottom%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fhollywood</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Review of The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder]]></description></item><item><title>My Fake Wedding</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/my_fake_wedding.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/my_fake_wedding.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 02:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffake%5Fwedding</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After being cheated on by her latest boyfriend, Katie, a tall redhead who eats like a horse and has the manners of a pig, makes a New Year's resolution to have lots of one-night stands. Katie's friends, bosomy, bitchy Janice, gay and thoughtless Geo]]></description></item><item><title>Every Boy&apos;s Got One</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/every_boys_got_one.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/every_boys_got_one.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=every%5Fboys%5Fgot%5Fone</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just love Meg Cabot's adult chick-lit novels!! They're always great fun and in one of my favourite genres - epistolary. (Is that a genre?) In this one, Jane Harris (creator of the cartoon Wondercat) is off to a small town in Italy with her eloping]]></description></item><item><title>Life Mask</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/life_mask.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/life_mask.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=life%5Fmask</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I loved Emma Donoghue's first novel, Slammerkin, so was very excited to find out that she had another huge historical novel out. This one is also set in the 18th century, but among the aristocracy. It's based on an epigram written about the widowed s]]></description></item><item><title>His &apos;n&apos; Hers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/his_n_hers.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/his_n_hers.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=his%5Fn%5Fhers</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lots of spoilers - if you like Mike Gayle's work, read no further (although it's not exactly an unpredictable story).Mike Gayle writes British boy fluff, rather than my usual British chick fluff. And I always really notice the  blokey difference (whi]]></description></item><item><title>Speechless</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/speechless.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/speechless.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=speechless</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Libby McIssac is known to her friends as Flower Girl, because she's caught over a dozen bridal bouquets since the age of 8. No matter how hard she tries to avoid them, they sail right at her. Despite all this flowery karma, she's still looking for lo]]></description></item><item><title>Husband Material</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/husband_material.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/husband_material.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=husband%5Fmaterial</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[British chick-lit novels seem to keep being modelled on Pride and Prejudice. In this one, 40-something divorced mother of 2 Amanda works for her shrewish &quot;friend&quot; Louise in an art gallery specializing in boring and often dreadful prints of]]></description></item><item><title>Shout Down the Moon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/shout_down_the_moon.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/shout_down_the_moon.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=shout%5Fdown%5Fthe%5Fmoon</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Patty Ann is a struggling singer and the young mother of 2 year-old Willie. Willie and music are her life, but her life has been full of sadness. Willie's father Rick has just gotten out of prison and it has changed him for the worst. Patty's band ne]]></description></item><item><title>Pure Fiction</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/pure_fiction.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/pure_fiction.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pure%5Ffiction</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Booklist described this book as a &quot;literary soap opera.&quot; When local librarian Bronwen posts a notice for a &quot;reading circle,&quot; a motley crew shows up for the first meeting. Stay-at-home dad Ed with baby Georgia, young single mother]]></description></item><item><title>The Dewey Decimal System of Love</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_dewey_decimal_system_of_love.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_dewey_decimal_system_of_love.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdewey%5Fdecimal%5Fsystem%5Fof%5Flove</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was very excited about this one, since I love to read about librarians. But overall, it was just okay. I did enjoy the accurate portrayal of public library life (see below), but it felt a bit rushed in places. The conclusion came very abruptly. And]]></description></item><item><title>The Great Fire</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_great_fire.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/the_great_fire.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreat%5Ffire</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This was a book club book. I didn't hate it, as I have some of the depressing Oprah-like ones, but I found the first two-thirds of it really dull. Once things started happening, I enjoyed it more, but then, too much happened all at once, which was r]]></description></item><item><title>Paradise Fields</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/paradise_fields.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/paradise_fields.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=paradise%5Ffields</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This one took me a while to read, since it was my exercise-bike book and I've been a bit lax in that department lately. But I always enjoy Katie Fforde (and love her quintessentially British last name!). In another pleasant offering, 40ish widow Nel]]></description></item><item><title>Green Grass</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/green_grass.htm</guid><link>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/green_grass.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=green%5Fgrass</comments><dc:creator>Tiny Little Librarian</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(I'd say 2 1/2 stars, actually.) I thought that this would be the third in Barker's series about Venetia Summers and her family (Hens Dancing, Summertime) and was disappointed to find it wasn't.  The Summers family does make a guest appearance as n]]></description></item></channel></rss>