en-US Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:09:47 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 201750876 343 Regina Porter 059324186X Kim 1 dnf 3.30 2024
author: Regina Porter
name: Kim
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2024
rating: 1
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date added: 2025/02/03
shelves: dnf
review:

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On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, of course, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially mass celebration. Flags are hung out on balconies; people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home—families are left to care for the permanently dying; life-insurance policies become meaningless; and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.

Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small "d," became human and were to fall in love?]]> 238 José Saramago 0151012741 Kim 1 dnf 3.97 2005
author: José Saramago
name: Kim
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
rating: 1
read at: 2024/10/03
date added: 2024/10/03
shelves: dnf
review:
Couldn't finish it. The punctuation (or lack of) drove me mad. Interesting concept but....
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But Lily is not the only one with secrets. Her next-door neighbor Carla may be only nine, but she has already learned that secrets are powerful things. That they can get her whatever she wants.

When Lily finds Carla on her doorstep twelve years later, a chain of events is set in motion that can end only one way.]]> 373 Jane Corry 0735220956 Kim 3 dnf 3.46 2016
author: Jane Corry
name: Kim
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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date added: 2023/09/08
shelves: dnf
review:
Just gave up after a while. It could have ended after part one and been a decent story. I felt it dragged on and on with little movement in the plot. After a while I didn’t care what happened to anyone. Three stars because some scenes were interesting and clever.
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