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February 18, 2011 / Leslie

Friday Finds ~ February 18th

What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share your FRIDAY FINDS! This weekly event is hosted by Should Be Reading.
 

I read a review for this book a few days ago at Leeswammes’ Blog that aroused my interest. I generally enjoy books that personify animals, ie Watership Down, but this book has stuffed animals as their characters. It’s a murder mystery story that takes place in a town of stuffed animals! How fun does that sound? Yes, I like quirky too.

Tourquai: A Novel by Tim Davys

A horrific crime sets off a disturbing chain of events in Tim Davy’s Mollisan Town. Like George Orwell’s Animal Farm, as well as the allegorical worlds of Neil Gaiman and Jasper Fforde, this sinister sequel to Lanceheim and Amberville illuminates our reality through a giddy paradoxical conceit—as in Tourquai, the stuffed animals who populate Mollisan Town will be forced to confront the deepest issues of love and servitude, free will and destiny, life and death.

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  1. Leeswammes / Feb 18 2011 1:19 pm
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    I will be giving this book away in the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop so don’t forget to check my blog tomorrow so you can enter. Yes, the book was great fun!

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  2. Rebecca Rasmussen / Feb 18 2011 1:41 pm
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    This looks really interesting! I am in!

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  3. Suko / Feb 18 2011 3:34 pm
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    I hadn’t heard of this book before! It does sound like a fun book. I hope you’ll enjoy it. 🙂

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  4. gautami tripathy / Feb 19 2011 6:58 am
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    This is an awesome find!

    Here is my Friday Find: The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (1958).

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