Tag: fiction
member name: Elizabeth V.
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July 06, 2008 07:57 PM EDT --
I'd never read any of Silva's books. The Messenger 's story promised to be an interesting one: Israeli spy helps U.S. track down and get rid of man who finances Islamic terrorists. But at the halfway . . .
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July 10, 2009 08:04 PM EDT --
1. The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman Polish Catholic zookeepers hide Jews.
2. The Best Cat Ever by Cleveland Amory Cat ownership is funny but precious.
3. . . .
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July 06, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET , Jamie Ford’s first book, tells the touching story of Henry Lee, a Chinese-American, and his childhood friendship with and ongoing love for Keiko . . .
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July 23, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
IN THE WOODS by Tana French is a novel about the investigation into the death of a child. But it is more complex than that; much more is going on with the people involved.
A . . .
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April 02, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
Last year I began reading Hush Money by Robert Parker. I read about half the book and felt I was wasting time. I liked half of his subject matter, but the other half (about a goofy sex pot client), . . .
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May 14, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
Everyone likes a not-put-downable book, the kind that keeps them up at night, the kind they even bring to the dinner table. Harlan Coben's novels are like that. The first of his that I read, No Second . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny is a mystery that is very different from your usual mystery. That's why I read it.
The story takes place in Canada around the time of the U.S. Civil War, maybe . . .
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July 12, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
The program in Stephen White’s THE PROGRAM is the Witness Security Program (WITSEC), better known as the Witness Protection Program. Designed to protect people who testify at trials for . . .
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April 08, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
I think "I don't want to join a book club" is the name of a book I read part of and disliked so never finished, but that's not what this is about.
I really don't want . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
Don't forget, The Memory Keeper's Daughter will be a movie on Lifetime this Sasturday (4/12) at 9 p.m.
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May 06, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
This post was supposed to be a review of Mary Doria Russell's Children of God . But I thought, if people read that book title, they probably won't click the article because it sounds like a religion . . .
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August 23, 2009 06:58 PM EDT --
Lisa Gardner’s SAY GOODBYE begins with a sex scene between a slutty girl and a high school football star. You’re safe in assuming that Chapter 1 and the next several chapters aren’t . . .
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March 27, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
I've had Hush Money by Robert B. Parker laying around unread for a year or so. I never read anything by Parker because I've seen so many of his books it seemed to me that he just spit them . . .
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July 14, 2009 05:33 PM EDT --
A young Irish woman, Eva, has left Ireland to pursue a career as a classic violinist in New York. (And we can’t forget her cat, Ming, apparently a New York cat, not an Irish one, who figures . . .
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August 16, 2009 09:06 AM EDT --
Mary Pat Kelly’s GALWAY BAY is a 551-page story of the Keeley and Kelly families beginning in Ireland in 1839 all the way to their lives in Chicago and their get-together at the Chicago . . .
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October 06, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
I just got an email from Border’s Rewards with Oprah’s latest book pick, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I already read that book several months ago. I’m happy . . .
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April 20, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
I know "Children of God" sounds religious, but it's not, although a major character is a Jesuit preist. I'm about to begin this book. I read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, and . . .
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July 26, 2009 08:08 PM EDT --
Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story within a story. One is the clever telling of the other.
At a café in Pakistan, a Pakistani man tells his story to an American . . .
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March 12, 2008 01:08 PM EDT --
I'm about to start reading a book that just came out yesterday, _Dreamers of the Day_ by Mary Doria Russell. This is historical fiction about the Cairo Peace Conference in the 1920s and the creation . . .
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