Tag: novel
member name: Elizabeth V.
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June 19, 2008 09:50 AM EDT --
Recently, I read and reviewed THE SECRET SPEECH by Tom Rob Smith and noted that this book is a sequel to Smith's CHILD 44. I praised both books. My review of CHILD 44 bears repeating. It follows. . . .
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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.
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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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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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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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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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June 05, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
I started Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin but found it too put-downable so gave up on it.
Mistress of the Art of Death is supposed to be about investigations of the murders of . . .
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November 01, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
I just stopped reading a book by J.F. Freedman. Doesn't really matter which one it was ( House of Smoke ) because I didn't get far enough to say much about it.
I've never read this author . . .
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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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