Tag: literature
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November 05, 2009 07:44 PM EST --
The Time Traveler's Wife is a non-traditional love story. Henry DeTamble is a Chicago librarian at the Newberry with what the author refers to as Chrono Displacement Disorder. This means that Henry randomly . . .
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April 02, 2006 03:37 PM EDT --
John Banville's The Sea is a novel that reads like poetry. Every word is carefully chosen to create powerful images and feelings. It's not hard to see why this was chosen for the most . . .
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October 16, 2009 02:55 PM EDT --
Last update I made was at book number 20. I have a lot of catching up to do as far as the posts go, but I have read at least 73 books at this point. Here are a few that I just got through . . .
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August 30, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
I was an avid reader as a child. There was nothing I liked better than getting to go to the library and take home a stack of "fresh" books. Some of my favorites were the popular mystery series . . .
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July 22, 2006 11:31 AM EDT --
I'll need to keep by review of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro short so as not to give away too much. A big part of what makes this an interesting read is the way one gradually gains an increased . . .
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July 24, 2006 12:30 PM EDT --
First I have to say that I was told that this book was depressing, so I put off reading it for a very long time. However, I found that even though the main character did live . . .
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May 14, 2007 11:47 PM EDT --
I don't read a lot of fantasy, but I do read a lot of teen literature (as a former young adult librarian). I just finished reading the book, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and it will go on record . . .
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August 13, 2006 09:11 PM EDT --
Imagine that you're a distance swimmer training for an upcoming event – one that you do not yet know will set a world record. You are seventeen-years-old and swimming in the cool Pacific just . . .
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July 18, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
On a cold winter's night in 1964, Norah Henry goes into labour. Unable to reach the hospital in time, her husband David, an orthopedic surgeon, and his nurse Caroline, assist Norah with the delivery. . . .
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May 07, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
The Seas, Samantha Hunt's debut novel, relates the coming of age story of a nameless 19-year-old young woman as she struggles to free herself from small town life and a terrifying destiny. Branded . . .
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July 02, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Dodecahedron: A Platonic Solid composed of twelve pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. It has twenty vertices and thirty edges. Definition from Wikipedia.org
Paul Glennon's The . . .
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August 17, 2006 04:00 AM EDT --
Bookcrossing is a website where people get together to share books. They first register their books on the site and then trade and borrow books from each other. They also send books around . . .
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January 04, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Review of Sergio Ruzzier's The Room of Wonders.
Pius Pelosi, the rat and hero of The Room of Wonders, collects many delightful things he discovers in the course of his daily routine: shiny keys, . . .
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March 26, 2006 11:18 AM EST --
Seeing "The Taming of George" at the top of today's Boston Globe along with a picture of Curious George being held by two policeman caught my attention. This interesting article . . .
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August 22, 2006 08:45 PM EDT --
"The Accidental" is a very creatively written book. Each chapter or section is written by a different point of view of the characters involved. And they are written as stream of thought, . . .
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June 01, 2006 06:17 AM EDT --
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
McClelland and Stewart Ltd: Toronto
0-7710-0863-5 2000 521pp
on Amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/rudx8
0385720955 ppbk August 2001 . . .
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January 15, 2006 12:56 PM EST --
Time for leisure reading was limited in 2005 due to the arrival of our first child this past summer, but I did still manage to read some good books;Below are my top recommendations from the year of reading: . . .
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August 27, 2006 07:24 PM EDT --
Okay, if you are a corporation or support corporations not having to pay taxes or to clean up their own toxic messes, this book is not for you, because you are already receiving all the good stuff . . .
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June 19, 2006 10:32 PM EDT --
"To me, the world of fiction has always been more satisfactory than the world of reality." Clare Morrall
Peter Straker lives in silent penance on the Devon coast in an old lighthouse, kept company . . .
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June 06, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
Read 50 Books from the 1001 Books List in 2008
Welcome Read 50 Books In One Year members and anyone who should happen across this list.
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