Tag: novels
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May 06, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
I recently joined this group on Gather because I do typically read somewhere around 50 to 60 novels in a year. I never kept exact track though.
I sat down this morning to try to compile a list . . .
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August 08, 2008 08:39 AM EDT --
It's getting difficult to page back to this list in my articles. So here's my updated list in my quest to read 50 books in 2008. I still suspect that I missed at least 2-3 from early on in . . .
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December 30, 2008 03:35 PM EST --
Well, I almost made it. I just finished #45 today. I'll begin the first of three "deadly" novels by Heather Graham tonight. I don't forsee finishing the first one until 2009. So, . . .
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June 02, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
I thought I'd dash off a quick recommendation for "Company" by Max Barry before returning it to the library. This satirical poke at life in corporate America is a fun and fast-past . . .
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August 02, 2007 03:48 PM EDT --
Beginning this month, HarperCollins is featuring the best of their nonfiction books and authors in the new group Bright Ideas from Bestselling Authors. Bright Ideas will introduce you to at least two new . . .
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October 16, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
I wasn't going to post this till next month, but since Pam made the request for her group, here is my updated books read in 2009 list.
Deadly Night - Heather Graham Deadly Harvest - Heather Graham Deadly . . .
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August 11, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
The Traveler - John Twelve Hawks
This is the first in a series (I doubt I'll read the others)
Using current technology tweaked a bit into what it can become in the future, this author creates . . .
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August 15, 2008 12:59 PM EDT --
This is yet another novel I decided to pick up based on the flyleaf summary and it's also my first experience with Elizabeth Brundage. Somebody Else's Daughter is a fantastic read that combines . . .
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January 03, 2009 09:27 AM EST --
The idea for this article actually came from a comment on my 2008 books read list from Amanda. Since I don't think she ever came back to read the answer I left for her, I thought this subject might . . .
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March 18, 2006 11:56 AM EST --
Prior to reading Links by Nuruddin Farah, my primary image of the Somali civil war came from the movie Black Hawk Down. Seeing the American involvement in Somalia from the perspective of Somalis . . .
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August 08, 2007 04:10 PM EDT --
In this age of the Internet, snail mail has become known as, well, “snail mail"--a slow, outdated form of communication. People are even receiving and paying their bills online these days. Although . . .
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March 22, 2009 10:47 PM EDT --
Pam H's recent post reminded me that I didn't post an initial article for this endeavor. So here it is.
In 2008, I fell short of my goal by 5 novels and only read 45 total. I am going to . . .
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September 25, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
Many of you have probably read Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, which I just finished. I started it somewhat reluctantly because I'd heard so much hype about it, but, having now read it, I can . . .
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September 05, 2006 07:59 AM EDT --
Emily Maguire is a Sydney novelist, essayist and English teacher. She has an MA in English Literature and divides her time between teaching English and writing.
Her articles on sex, religion, culture . . .
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August 19, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Harper Connelly is invited to a class on the occult to demonstrate her gift for finding dead bodies. When she finds not one, but two bodies in one of the graves, everyone is shocked . . .
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August 08, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
raising the pentagon - Robin L. Stratton
Along the lines of the Celestine Prophecy, it's a novel that is trying to tell you how to live your life. At least there's only one life rule - believe . . .
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February 15, 2007 09:36 PM EST --
Discussing religion and spirituality in SF/F literature is complicated by three main facts. The first being that there’s just so much interesting . . .
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October 05, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Saturday will mark the end of Banned Books Week. Many of the books, we literary minded folks take for granted, To Kill A Mockingbird and Beloved, have once been a banned or challenged work. These . . .
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May 05, 2009 09:27 PM EDT --
This book review was written by Gather member Erin S., and I post it here with her permission. Gather member A. F Stewart, herself a fine fantasy writer, has also posted a review of this book.
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December 16, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
I just noticed that the second edition of No Sensible People (the one with the cover designed by my son, that's my icon right now) is available on Amazon.com, under ISBN 978-0557023189. It's . . .
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