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Africa with Missing Plot

7 Aug 201925 Jul 2019
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen I think I misheard someone telling me this was a good book to read. My mother handed me a copy of this book but…
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Impressive Voices in The Bridge of Little Jeremy

1 Aug 201925 Jul 2019
Link to  Indrajit Garai's  The Bridge of Little Jeremy - Kindle Edition Relaxed. Anxious. Surprised! Impressed. That's how I would describe reading through this fictional tale of a young boy's adventure in Paris…
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Into the Water

11 Jul 201929 Jun 2019
Into the Water - by Paula Hawkins This novel from 2017 is a thriller/murder mystery about family secrets and a small village with a history of finding dead "trouble-some" women…
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Bathsheba is the Gorgeous One?

5 Mar 20192 Mar 2019
Far from the Madding Crowd by  Thomas Hardy Every time the main character's radiant beauty was described I pictured a resilient, independent, hardworking woman that took over the farm instead…
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Pulitzer Prize on Small Town Connections

3 Mar 2019
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Reviewed by The Oprah Magazine & winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this novel from 2008 can be summed up as a stroll through the boring…
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Continued Racism (Bluebird, Bluebird)

26 Feb 2019
A black Texas Ranger is a very rare thing to see in East Texas according to this story; the classic star badge brings about trouble for a man looking to…
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The [Surprising!] Surrogate

22 Feb 201917 Feb 2019
Surrogacy would have been a ludicrous solution centuries ago and of course there are groups against the practice today for varied reasons. However it is becoming more acceptable since being…
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SomeoneSickness

20 Feb 201917 Feb 2019
Poetry with lines that are heartfelt and filled with longing to find the right kind of love as a young woman... you can see how the author uses the power…
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Where’d Ya Go, Bernadette?

19 Feb 201917 Feb 2019
Quirky and dynamic! Movie will be released in August 2019! The author, Maria Semple, wrote for popular TV shows Arrested Development and Mad About You - this book carries the…
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Naked, Drunk and Writing

18 Feb 201917 Feb 2019
I love this title for being blunt and relatable.  Must admit I start a good number of my poems while "in the cups"! This book can serve as a great…

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