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No Reaction to a Dead Body

15 Mar 201910 Mar 2019
I read Far from the Madding Crowd and was excited to watch the recent remake to compare it to what I imagined...... and was ridiculously disappointed! This is a second…
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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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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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One Thousand White Women

17 Feb 2019
This one is about the US Government making a deal with the Cheyenne tribe to provide 1,000 white women as wives/baby-makers to assist with assimilating native Americans into the white…
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Belittled Bookshelf

15 Feb 2019
I fall into the common mistake most bookworms have - rushing home on adrenaline with a bag full of new books from the library's book sale, aligning them on the…
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Happiness =Self Assessments

13 Feb 201914 Feb 2019
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha I encouraged a friend to read this book with me (if you've read my previous post…

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