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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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on Monday, March 30 2009, 9:28pm
Sometimes books are just better when you listen to them. This is one of those books. One of the women I work with had read this book and when we were talking about it she recalled that I had both read and listened to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel...
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Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
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on Sunday, March 29 2009, 8:04pm
I have to admit, I am a fan of Gone With the Wind (1936). I know that may not be a very politically correct admission. Sure I like the movie, but Martha Mitchell's one-hit wonder introduced me to both epic novels and the genre of southern novels that...
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E Can Write More Than Songs
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on Tuesday, March 24 2009, 3:28pm
Mark Oliver Everett is probably better known simply as E, the lead singer and creative force behind the Eels, but a few months ago he published a memoir under his full name called Things the Grandchildren Should Know . He might be a little younger than...
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Bachelor Brothers by Bill Richardson
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on Saturday, March 21 2009, 1:41pm
A fellow blogger told me of Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast (1993) by Bill Richardson when I lamented about needing a light comforting book about small town/village life - the one I had read and blogged about I had been sorely disappointed in...
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Love & Death
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on Tuesday, March 17 2009, 11:42am
Sunday night I finished reading The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll . I still haven't figured out how I really feel about it. It's a little bit creepy, a little bit funny and a lot weird. It is a book that entertains, but also makes you think...
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"Death from the Skies" by Philip Plait
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on Friday, March 13 2009, 11:13am
The subtitle of this book is "These are the ways the world will end..." The cover features a glowing ball of fire, the Sun, headed right for our planet! I assumed this book wold be a humorous criticsim of extreme and erroneous doomsday views...
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Love the One You're With
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on Tuesday, March 10 2009, 5:06pm
Ever wonder what might have happened if "the one who got away" had ended up being just "the one"? And furthermore - if you had the opportunity to change your life, to go back for "the one who got away," would you? Love the...
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The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
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on Tuesday, March 10 2009, 4:39pm
I finished The Underneath (2008) by Kathi Appelt over the weekend. I am not sure what to say about it. The first thought I had was "why would anyone write this book?" It is a young readers/juvenile fiction book and a finalist for the National...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford
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on Tuesday, March 3 2009, 8:23pm
I am happy that I seldom listen to book critics. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel (2009) by Jamie Ford has gotten mixed reviews, one of which called it "flat" and "strained." I did not find it either. I very much enjoyed...
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
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on Monday, March 2 2009, 9:17pm
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (2005) is by Dai Sijie, a Chinese author who works in France and writes in French. So this is a Chinese novel, written in French, and translated into English. There is little lost in the translation. This is one of those...
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Defending the Written Word: The Book Thief
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on Monday, March 2 2009, 11:40am
The third and final selection in McCollough's Defending the Written Word book discussion series is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. An award-winning and best-selling novel, it is a searing and moving work set in Nazi Germany. The main character is...
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