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Books I Bought With My Christmas Gift Cards
So I usually milk my gift cards, stringing them out all year, but this time I shot my wad...
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The Accidental Empress (Book Review)
I enjoyed this book of historical fiction about the Empress SiSi (Elizabeth) married to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph...
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Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (Book Review with Quotes)
This book is billed as a novel, but it is a record of a fictitious woman poet being interviewed,...
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Lilac Girls (Book Review)
This book about the Ravensbruck all-women (non-Jew) concentration camp during WWII was harrowing and hard to read.
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Man in the Iron Mask (Book Review)
Well, first of all the scene on the cover never comes close to happening in the book. Secondly, the...
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Book Review)
I thoroughly enjoyed this 2017 Newberry Award winner that many said was the best book of 2016.
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The Winthrop Woman (Book Review)
I recommend this book highly to any one interested in the 1600's in New England (particularly Connecticut), for you...
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The Summer Before the War (book review)
It is a bittersweet–but more sweet than bitter– tale about (mostly) likable characters and the difficult times they find...
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Cloud Atlas (Book Review)
Wow. I give this stunning, thought provoking book, a rousing five stars. This is a most brilliant book, far...
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The Robe (Book Review)
I can't say enough good things about this book, and I give it an enthusiastic five stars. I think...
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Vanessa and Her Sister (Book Review)
This book is about the "Bloomsbury Group," which I didn't know much about before, even though I had heard...
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When the Emperor Was Divine (Book Review)
This books does not take long to read, but it is deeply affecting. I give it five stars.