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Lessons in Chemistry (Book Review)
This is a book about a talented woman chemist seeking equality in the very condescending and chauvinist world of...
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The Priory of the Orange Tree (Book Review)
At 804 pages this novel is quite an undertaking, but I loved both Ead and Tané, and was glad...
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The Lincoln Highway (Book Review)
This is a diverting, circuitous, multi-layered, coming of age escapade, written extraordinarily well.
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Shantaram (Book Review with Quotes)
I now understand the criminal mind better, and got a deeper, more intimate glimpse of India than I'd had...
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The Last Garden in England (Book Review)
I’m always happy to read about women learning to get what they uniquely need.
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This is Happiness (Book Review)
This is a beautifully eloquent novel, with its poetic, evocative prose, which is sometimes funny, and often highly observant...
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Personal Librarian (Book Review)
This is historical fiction of the enormously talented, gutsy woman who served as J.P. Morgan's personal librarian, curator, and...
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Lions of Fifth Avenue (Book Review)
It was nice to read historical fiction that was not about war or pivoting around a true person.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land (Book Review)
I recommend this novel as one of the best I've read in quite a while. I predict it will...
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The Beach House (Book Review)
This was a breezy summer read, even though there were serious themes here of cancer, abuse, teen pregnancy, and...
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The Country of the Pointed Firs (Book Review)
This is a straight-forward novel, looking at simple lives and exploring universal themes, in a long ago beautiful place.