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heavenali.wordpress.com
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| | | | | If I wrote only one book review this month (that is now looking fairly certain) the book review I had to write was this one. Despite having another terrible month in blogging terms, I have enjoyed what I have been reading, and the highlight of the month has been this long awaited biography of one... | |
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whatmeread.com
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| | | | | Abigail Peacock and her father are regretting the impetuous desire for adventure that led them to journey thousands of miles from England to a remote village in northwestern Ontario to run a school. In 1885 the living conditions are primitive, and Abigail's father has fallen ill in the depths of winter. Abigail continues to run... | |
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marketgardenreader.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Prompt: Book Pairings, i.e. pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it's a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction book you've read and you would like recommendations for background reading. Or two books on two different areas have chimed... | |
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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | ||