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No Time for Goodbye, by Linwood Barclay | The Reading Monk
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The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. No Time for Goodbye, by Linwood Barclay. March 2, 2009 in Book Reviews. Ever wondered what it would be like to have an argument with your parents, tell them you wished they were dead, go to bed and wake up the next morning to discover that you are all alone in your house with everyone else all missing? Someone out there knows everything and is slowly stripping away the layers of mystery, leading the Archers closer to solving the disappearance of Cynthia&...
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The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng | The Reading Monk
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The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng. February 13, 2009 in 1. As part of my online collaboration with Culturazzi Cognoscente Club. The rest of my review can be read here. I’m currently reading …. Next Book Review …. The Monk Has Moved! The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. The Book Thief by Ma…. On The Book Thief, by Markus…. Speed Reviews - Mixt…. On When Ghosts Speak, by Mary Ann…. Ken Lee, by...
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Verdicts & Ratings | The Reading Monk
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The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. Books are read, reviewed and rated against a scale of 0 to 5. The basis of this scale is as follows:. I abandoned the book after first 100 Pages. Failed the Monk’s 100-Page Test. Waste of paper, I got duped by the nice cover. Skip it, read the book if you have got nothing else better to do. An average book, easily forgettable. A good entertaining read, page turner. A good entertaining read, I would pester everyone to read it. My thanks to Jovenus. Roy St...
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When Ghosts Speak, by Mary Ann Winkowski | The Reading Monk
https://readingmonk.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/when-ghosts-speak-by-mary-ann-winkowski
The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. When Ghosts Speak, by Mary Ann Winkowski. March 8, 2009 in 1. Her ability to see and communicate with ghosts is something she has had since her early childhood, nurtured and honed by her grandmother, who also had the same gift. In. Winkowski describes what a typical encounter is like and explains what she does to help these souls of departed people some of whom have lingered on on earth for centuries. I have been reading and collecting books on the paran...
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All Things Niffenegger | The Reading Monk
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The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. April 9, 2009 in 1. I still haven’t finished reading The Time Traveler’s Wife. I shan’t go too much into it now lest this becomes a mini review of an unfinished book. Reading The Time Traveler’s Wife. Made me curious about who Audrey Niffenegger is so I wikied her and discovered the following:-. In South Haven, Michigan. She is also a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago. Niffenegger’s debut novel,.
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20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill | The Reading Monk
https://readingmonk.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/20th-century-ghosts-by-joe-hill
The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill. March 23, 2009 in Book Reviews. Is a collection of short stories by Joe Hill, whose real identity is Joseph Hillstrom King – son of the horror-meister, Stephen King. My wife got this book for me as a Valentine’s Day gift because I’d been harping on about how good the reviews were. I quickly finished the other books I’d started on to finally get to this one. But was I in for a major. You’ll Hear the Locusts Sing. I didn&#...
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The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini | The Reading Monk
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The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. March 24, 2009 in Award Winners. 8220;For you,. A thousand times over.”. These words still bring tears to my eyes and cause a lump in my throat, even now, weeks after I finished reading and very proudly displayed Khaled Hosseini’s. And his relationship with Hassan, the son of Ali who is a servant in Amir’s palatial house in the Wazir Akhbar Khan district in Kabul. Ali is a Hazara. Where they go after Amir comes home f...
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The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink | The Reading Monk
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The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink. March 7, 2009 in Book Reviews. This is an excerpt of my book review written for Culturazzi Cognoscente Club. With whom I am currently collaborating and contributing to. The full review may be read by clicking on this link. Read the rest of the review here. I’m currently reading …. Next Book Review …. The Monk Has Moved! The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.
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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy | The Reading Monk
https://readingmonk.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy
The Monk’s Take on Books and the World Around Him. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. March 17, 2009 in Book Reviews. By Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2006. It was also adapted into a movie starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Man and Boy, respectively. Oprah’s Book Club picked this book as one of its selections for 2007. McCarthy is also the author of other notable titles such as. No Country for Old Men. A profound story ...
