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The San Jose Book Group Expo – Day One – CARIBOUSMOM

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Face To Face Book Club Reads. 5 Under 35 Awards. 100 Most Influential Novels By Women Writers. 1001 Books To Read Before You Die. Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (Winners and Nominees) 2013 – present. Bellwether Prize for Fiction: 2000 – Present. Booker Award Winners and Finalists: 1969 Present. Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books: 2007 Present. Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best Book): 1987 Present. Commonwealth Writers Prize Winners and Finalists: 2007-2013. New York Times Most Notable: 2002 Present.

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Unread Authors: The Colour, by Rose Tremain - Wendy's Review

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008. The Colour, by Rose Tremain - Wendy's Review. From The Colour, page 57-. Joseph Blackstone longed to do something that would please his mother. Something definitive. Something which would undo all that he’d done wrongly or inadequately in the past. He thought that if he could achieve this, then he would rest. From The Colour, page 55-. From The Colour, page 223-. Better that we never know. She wrote to her father). From The Colour, page 168-. Lilian, too, grows from a difficult ...

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Unread Authors: The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker - Wendy's Review

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Friday, December 26, 2008. The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker - Wendy's Review. It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognize the thoroug and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both…. From The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by R.L. Stevenson -. The second novel in Pat Barker’s WWI trilogy -. The Eye in the Door.

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Unread Authors: Unread Authors Challenge Rules

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Friday, August 31, 2007. Unread Authors Challenge Rules. Here I go, joining the fray of Book Challengedom by, at long last, starting my own challenge: the Unread Authors Challenge. Here are the rules of the Challenge, which will run from September to February. 1) In this time, read six books by authors you have never read before. If you would like to read more in this time frame, go for it! 3) Write a blog entry that links back to this post and lists the authors and works you have chosen. 6 The Kite Runn...

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Unread Authors: The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro - Wendy's Review

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Sunday, September 28, 2008. The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro - Wendy's Review. From The View From Castle Rock, Introduction-. We can’t resist this rifling around in the past, sifting the untrustworthy evidence, linking stray names and questionable dates and anecdotes together, hanging on to threads, insisting on being joined to dead people and therefore to life. From The View From Castle Rock, Epilogue-. The View From Castle Rock. From The View From Castle Rock, page 6-. In this first story, the...

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Unread Authors: Book #5!

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Saturday, January 31, 2009. Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand. Rating: 3*/5 = good. I enjoyed this fantasy featuring the djinii Bartimaeus. I liked his footnote asides and his trying to fulfill his missions without getting caught. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, The Golem's Eye. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Alicia / Book Haven. Kristen / The Critical Lass. Sarah / Loose Baggy Monster. Pour of Tor / Sycorax Pine. A great and terrible beauty. Crooked Kind of Perfect.

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Unread Authors: Regeneration, Pat Barker - Wendy's Review

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Friday, December 26, 2008. Regeneration, Pat Barker - Wendy's Review. I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. From A Soldier’s Declaration by S. Sassoon, July 1917 -. Is the first book in Pat Barker’s World War I trilogy. Siegfried Sasson. Was an historical figure, a noted poet. And decorated war hero who penned the Soldier’s Declaration. From Regeneration, page 180 -. Is a war novel wh...

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Resolutions and Challenges ’08 | A Striped Armchair

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Bookish thoughts from a woman of endless curiousity. Resolutions and Challenges ’08. January 1, 2008. Happy New Year everyone! This is also my blog’s one year anniversary. :D It’s been a great year, and I’ve gotten to ‘meet’ a lot of really cool people who read a lot of really cool books! I’d like to have a bit of a book giveaway in honour of my one-year mark, so I’m offering. By Anne Fadiman and. Is a book about books, so it seem appropriate here. And. Now that a new year is here, I can share my plans!

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Hey Jude, Don't Be So Obscure!: William Shakespeare: Cymbeline

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Hey Jude, Don't Be So Obscure! Thursday, May 26, 2011. It took Charlotte's post over at Inklings. About independent bookstores and her thoughts on eReader sales to remind me that I haven't reviewed Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Yet, though I finished it over a month ago. We're getting ready to descend? I found it a little jarring.) Also, when my hard copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. With the eVersion of the Complete Works. What idiots would expect you to? Isn't one of Shakespeare's better kn...