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Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford, an enlightened, beautiful, and young woman gets married. She thinks she is marrying Dr. Kennicott, she doesn't know that she is also marrying his town, Gopher Prairie. She tries to love the town and tries hard. ...
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The Young Hemingway – Michael Reynolds
There are over 70 Hemingway biographies out there. You want to read one, a good one. How do you choose? You flip through the pages of a few at your local bookstore, and then, relying on your intuition and luck, you pick one. Ho...
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The World of Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse
His greatest achievement was writing the same book 97 times and making them eminently readable despite this.
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Carter Beats the Devil – Glen David Gold
I have never read a work of fiction packed with so much interesting information on magic tricks and illusions, inventions and historical facts combined with colourful characters, both real and fictional, (ok the Secret Service ...
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Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
All descriptions are dream-like on purpose. We do not know if those places really exist in our physical reality, although they exist as "alternate realities" in a multi-dimensional matrix. Like our existence, reality is fluid. ...
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A Student of Weather – Elizabeth Hay
It's an interesting experience to encounter a book in which none of the major figures is likeable. Yet, that very circumstance is a tribute to Elizabeth Hay's eloquent portrayal of two sisters in drought-ridden central Canada. ...
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Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak Reviewed by: Rick / Date: 13 September 2016 Visit us on Youtube: ReadLit Youtube Channel
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Tender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
This disturbing tale of the turbulent relationship of wealthy expatriate couple Dick and Nicole Diver and their blithe existence on the French Riviera illustrates, among many things, images of Americans abroad, corruption by mo...
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
What I got out of "The Curious Incident ..." was less about insights into Christopher than insights into the rest of us "normal" people. One of the things that Haddon's remarkable depiction of Christopher's worldview makes stri...
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Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
The real hope is for Jimmy to not slay his fellows, but it's a slim hope. Only by repudiating Crake's plan will Jimmy become a whole, independent human being, the very thing that his society tried so hard to squelch (both in hi...
