Posts Tagged ‘book reviews’
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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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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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Age of Sail in Annapolis County – Peggy Armstrong & Marguerite Wagner
Age of Sail in Annapolis County – Peggy Armstrong & Marguerite Wagner Reviewed by: Ann Marie Monk / Date: 5 September 2016 Visit us on Youtube: ReadLit Youtube Channel
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Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory – Antonio Sagona, et.al.
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory – Antonio Sagona, Christopher Mackie, Ian McGibbon, Mithat Atabay, Richard Reid Reviewed by: Lucienne / Date: 19 May 2016 Visit us on Youtube: ReadLit Youtube Cha...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Jeff Kinney Reviewed by: Tuana / Date: 12 September 2016 Visit us on Youtube: ReadLit Youtube Channel
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Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Süskind – 1985 Reviewed by: Steph Date: September 7th, 2016 Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, our protagonist and his own villain, is born with a perfect sense of smell...
