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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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Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
We wish to share the opening lines of Vanessa Compagnone's article titled "The Puzzling World of Harry Potter". This interesting article explores the puzzles embedded in the Harry Potter novels. Compagnone's article starts by s...
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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...
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Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
One thing should be clear to you now. Money-making is aggression. That's the whole thing. The functionalistic explanation is the only one. People come to the market to kill. They say, 'I'm going to make a killing.' It's not acc...
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Poems, Epistles & Satires – Alexander Pope
Poems, Epistles & Satires – Alexander Pope – 1710~ Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 13 September 2001 A catholic in a country whose laws discriminated against Catholics, (England had just exiled a ...
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Lives – Plutarch
Lives – Plutarch – 80 A.D~ Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 25 October 2001 After the Turks had conquered Constantinople refuges brought manuscripts of Plutarch to Italy. It was the right time. Secular s...
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Loin de Rueil – Raymond Queneau
Loin de Rueil – Raymond Queneau – 1944 Reviewed by: Christopher Moore Date: 5 November 2004 Who is Jacques l’Aumône? This short novel begins and ends in the atelier of the unknown poet Louis-Phi...
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To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf – 1927 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 17 September 2001 I have very little to add to Lale’s review. Someone suggested to me we should give certain books of modern lit...