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This reads like the history channel. A truly exhaustive look at the life and times of Cleopatra. Not an easy read but the fascinating details kept me interested.
Book Author: Stacy Schiff
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February 27, 2011 – 5:08 am
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A historical novel set in America during WWI. It follows a story of 17-year-old Frieda as she is swept up in the government’s fight against venereal disease. Should have been an interesting glimpse into history..but I just couldn’t engage with the main character.
Book Author: Michael Lowenthal
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February 27, 2011 – 5:02 am
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A great book that takes the biblical story known as ‘the rape of Dinah’ and re appropriates the story. Dinah tells this novel first hand, and it’s an amazing look and women and their lives in biblical times. A fascinating read.
Book Author: Anita Diamant
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February 27, 2011 – 4:57 am
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I think of ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ as the sister book to the Kite Runner. A women’s voice during the war in Afghanistan. All women should mark this a must read!
Book Author: Khaled Hosseini
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January 18, 2011 – 2:22 pm
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Set in rural Mississippi,this book begins with the shooting of Larry Ott, a loner suspected of raping and killing a girl when he was in high school. No body was ever found and now another girl is missing. Silas Jones, the constable looking into the shooting, carries secrets of his own about his boyhood friendship with Larry and the girl Larry is suspected of killing. Read this one!
Book Author: Tom Franklin
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January 12, 2011 – 5:32 pm
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Wow, what a ride this book is….havent come to the end yet, but I cant believe all the twists and surprises this book has. Great read!
Book Author: Sarah Waters
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October 25, 2010 – 5:13 pm
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I loved this book albeit the fact that I struggled a bit through Part One with characters and the plot. It is set in 1799 on Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the only port open to westerners and the farthest outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company. This is a tale of a young Dutch clerk who has 5 years to earn his fortune and return to marry his love. As you might guess, fate has other plans.
Book Author: David Mitchell
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September 16, 2010 – 1:30 pm
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Two stories intertwine. A modern day murder mystery involving a Polygamist sect in rural Utah and an historical fiction account of Brigham Young’s 19th wife Anne Eliza Young. The result is a contemporary AND historical look inside the world of Polygamy. Great book club selection. Lots to talk about here.
Book Author: David Ebershoff
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September 16, 2010 – 1:12 pm
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I heard a lot of buzz about this English best seller, so was a little leery of the premise (follow the relationship of two college grads on the same day each year for twenty years). After the first three chapters or should I say, 3 years, I was hooked. Writing is funny and smart. A book you will want your daughter to read. Anne Hathaway has been cast in the movie version directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education).
Book Author: David Nicholls
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September 16, 2010 – 12:59 pm
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This didn’t quite live up to”Fingersmith” or “Tipping The Velvet” but I thoroughly got caught up in the lives of Dr Faraday and his obsession with the Ayres family of Hundreds Hall. Set in postwar rural Warwickshire, England this is a Masterpiece Theater kind of story…ghosts and all.
Book Author: Sarah Waters
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(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
