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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-13 10:54:48 for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage).
(Language: English)
 
What a RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-27 01:14:43 for Persuasion.
(Language: English)
Anne Elliot is one of Austen's more compelling heroines. She is the least like the rest of her family. Part of the nobility, she is not an elitist, and has lost the bloom of youth. The family is in reduced circumstances and are compelled to rent their estate. Unbeknownst to her, the new tenants' guest is none other than her first suitor whom she was persuaded to reject several years ago. Thrown together, each will observe the other with older and wiser eyes.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-27 12:58:24 for THE INVISIBLE PLAYER.
(Language: English)
Lively tale of paranoia at the academic level. A professor is insulted when an anonymous critique of his article is published. He covertly tries to figure out if it is one of his departmental colleagues and whether it is because of professional jealousy or because of the adulterous affair he is having. The characterization is the most interesting element of the story.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-27 12:54:12 for The Burning of the Rose.
(Language: English)
Complex and layered novel of a love story during the 100 years war between England and France. A couple with an adopted daughter are artisans in Venice. The wife has property in France where they decide to move back to. In France, the daughter meets 2 brothers, one of whom she is immediately attracted to. A strange narrative which includes nebulous acts of treason and issues of identity.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-14 08:58:46 for Still Alice.
(Language: English)
Must read--especially if you have any connection to someone with Alzheimer's. Tearjerker but also full of very interesting true information. If there is someone in your life with Alzheimer's, my heart goes out to you. My father had it and although he was able to cope it was heartbreakingly sad to see him lose his memory bit by bit. Fortunately he always was able to recognize his family and most of the time remembered where he lived. And he died before it progressed to Stage III, which was a blessing any way you reckon it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-25 03:09:40 for She's Come Undone.
(Language: English)
Wally Lamb is incredibly impressive in this gut wrenchingly sad portrait of Dolores Price. With gritty realism and some genius bits of humor, her story is almost emblematic of a generation of North American women who grew up Catholic in the 60s. Betrayed by her family, religion and oppressed by rapidly changing society so bent on punishing anyone who did not fit the media's image of adolescent womanhood, Dolores shuts down emotionally. Just as she hits rock bottom, she is rescued and brought to a mental institution, where she truly begins her journey of self awareness and eventually, self love. Incredibly intense, with a wealth of secondary characters who are just as flawed and loveable as the heroine. It will not fail to resonate with anybody with even a tiny shred of empathy for anyone who has felt the pain of social isolation.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-09 10:07:12 for The Mists of Avalon (Ballantine Reader's Circle).
(Language: English)
A superb retelling of the Arthurian legend, the Mists of Avalon is one of those rare books that captured me, body, mind and spirit. The author tells the story from the point of view of the women, namely Morgaine (Morgan Le Fay). Bradley brlliantly illustrates the religious, political and gender issues of this cataclysmic time in Britain. Her prose weaves the historical and the fantastical seamlessly and compellingly. It has been pronounced a modern classic by scholars and a damn great read by the rest of us.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-09 09:28:28 for Women of the Shadows 2 Ed: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy.
(Language: English)
Very interesting book written by an American woman who was there as an "observer". There is a very interesting evolution as she begins by seeing them as "other" and ends by considerably "softening" the boundaries between her world and theirs.
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