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The Sun Also Rises [Three Things Thursday]

May 5, 2011Michelle3 Comments

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Rating: 4.5/5 Date Read: August 2007 1. Hemingway’s first novel follows a gang of expatriates living in post-WWI Paris as they set off for a weekend in Spain for some drinking, flirting, and…

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Three Things Thursdayhemingway, lost generation, the sun also rises

People of the Book [Three Things Thursday]

April 28, 2011Michelle5 Comments

People of the Book Rating: 4/5 Date Read: July 2008 1. Brooks takes the tale of the Sarajevo Haggadah and creates stories surrounding it and its journey from 14th century Spain to the present day. As our main character discovers…

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Three Things Thursdaygeraldine brooks, people of the book

Marley and Me [Three Things Thursday]

April 21, 2011Michelle2 Comments

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog* Rating: 4/5 Date Read: December 2008 1. When John and Jenny decide to get a dog (to test their parenting ability), they have no idea what they were in…

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Book Review, Three Things Thursdayjohn gorgan, marley and me

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan [Three Things Thursday]

April 14, 2011Michelle8 Comments

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeRating: 5/5 Date Read: April 2008 1. Lily and Snow Flower are bound together as lifelong friends (“laotong“) in 19th-century China. They communicate through the secret language of nu shu, a language…

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Book Review, Three Things ThursdayLisa See, snow flower and the secret fan

Dead Souls [Three Things Thursday]

March 17, 2011Michelle2 Comments

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Translation: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Rating: 4/5 Date Read: August 2007 1. In Dead Souls, Chichikov, in an attempt to inflate his social standing, comes up with a scheme of purchasing from other landowner’s…

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Book Review, Three Things Thursdaydead souls, gogol, russian lit

Atonement [Three Things Thursday]

February 24, 2011Michelle5 Comments

Atonement by Ian McEwan Rating: 4.5/5 Date Read: December 2007 1. Atonement is the story of how one little girl’s imagination tore apart an English family in 1935. Following the stories of two sisters and the boy they grew up…

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Three Things Thursdayatonement, ian mcewan

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Three Things Thursday]

February 17, 2011Michelle8 Comments

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Rating: 5/5 Date Read: January 2009 1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was one of my favorite reads in 2009. And I think it can safely be somewhere on the all-time list.…

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Book Review, Three Things Thursdaya tree grows in brooklyn, betty smith

A Spot of Bother [Three Things Thursday]

February 10, 2011Michelle3 Comments

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon Rating: 2/5 Date Read: May 2009 1. This is the story of George, who mistakes eczema for cancer and quickly becomes obsessed with it. His wife is having an affair, his daughter is…

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Book Review, Three Things Thursdaya spot of bother, mark haddon

A Long Way Down [Three Things Thursday]

February 3, 2011Michelle3 Comments

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby Rating: 4/5 Date Read: June 2008 1. The four narrators in A Long Way Down meet on a rooftop on New Year’s Eve where each has independently planned to commit suicide. They (obviously)…

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Book Review, Three Things Thursdaya long way down, nick hornby

A Girl Named Zippy [Three Things Thursday]

January 27, 2011Michelle11 Comments

Today I am introducing a new feature designed to highlight those books I read before I was blogging regularly. There are a lot of books I read (even as recently as 2009) that I just never featured on my books.…

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Book Review, Three Things Thursdaya girl named zippy, haven kimmel
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