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March 24, 2013 03:59 PM UTC --
THE ORCHARDIST is a lovely book, and many people rave about it. So you might not want to pay attention to my criticism. Maybe they're right and I'm wrong. But I have two problems with this book.
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March 12, 2013 03:24 PM UTC --
DARK PLACES was written by Gillian Flynn before she wrote her 2012 smash success GONE GIRL. Although the two books are different, DARK PLACES is every bit as good as GONE GIRL, and I encourage you to . . .
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March 05, 2013 01:33 PM UTC --
Where to begin? It's a good bet you care most about whether and how much I liked FAITHFUL PLACE . I did, very much. But I skip a summary of the story because it's best that you discover it as you read . . .
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February 20, 2013 12:49 PM UTC --
Right up front I'll say, DIE FOR YOU by Lisa Unger is great!
DIE FOR YOU was published in 2009, and at first it reminded me of the more recent GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn. GONE GIRL is on many . . .
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February 12, 2013 08:45 AM UTC --
Thanks to readingitforward.com, SHARP OBJECTS is the second book by Gillian Flynn that I've read. On the basis of having now read both this book and GONE GIRL, it appears to me that Flynn likes deeply . . .
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February 05, 2013 11:10 AM UTC --
In the book THE COVE, the cove is a place where nothing good has ever happened to anyone who lived there. At this point in history, the end of World War I, can that be changed?
THE COVE begins with . . .
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January 31, 2013 10:28 AM UTC --
Here is a book everyone should read. It deals with such an important subject, and too many of us are unaware of it. Probably, MOST of us are unaware of it.
Virginia Morell, . . .
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January 31, 2013 10:17 AM UTC --
THE DARK WINTER by David Mark is a mystery, the first book in a projected series with Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy as the main character. He's a big man on the outside with a little man on the inside. . . .
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January 31, 2013 10:04 AM UTC --
Stephan Talty has written plenty of nonfiction, but BLACK IRISH is his first stab at fiction. In this book, a Buffalo, New York police detective is trying to solve serial murders in what is left . . .
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January 06, 2013 04:35 PM UTC --
CASCADE by Maryanne O'Hara is a gorgeously written novel about a young artist in the 1930s who married a man because he had money at a time when she and her father didn't, when they needed a home. . . .
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December 16, 2012 01:51 PM UTC --
CITY OF WOMEN was a disappointment. That's putting it lightly. Yet I read so many good reviews of this book, saw it on so many "best of the month" lists, that I have to wonder, what kind of books . . .
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November 18, 2012 08:56 AM UTC --
ILLUMINATIONS by Mary Sharratt tells the story of Hildegard von Bingen, recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches and as a prophet by the Lutheran Church.
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November 11, 2012 06:56 AM UTC --
In MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE by Emily Arsenault , Gretchen, a bestselling author of a book about female country music singers, has died on the library steps after a book event there. Her mother . . .
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October 30, 2012 09:24 AM UTC --
In SERENA by Ron Rash, Serena is married to Pemberton, co-owner of a lumber company, in 1929 North Carolina. From the start, you will see that the two deserve each other; they are both ruthlessly ambitious. . . .
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October 15, 2012 10:35 AM UTC --
ALTAR OF EDEN by James Rollins is a science thriller. And it's a good one. That's because the science is based on reality even while the story is fiction.
Do you remember back when the war in . . .
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October 06, 2012 09:47 AM UTC --
PLAYING DEAD by Julia Heaberlin is a good mystery/thriller. Tommie searches for clues about the secrets her mother and father kept from her all her life. Along the way, she discovers mystery upon mystery, . . .
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September 20, 2012 11:06 AM UTC --
BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett sounds promising at first. Patchett writes beautifully, leading her reader to believe that her description of a large, formal birthday party held at the home of the vice president . . .
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September 16, 2012 11:44 AM UTC --
A THOUSAND CUTS by Simon Lelic is not what many of its reviews claimed in 2010 and 11.
Booklist says in its starred review, "Lelic wastes not a word in this searing indictment of . . .
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September 01, 2012 08:44 AM UTC --
The many reviews that praise the thriller TRIPTYCH by Karin Slaughter must be based, I think, on the second half of the book. (You may disagree. More on that later.) If so, then the praise is justified. . . .
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August 23, 2012 08:59 AM UTC --
Don't get me wrong. Right up to the second-from-last page GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn is a five-star book, i.e., it deserves the highest rating. Every page of the book builds more and . . .
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