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Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Where’d You Go, Bernadette has a delightfully convoluted plot that will keep the reader second guessing the unpredictable characters and set off on a detective search for the illusive Bernadette. Set initially in ...
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Review: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
In Nick Harkaway’s novel Angelmaker, lovable antihero Joe Spork is the grandson of a clockmaker and son of a mobster criminal – and in this unlikely caper he ends up taking after them both. His quiet life as a restorer of...
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Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Wonder by R.J. Palacio is a novel about a character who describes himself as a normal kid. The child, August Pullman, does not have any disabilities, has a remarkably loving family, and does very well in school. The thing peopl...
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Contagious by Jonah Berger | Book Review
Contagious by Jonah Berger explains why ideas, memes, videos, and products catch on and go viral.
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What to read? (Part 4) The Literary Canon
What makes the classics so ‘classic,’ and why should modern readers still seek to experience them? Nothing to be frightened of As Arnold Bennett reflected, it is easy to feel daunted when approaching the literary canon – “The a...
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The Voices in My Headphones: Listening to Audiobooks on the Go
Listening to audiobooks allows me to read more books more easily than ever before. I’m an audiobook junkie. I can’t hide it. It’s a sickness. An obsession. And I love it. However, the general public does not a...
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John Green: A Primer
John Green. Just the name sends fans of young adult literature into reading frenzies. He made geek chic and has authored some of the best YA novels of the past ten years. Not familiar with his work? This primer will introduce y...
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What’s So British about Female British Writers?
A Tradition of “Great Literature” from Female British Writers Great Britain has maintained its reputation as a literary continent for the past few centuries. Shakespeare, Donne, Dickens and the Brontës are but some ...
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What to read? (Part 3) A Matter of Taste
What is literary taste, and how does one develop it? If the question of like / don’t like is insufficient, what other considerations come into play? My guru in this matter is little-read English novelist Arnold Bennett, whose L...
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Review: Red Doc> by Anne Carson, A Medley of Monsters and Men
Anne Carson’s Red Doc> (released March 5th from Knoph) is a follow-up to her acclaimed 1998 novel in verse, Autobiography of Red. It is part poem, part play/tragedy/opera, part novel, and it is what we have come to exp...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
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Hey Lolita, Hey: Bands Named After Literary Characters
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Review: Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott
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Best Titles for Book Reading Clubs
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Review: S3 by Fourat Janabi
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Summer Lovin’: 5 love(ish) stories for summer reading
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Summer Reading Special: A Bibliophile’s Miscellany of France
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I was a Pre-teen Book Nerd in the 90s
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Review: Handfuls of Bone by Monica Kidd
