Delish PicksOK this title could be misleading because most of the books I read in 2009 have been published for years but none the less they affected me in 2009 one way or another. Click on the links to read my reviews of the books. – The Blind Assassin Such a complex book! – His Dark Materials Surprisingly [...]
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I have never in my life read a book so full of despair, every time you think there is hope and your spirits lift you turn the page and you get crushed by the reality of life. And yet I could not stop reading “A Fine Balance “ or stop turning the pages so fast. [...]
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I seldom take books out from the library, I take out a lot of Audio books but not actual paper books. It always seems that the popular books are always not available or on a VERY long waiting list where you have to wait ages to get them. So when I saw The Almost Moon [...]
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“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris recalls her far from exemplary life, and the events leading up to her sister’s death, gradually revealing the carefully [...]
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I watched the movie “The golden compass” when it first came out, although I haven’t had read the book at the time, and was very disappointed in it. I thought it could have been much more. So I was hesitant to read the books. A year ago as I was browsing in one of those [...]
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves – our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies. Now that I’ve been one myself, I know. Margarete Atwood The Blind Assassin I [...]
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I recently finished reading the infamous Twilight book Series . There are four books in the series : Twilight , New Moon , Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. The first book was good, it captured my attentuion and I wanted to contiune reading it. Not deep reading by no means but a good distraction. The main [...]
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I always admired Rana Husseini’s work but after I read her book “Murder in the Name of Honor” I now admire her even more for her courage, drive and continuous fight for the victims of the – so called – honour crimes. She challenges the status quo even if it threatens her life. Where the [...]
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I am back to reading, gearing up to go back to work. Oiling those rusty gears in my brain. About a week ago I finished reading the book “Wish You Well” by David Baldacci. Beldacci is well known for his suspense books and this book was quite a departure from his usual style. The story [...]
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Todays books are all chapter books geared more towards 5 – 10 year olds or when your child can remember what was read to them the day before and can be excited about what is going to happen next. 1) The first series is the Magic Tree House series: Travel through time with brother and sister [...]
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Just finished reading To kill a Mocking Bird ( This link is phenomenal) by Harper Lee . This book is great! It’s a story that preludes the civil rights movement as told by a 7 year old girl ( Scout) in the span of 2 years of her life. What I find so fascinating about the book [...]
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I just finished reading Any Place I Hang My Hat By Susan Isaacs. It’s a story about a woman called Amy Lincoln who works as a journalist. She was abandoned by both parents at a very young age, her mother went to the store and never came back and her father was in and out of jail for [...]
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I LOVE children’s books. Even before I had my little 7aki I was drawn to these books and I loved reading them. Here are some of my favorite children’s books in no particular order. They are for different ages, from toddler to Teenager. 1) Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. Such [...]
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas book is most probably the most sad book I’ve ever read. It is such an amazing book by the Irish Author John Boyne. It talks about a nine year old German boy called Bruno who had to move from Berlin to a place called “Out – With” (Known to [...]
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I just finished reading Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella. Lexi has a car accident which erases 3 years from her memory. She wakes up in the hospital room to find out that she is married, has a successful career and looks hot. A fun and easy read. Currently reading: The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas [...]
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