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Apr 8, 20191 min read
Friend of my Youth by Alice Munro
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 1990 Short stories. A revelation for me. Beautiful writing. True. Rhythmic. Pay attention, if you...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
An Accidental Man by Iris Murdoch
Chatto & Windus, 1971 Comparing Murdoch with Lessing... Scenes which made me think of Doris Lessing: -Mrs. Carberry vs retarded son in...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
1881 Twain criticizes old England and humans in general through the eyes of a child. Very enjoyable. Recommended to me by my son's friend...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
1930 Hard to get into, didn’t really like, shallow feeling. Same for On the Road by Kerouac, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (hard to follow,...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
1946 Did not enjoy Delta Wedding. Story of family wedding told from perspective of a 9-year-old girl. Interesting concept but felt like...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Doubleday, 2016 The Underground Railroad becomes a real train ride to freedom from Georgia through the Carolinas, Tennessee and Indiana,...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
The Wave by Todd Strasser
Dell, 1981 Reacting to the incredulity of his high school students that the holocaust could have happened under the apathetic eyes of a...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape, 2007 An account, astounding in its frankness, of the expectations and apprehensions of two inexperienced newly weds as...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anchor Books, 2007 Time has passed since I read this book so my review may be a bit sparse. Fascinating elucidation of the history of the...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
America’s First Daughter by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
William Morrow Paperbacks, March 2016 Thomas Jefferson’s daughter gives the reader her perspective in this historical fiction...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 8, 20191 min read
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Victor Gollancz, 1951 Very well written and entertaining book. The ambiance is rather spooky, sometimes perverse. Marriage is portrayed...
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