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Brilliant: A Novel

January 16, 2015

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I came across this winter-time review from before I even had this blog (yes, I wrote reviews just for myself) and it brought back such happy memories of this book I decided to go public with it. Happy ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: mystery, St. Martin's Press

December Mini-Reviews

December 31, 2014

I know books won't be on most of your minds tonight but thought I'd get December mini-reviews in before I hit the champagne. Plus, both of these books are light enough that if you start them this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, historical fiction, mini-reviews

The Paris Winter

December 12, 2014

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  In The Paris Winter, Maud Heighton is a young British woman in 1910, escaping the conventions that bind by moving to Paris to train as an artist at the renowned Academie LaFond. Unfortunately, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction, mystery, St. Martin's Press

How To Be a Good Wife

November 24, 2014

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When Marta and Hector married, his mother gave her a book of domestic lessons entitled How to be a Good Wife. By the time they’ve been married for over thirty years Marta knows it by heart and knows ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, mystery, Picador, suspense

Bitter Greens

September 26, 2014

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  Charlotte-Rose de la Force is a most unfortunate woman for her times. Unmarried and subject to whims of Louis XIV she has provoked his ire once too often with her acerbic writings about the Church ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: fairy tales, historical fiction, Thomas Dunne Books

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