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The Hundred-Foot Journey

January 10, 2014

hundred foot journey

I am almost speechless at how much I enjoyed this book. The Hundred-Foot Journey is a beautiful, thoughtfully written story about one man’s trek from unwelcome immigrant to renowned chef in Paris. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cooking, cultural, food, restaurants, Scribner

Doctor Sleep: A Novel

November 13, 2013

doctor sleep

  If you are one of the five people on the planet who has never read Stephen King let me bring you up to speed. He is the prolific writer of some of the all-time scariest books in history. The only ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, horror, Scribner, suspense

The Silver Star

June 14, 2013

  The Silver Star is author Jeannette Walls’ latest foray into fiction. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, is an intimate look at her childhood, when benign neglect, became not-so benign, as neither of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1970s, book clubs, coming-of-age, family, Scribner

Equal of the Sun

March 25, 2013

Equal of the Sun

There is not much historical fiction out there about sixteenth-century Iran (Persia at the time) and what there is, is about the shahs of the day. The world of women and the harem is generally written ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, historical fiction, Iran, Scribner

The Bathing Women

November 21, 2012

The Bathing Women

In a family with dignity, there was no room for “other things”, no matter how profoundly someone in this family was shamed, or how deeply the person suffered.   The Bathing Women takes place from the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 20th century, China, cultural, Scribner

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