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Marie-Anne Mancio
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About this author
Nancy (Leanne Rowe) and Bill (Jamie Foreman) in “Oliver Twist” (2005)
Our culture has a bizarre relationship with prostitution. Prostitutes modeled for painters (e.g. Fillide Melandroni for Caravaggio) when ‘respectable’ women couldn’t; they were the subject of avant-garde works (Manet’s Olympia, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon) and operas (Verdi’s La Traviata). In literature, Maupassant’s...
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Whorticulture
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"Hi everyone and thanks so much to Jay for getting us all in order! Lauren what a great, thorough review - you've set the bar!"
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Overall, I found this to be a richly evocative and thoroughly satisfying read. The author brings the melting pot of mid-20th century Philippines to vivid, breathing life-- farms, jungles, mountains, towns, and cities. Antiporda is equally at home...
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"Hi there I did message HR about sending me her book to review and never received it. I then had a family bereavement so didn't chase it up but HR plea...more
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"Thank you all - sorry I have been absent a while due to bereavement.If anyone is missing a review please pm me and I will chase up the reviewers."
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Marie-Anne Mancio
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| I wasn’t sure about the title of Suzanne Synborski’s murder mystery novel ‘Behind Lace Curtains’ – I thought it made the book sound like a bad romance ; but the beginning was fantastic and it had me hooked immediately. The pace was fast, the situatio...more | |
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Marie-Anne Mancio
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I don't think I'm the target reader for this book; for one, it's not my genre so I don’t know how original it is and secondly I don't have children so I can't tell whether they'd like it. Nevertheless, it was really enjoyable and well constructed. The...more |
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Kathleen Garlock's review of What Happened to Tasha Blue?:
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Tasha Blue is gone. She got on her bike and rode out of town, just as she'd done every other day. But this day was different. Tasha Blue never returned. She disappeared without a trace. Even her bike went missing. Of course when a beautiful sevent...
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L.A. Parker's review of Nine Princesses: Tales of Love and Romance:
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Nine Princesses: Tales of Love and Romance is an unexpected pleasure. In a world where we are bludgeoned with hormonal excess, brief infatuation and instant lust disguised as romance it is refreshing to delve into the world of courtly love. The au...
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Sheela Word's review of Flute of the Wind Queen (Outlander Leander: vol.1):
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Fun, well-plotted adventure story that moves fast and has some interesting twists and turns. Reading it felt a little like playing a video game: I was a human-like creature with funny ears, plunged into an alternate reality, overcoming obstacles a...
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