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Lisa Bertagnoli
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Scarlett Rules: When Life Gives You Green Velvet Curtains, Make a Green Velvet Dress
  4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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2006
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"I didn't like Groff's first book (The Monsters of Templeton) at all but I love this one. The writing is pretty and evocative without getting in the way of the story, which is a big plus for me. I don't know how she researched the topic but the inform...more
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"Got 10 pages into it. Put it down. Took it back to the library. Not my type of book.
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| I'm sure this is a good book. It just wasn't for me. The story was overly Gothic and I found the writing overly formal, perhaps a bit viscous, and definitely stilted in a way that, to my ear, interfered with the story. The story itself was, as mentio...more | |
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| It's not a spoiler to tell the premise of this book: An American Muslim enters a design contest for a World Trade Center/9-11 memorial, and wins. Of all the premises of 9-11 literature (mostly about people losing loved ones), this stands out as unusu...more | |
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| As odd as this might sound, I am not a big suspender of disbelief when it comes to fiction. The closer a novel is to real life, the more I like it. The glaring, glorious exception is this book. No need to suspend disbelief; the writer spins this othe...more | |
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