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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'Out of the Blackout']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26964277
to: Out of the Blackout (Paperback)byRobert Barnard
I read a lot of crime fiction, and I think one of the best writers of crime fiction is Robert Barnard. There isn't ever a formula. This one is a very very different crime novel which you can read again and again. It begins with a boy evacuated from London to the countryside who finds himself a new family. So where is the crime? Now that would be telling.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'The Book Thief']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26962790
to: The Book Thief (Paperback)byMarkus Zusak
Sad, moving, and altogether satisfying. The narrative style is interestingly weird. Not an easy read, but rewarding. Some people here say it is classified as 'Young Adult' -- I wasn't aware of this. Seems a very grown up book indeed to me, but a bright 14 year old could read any adult book.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'The Birth House']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26962518
to: The Birth House (Paperback)byAmi McKay
I read this on a long distance flight. I liked a lot about it. Well-written, interesting characters, great setting. I thought, though, that making modern medicine so harmful was a bit of a travesty. A more subtle opposition of the modern and the old would have been more interesting, I think.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'Selected Letters']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26961959
to: Selected Letters (Oxford World's Classics)byJane Austen
The letters are edited by Vivien Jones. Austen is funny, gossipy, and sly. Well worth reading.
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<![CDATA[Anthea Gupta wrote a story]]>
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/20634.Short_stories_in_documentary_style?chapter=1
Anthea Gupta wrote Short stories in documentary style: Short Stories.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'The Other Boleyn Girl']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26936982
to: The Other Boleyn Girl (Paperback)byPhilippa Gregory
I started it, but didn't read it. I don't like the way it's written and this is a story that has been told so many times....
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'Middlemarch']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26936906
to: Middlemarch (Signet Classics)byGeorge Eliot
I read this in 1975. At that point I had read no George Eliot at all!!!!!!!! It bowled me over. I went on to read all the rest.....
Even though it did bowl me over, it probably really is a bit longer than it need be.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'Heidi']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26936950
to: Heidi (Kingfisher Classics)byJohanna Spyri
This was always one of my favorites as a child and I still enjoy it (and the sequels, though they are not by Johanna Spyri). It engages with what constitutes good treatment of children.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'Silas Marner']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26936921
to: Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)byGeorge Eliot
Wonderful book! I read and re-read this one. A fairy story in which lost gold becomes love and transforms lives.
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<![CDATA[Anthea added 'A Fine Balance']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26936800
to: A Fine Balance (Paperback)byRohinton Mistry
I read this when it first came out. A sad book. Very moving and rich in character and incident. But rather despairing.
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