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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin

The Three Loves of Persimmon by Cassandra Golds

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The House On Moon Lake by Francesca Duranti

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May 11, 2013 03:23am · like
Stephanie rated a book 4 of 5 stars In the Beginning by Chaim Potok read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This reflective post originally appeared on www.readinasinglesitting.com. Of late it seems that I am being haunted by intertextuality. Each book that I pick up seems to slot into the vast Connect Four board of hermeneutics that is my reading life, and...more
May 07, 2013 04:57pm · see review
Stephanie rated a book 5 of 5 stars Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This reflective piece originally appeared at www.readinasinglesitting.com. Over the course of my last few reviews I've been considering the role of the author as narrator and as character, and the degree to which authorial insertion is, to the mind of...more
Apr 23, 2013 07:36pm · see review
Stephanie rated a book 2 of 5 stars 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Apr 21, 2013 07:57pm
Stephanie rated a book 5 of 5 stars I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review originally appeared at www.readinasinglesitting.com. When reading PG Wodehouse's Love Among the ChickensrecentlyI was struck by the narrator's curiosity regarding "to what extent the work of authors is influenced by their private affairs."...more
Apr 17, 2013 11:13pm · see review
Stephanie rated a book 4 of 5 stars Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review originally appeared at www.readinasinglesitting.com. Love Among the Chickens is my first foray into the work of Wodehouse; and as a fairly early work, it's one of Wodehouse's first forays into Wodehouse as well. A deliciously written farci...more
Apr 16, 2013 12:33am · see review
Stephanie rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
(This discussion originally appeared at www.readinasinglesitting.com. Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all… The story that I am asked to tell most often is how I met my husband, a story that is notable for the...more
Apr 11, 2013 04:26pm · see review
Stephanie added a status update: Bookish links 5 Apr: rewriting from scratch, authors' rights, writing the dark side & more! http://ht.ly/jLflI
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Stephanie rated a book 4 of 5 stars A Change For The Better by Susan Hill read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This review originally appeared at www.readinasinglesitting.com. I picked up Susan Hill’s A Change for the Better from the shelves of the Little Library, a literary free-for-all thanks to which I’ve stumbled across all manner of elderly, fusty little...more
Apr 02, 2013 05:48pm · see review