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Emma Makes rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
read in May, 2013
I feel like I'm in a special club now that I've read The Great Gastsby. Like a good few other five-start books I've read, within about ten pages of beginning I wondered how I'd never read this before.

Such an enjoyable, easy but delightful read. I lo...more
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emma Makes rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo by F.G. Haghenbeck
Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) has a devoted following and in recent years I’ve read a number of novels based on her life – The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo: A Novel by Mexican writer F. G. Haghenbeck is by far the most enjoyable.

The problem with dead peopl...more
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The Fall of Light by Sarah Laing
The Fall of Light
by Sarah Laing (Goodreads Author)
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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
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Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
Emma Makes rated a book 3 of 5 stars
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
read in March, 2013
Time is a funny beast; you’ll notice this most in life’s big events where it’s amazing that the earth keeps running to schedule while you’re entirely ensconced in whatever heartache has befallen your world.

If only we could be the master of time as we...more
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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
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Starting on the shortest day of 2012, we're reading Middlemarch by George Eliot.

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2013 Reading Challenge
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Emma Makes has read 12 books toward her goal of 25 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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