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Jean’s 2022 Year in Books
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| An intriguing read, this. It's short, swift, and strange, taking us into an alternate present--a dystopia?--of an isolated, rundown home surrounded by corporate drone-run farmland. Our teenage protagonist is doing all she can to care for her little b ...more | |
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| Rather than a traditional narrative and/or paragraph structure, Janice Hallett’s The Appeal is created with emails, text messages, and other media snippets compiled for two lawyers to study in preparation for tackling a murder case. On the one hand, ...more | |
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Hullo! It's been a while. I've never read Laurie Lico Albanese before, and I must say her skill with prose and cadence makes a story like HESTER a joy to hear. I did not care for THE SCARLET LETTER when I was in school, but I do like journeys into hi ...more |
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| It's been a long, long time since I read a Cadfael mystery, and after researching the world of the writer, I longed for a fictional meandering through Shrewsbury. An Excellent Mystery is a good book for this meandering because the mystery itself is s ...more | |
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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