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Rosana
Jan 12, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2014
I was to drive back to the farm this morning, after a few days in The City. But a snow storm blew in with more intensity than expected and I used it as an excuse to stay put for one more day and read.

Moon Tiger is my first book of 2014, also the first book in a reading challenge for the coming 12 months – to read books set in various countries around the world.

My thoughts about it are at the moment still very inordinate, but out of laziness I will list them in point form, avoiding the effort
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Sylvia Tedesco
Nov 05, 2013 rated it it was amazing
A beautiful creation. I will hang on to this book and pick it up to re-read beautiful sections that unfold like poetry. I love Lively's writing and have read "How it All Began" and "Oleander, Jacaranda" (autobiography of her childhood in Egypt). I have a few of my favorite books in a cubby-hole in our bed's headboard and this book will go there along with Nabokov's "Speak, Memory", the William Trevor short stories, Lampedusa's "The Leopard."
"Moon Tiger" roams through the life and mind of a woma
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Jessica
Mar 21, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Gains ground in the back half as Claudia fleshes out as a character, and Lively's brief-but-punchy descriptions of Egypt during World War II give you a tremendous sense of place. ...more
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