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\n The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Mark Obmascik<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n I doubt anyone would ever guess that I\'d read this book. I found it on the clearance table at Barnes & Noble, and since I had a gift card burning a hole in my pocket, I thought - why not?\n \nI am 100 pages into the book. It is part memoir...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n The Olive Season<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Carol Drinkwater<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n I\'m trying to figure out what made this memoir work. Most memoirs I read have some sort of gimmick -- they\'ve travelled to a remote spot of the earth, or lived among different people, or have gone through a remarkable event, etc.. \nBut w...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by J. Maarten Troost<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n I loved it!\n When I started reading the book, I was so jealous of Maarten and Sylvia, taking off on an adventure like that. I thought - why don\'t my husband and I try something like this? And what great fodder for a writer! But as Maarte...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Sara Wheeler<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Parts of this book were a little dry, and yet -- I wanted to go buy a plane ticket and head down to Chile. The author did such a good job of expressing how undiscovered parts of Chile are, especially the desert area in the north. \n\nWhat ...\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n $\"Girl$ <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Girl in Translation<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Jean Kwok<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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