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77The Thorn Birds: A Book Review And Short Summary
Of all of Colleen McCullough's novels, The Thorn Birds made the greatest impact on my ideas of what a great book should be. I was drawn into the story and could not put it down until I finished it a week later. McCullough takes a turbulent cast of...
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90The Kite Runner: A Book Review And An Overview Of Afghanistan
So have you read the book the Kite Runner that everyone is talking about?The Kite Runner is the sad, but uplifting first novel written by Khaled Hosseni. Today we only hear about the horrors of war in Afghanistan, but there was a time back before...
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71My Favorite Children's Books
As a child I enjoyed reading books such as Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, Julie of the Wolves, Old Yeller, Where The Red Fern Grows, and These...
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74Book Review: Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgement: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Back in 1998 I took a history course about Colonial America, which heavily focused on the religious beliefs of the settlers in the original thirteen colonies. Whereas the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was devoted to religious tolerance at the...
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67Writing My First Novel
I am what you call the veteran single woman who is writing a romance novel that will deviate from the trends. You know the alpha male millionaire and dazzling beauty he rescues and molds to his perfect soul mate? Sorry, but the book I am writing is...
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79Every Breath You Take: A Book Review
Every Breath You Take is a romantic murder mystery written by Judith McNaught, who does a good job of keeping you guessing throughout her book. At the beginning of the book Kate Donovan is vacationing on the...
11 comments59Book Review: Working Women, Working Men: Sao Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Working Class, 1900-1955
Back in 1999 I took a Brazilian History course, which first started out as quite torturous to me at the time. I have always been an introvert that shies from high group interaction, and even though I did...
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71A Book Review: Child of the Dark
This book review is based on a research paper I wrote for a Brazilian history class I took back in 1999. I believe this book review will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about Brazilian history in general, and who might be interested...
4 comments68Book Review: A Thousand and One Stories of Pericón de Cádiz
The book A Thousand and One Stories of Pericón de Cádiz is a book about the flamenco singer Juan Matinez Vilchez, aka Pericon, and is a series of tape recorded stories that were compiled by Jose Luis Ortiz Nuevo in Spanish. This volume has been...
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59The Funniest Fantasy I Ever Had
It was not an every day thought, but I used to have this funny fantasy about how a man with an Australian or British accent would become infatuated with me. My crush would often formulate with some British or Australian guy I chatted with a few...
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