Thursday, May 30, 2013

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

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With Seattle as the backdrop, specifically Chinatown and Nihonmachi (Japantown) and the finding of the belongings of a number of Japanese fa...
Monday, May 27, 2013

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

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As in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini makes the sights, sounds and smells of Afghanistan as well as the emotions of ...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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I have seldom before read anything so painful yet so beautiful as the writing of Khaled Hosseini. His writing makes you feel every blow deal...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder

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My friend Liz gave me a few books from her own library tied in a lovely ribbon as a graduation gift last week. One of them was this little g...

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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I truly love when fictional characters are placed in real events and their story is told with the real event as a backdrop. When done right ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) by Tana French

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The 4th book in the Dublin Murder Squad books is a tightly wound journey into the mind of a detective and the mind of the murderer. The ca...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Prelude to Catastrophe: FDR's Jews and the Menace of Nazism by Robert Shogan

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I started reading this for my capstone paper. I finished the book because it was fascinating. Shogan did a great job with material that coul...