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Book Review : State of Wonder

[amazon_link id=”0062049801″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : State of Wonder Author : Ann Patchett Genre : Contemporary Publisher : HarperCollins Pages : 353 Rating : 4.5/5 Ann Patchett’s most recent novel has as it’s stoic heroine Marina Singh, an Indian-American woman. A doctor turned researcher Dr. Singh, the daughter of an American mother and an […]

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Book Review : How It All Began

[amazon_link id=”0670023442″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : How It All Began Author : Penelope Lively Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Viking Pages : 229 Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Dame Penelope Lively’s “How it all began” starts off with a violent mugging. A frail old schoolteacher Charlotte Rainsford is pushed to the […]

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Book Review: Children of Paranoia

[amazon_link id=”0525952373″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Children of Paranoia Author : Trevor Shane Publisher : Dutton Genre : Dystopian Thriller Release Date : September 8, 2011 Source : Publisher ARC Pages : 371 Rating : 4.5/5 There is a war on and Joseph is in the thick of it. It’s Us vs. Them with […]

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Book Review – Q: A Novel

[amazon_link id=”0062015834″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title – Q: A Novel Author : Evan Mandery Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Harper Collins Pages : 368 Rating : 4.5/5 Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC If you knew what your future had in store would you change the present to make it better ? Quite the question, isn’t […]

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