The below post is written for the “Favorite Female Character Contest” at Womens Web. I’ve written about the “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” before. Reading it is like eating comfort food. This series features Precious Ramotswe, a female detective in Botswana. While I have come across many interesting characters in fiction, when it comes […]
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Book Review : Remarkable Creatures
By amodini
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Title : Remarkable CreaturesAuthor : Tracy ChevalierGenre : Historical fictionPages : 320Rating : 4/5 A spinster in search of fossils. Sound interesting ? Well, it should, because like it’s title “Remarkable creatures” this book is pretty remarkable too. I haven’t read this author’s previous novel “Girl with a pearl earring”, but when I came across […]
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By amodini
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There were a lot of lovely books in 2009, and here are three of my favorites : – The help by Kathryn Stockett Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young girl who has just finished her degree and returned to her small, conservative town of Jackson, Mississippi. Unlike other girls her age, she does not subscribe […]
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