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"An estimated 600 women served during the American Civil War." -- The Girl Who Kicked a Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. ...

"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out ...

Every other Thursday, The Blue Bookcase hosts a " Literary Blog Hop " for blogs "that primarily feature reviews of literar...

The Food of France , Waverley Root's encyclopedic tome, deserves its status as a culinary classic. First published in 1958, updated ...

"A soldier took us to the Honolulu police station at the corner of Merchant Street and Bethel Avenue, along with most of the other ...

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Maps and Shadows is Krysia Jopek's gripping novel based on the true-life travails of the author's father and his family during W...

Bech: A Book is John Updike's novel-in-short-stories about a fictitious American novelist named Henry Bech. It is the first of a tri...

"When I was a young child growing up in Korea, it was said that the image of the fading moon at daybreak, reflected in a pond or stre...

"Everyone has a story." Maps and Shadows by Krysia Jopek.  This is a novel based on the WWII experiences of the author's...

"He looked like a horse with a secret sorrow. He coughed three times, like a horse who, in addition to a secret sorrow, had contracte...

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Wolf Hall is as rich in texture and detail as the sumptuous tapestries Henry VIII hung in his palaces. Hilary Mantel tells the historica...

A few years back, John Kralik found himself in a bad spot. His law firm was struggling, his health was poor, his marriage existed only on...

"It wasn't Archie's fault really." -- The Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. Wodehouse. Snow is falling here in Portl...

Venice is at the top of my armchair travel destinations. It is such a magical city. I love to be there. I love to think about it. And I ...

"He thought intelligence a function of the individual and that groups of persons were intelligent in inverse proportion to their size...

The story of Washington chopping down the cherry tree loomed large in my childhood, but I never think of it as an adult. It took me a minut...

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"If you travel to southeastern Alaska by water, your route will likely include Stephens Passage, a part of the Inside Passage between...

99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by Anthony Burgess. It was the arrival of 1984 (the year, not the book) that inspired Burge...

You, for instance, coming upon these words not exactly by accident or design. -- from "Coincidence," the first poem in Beca...

"Dear John, Well, if you must commit the artistic indecency of writing about a writer, better I suppose about me that about you....

I've been blurbed! My review of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt by Rulka Langer is quoted on the back of the reprinted edition. ...

Wendy at caribousmom is hosting this fun challenge again this year.  The challenge sign-up post is here . This one runs through Januar...

"Though Champagne plays an important role in the history of France it does not play an important role in the history of French cook...

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