Tag: literature review
member name: Janelle Martin
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January 21, 2006 10:13 PM EST --
The premise is a simple one, the execution is magic. A young man on the run from himself and some nasty criminals in his hometown stumbles upon a legendary temple to the book on the banks of the Seine. . . .
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October 13, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
I wrote this article in August for an online publication which did not end up publishing it. So, even though it is already early October I thought it was worth posting here.
2006 has been a year of . . .
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May 07, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
The Seas, Samantha Hunt's debut novel, relates the coming of age story of a nameless 19-year-old young woman as she struggles to free herself from small town life and a terrifying destiny. Branded . . .
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July 02, 2006 03:22 PM EDT --
Dodecahedron: A Platonic Solid composed of twelve pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. It has twenty vertices and thirty edges. Definition from Wikipedia.org
Paul Glennon's The . . .
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July 18, 2006 10:00 AM EDT --
On a cold winter's night in 1964, Norah Henry goes into labour. Unable to reach the hospital in time, her husband David, an orthopedic surgeon, and his nurse Caroline, assist Norah with the delivery. . . .
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December 15, 2006 01:34 AM EST --
Vida Winter, one of Britain’s best-loved novelists, is known for her reluctance to share the truth of her life story. Having spent the past six decades creating outlandish stories, Vida is facing . . .
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January 05, 2006 10:16 AM EST --
What do you get when you take a frustrated late-night DJ who's also a closet werewolf? An engaging new heroine ironically named Kitty!
Carrie Vaughn has entered an already crowded market with the . . .
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May 16, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
In a complete departure from her previous novels, Jean Hanff Korelitz's third novel is a modern retelling of Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose). Set in Manhattan . . .
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May 28, 2006 11:42 PM EDT --
"…stimulating the memory was as much a manipulation of the past as banning it."
The Ministry of Pain (Ministarstvo boli) explores what it means to be a refuge, to live in exile from your . . .
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June 19, 2006 10:32 PM EDT --
"To me, the world of fiction has always been more satisfactory than the world of reality." Clare Morrall
Peter Straker lives in silent penance on the Devon coast in an old lighthouse, kept company . . .
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July 09, 2006 01:26 AM EDT --
Evan Malloy realizes he died in 1992, but the how and why of his suicide eludes him. Trapped on the property of his home in Seattle, his only companion a ginger tom, Evan watches a progression of residents . . .
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August 15, 2006 11:00 PM EDT --
"Being an unpublished author is a bit like being an asylum seeker. You know this is where you belong - your Promised Land - but the gate is guarded. You're desperate to get in, but you don't . . .
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August 27, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
Jack Tennant is called home by his mother to reconcile with the father he hasn't seen in 15 years, after the old man succumbs to a stroke and ends up with "Locked-In" Syndrome. Hahva, his . . .
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February 05, 2007 12:36 AM EST --
West of Mars (my friend Susan who is also a Gatherite) and her friend Erica are hosting a fantastic contest aptly named "Debut a Debut." You can find all the details here however the basic details . . .
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March 19, 2007 12:49 AM EDT --
Jane Austen’s story of love and misunderstanding in late 18th century England is perhaps best known for its opening sentence: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession . . .
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July 27, 2007 02:23 AM EDT --
Twenty years after the tragic event which ended their childhood friendship, Danny has been summoned to a Gothic castle under renovation by his cousin Howie. Once subjected to abuse for his “geekiness,” . . .
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July 11, 2006 12:01 AM EDT --
The Uncrowned Queen, the finalé to Posie Graeme-Evans' Anne trilogy, picks up eighteen months after The Exile. Commencing shortly after Edward Plantagenet, Edward the IV, lost the throne of England . . .
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January 10, 2006 01:13 PM EST --
The announcement of a new book by Nicholas Basbanes is an occasion of joy for any devoted reader who loves reading about books. My copies of Basbanes' works are the backbone of my collection of books . . .
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October 10, 2006 10:36 AM EDT --
Jackson Brodie, retired from the private investigation business after a client leaves him her millions, has spent the last two years living a life of ease in France. In Edinburgh for his girlfriend Julia's . . .
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October 23, 2006 09:01 PM EDT --
"I am someone
I never would have imagined.
A secret.
A dream…
body and soul…"
Growing up in the small village of Encaleflora, Spain, Estrella deMadrigal is aware of the Spanish Inquisition . . .
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