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Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Read for: Banned Books Week, 1% Well Read Challenge, Canadian Books Challenge
The more I read of Atwood, the more I come to realize what a brilliant writer she is.  I read a few of her books about ten years ago and I think I just wasn’t ready for them yet.  [...]

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Book Review: Tuesday’s Child by Louise Bagshawe

Tuesday’s Child by Louise Bagshawe
Oh, how I’ve missed chick lit.  I haven’t read in quite a while because of all the other great books I’ve been hearing about on the blogosphere.  Then in the last couple of weeks I’ve read four.  I just decided I needed something a little lighter to squeeze between Fahrenheit 451 [...]

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3 Book Reviews: Chick Lit

Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison
A fun book about four women, each with their own unique set of problems, who come together because they all love shoes.  They form a club with the purpose of trading shoes.  But, of course, they end of friends and help each other face their problems.
This one was exactly what [...]

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Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Read for: Banned Books Week
First of all, can I just say that I think it’s truly ironic that a book about books being illegal is banned?!  I had no idea what this book was about when I first picked it up except the whole dystopian future thing.  It seems pretty common [...]

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Book Review: Dancing with Ana by Nicole Barker

Dancing with Ana by Nicole Barker
Dancing with Ana is a young adult novel about a girl in high school who decide she is overweight and needs to go on a diet.  Immediately she begins starving herself.  There is also a subplot about a friend of hers that has an issue with her mother and is [...]

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