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The Ground Beneath Her Feet, by Salman Rushdie
This is the book that first introduced me to Salman Rushdie. I have since read some of his short stories and nonfiction pieces, and ...
 
- reviewed by BLNicholas
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Featured on January 14th, 2008
 
 
The Ice Queen, by Alice Hoffman
I am an Alice Hoffman fan; a big Alice Hoffman fan, but I was not a fan of this novel. Anyone familiar with Alice Hoffman knows how eloquent she can be. Her language is pure poetry; some of her nove...
 
- reviewed by sbarranca
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Featured on January 13th, 2008
 
 
Running with Scissors: A Memoir, by Augusten Burroughs
And you think your family is messed up? This is the general theme of the almost-too-insan...
 
- reviewed by MikeIsTall
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Featured on January 11th, 2008
 
 
In the eyes of Thomas Friedman the world is no longer round, it has become flat. This flattening is the result of the World Wide Web, high speed internet access, the fall of the Berlin Wall, outsourc...
 
- reviewed by gregjerome
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Featured on January 9th, 2008
 
 
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
One critic described this Nick Hornby novel as the book you would not want your girlfriend to read because it would give away all your secrets. While the quote is valid and painstakingly true, the...
 
- reviewed by MikeIsTall
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Featured on January 8th, 2008
 
 
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The China Lover, by Ian Burma
The one job qualification necessary for becoming celebrity is reinvention. Part this has to do with the reality and economics of the business: Marlon Brando had to audition for The Godfather because ...
reviewed by pcontino
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Many great minds throughout history have commented on the invisible war waged between the written word and technology. Kafka referred to the dawn of motion picture as the...
reviewed by BLNicholas
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American Wife , by Curtis Sittenfeld
It seemed like a good idea: a sexed-up, fictionalized autobiography of Laura Bush. For eight years the First Lady has been the "silent partner" in a White House that can boast that it changed the cou...
reviewed by pcontino
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The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
This is Dave King's debut fictional novel, and it is superb. It is centered around Howie, a Vietnam Vet. He became disabled in the war and has been trying to rebuild his life ever since. His disabi...
reviewed by sbarranca
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the novel that took this series to a whole new level. Not only is it more complicated, dramatic, and suspenseful than the first three, but it is also the found...
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