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January 10, 2012

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: She's Come Undone Author: Wally Lamb Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Singapore Books Release Date: 1992 Pages: 405

She’s Come Undone is the story of a developing woman and her journey through life as she struggles to find her place. Told with every heart-breaking step of a woman who can never truly accept who she is and with all the scars that life has left her, Delores Price is a character that will stick with the reader.

What is most impressive about this

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Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Author: Jacki Lyden Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 1999 Pages: 258

It seems Jacki Lyden has been running all her life. After college in Indiana and Cambridge, England she joined the rodeo trail; later, as a broadcaster and journalist, she began to travel all over the world. She even wrote this book on the run – starting it in London, showing it to a friend in Baghdad, continuing it in Canada and finishing

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Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell by Karen O’Brien

Filed under: Book Reviews,Music,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Joni Mitchell Author: Karen O'Brien Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Virgin Pub Release Date: 2002 Pages: 374

From her self-titled debut in 1968 through the masterpiece of Blue, her jazz experimentation years and her most recent album, Travelogue Now, Joni Mitchell has released 19 albums over the course of a career that has spanned almost 40 years. She’s a musician who has managed to be consistently innovative on her recorded output and who has worked

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Sex, Lies and Fairytales by Kate Thompson

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sex, Lies and Fairytales Author: Kate Thompson Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: 2005 Pages: 333

Cleo Dowling won the lottery and is now running a bookshop in a small West of Ireland village called Kilrowan. Cleo and her gorgeous husband Pablo are definitely living the dream but all too quickly the dream becomes a nightmare when Pablo’s commission to paint a Dublin 4 princess threatens to ruin their marriage.

Pixi Pirelli is an incredibly

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Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sexing the Cherry Author: Jeanette Winterson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2014 Pages: 169

Fantastical, poetical and a joy to read, Jeanette Winterson melds true historical events with pure imagination in a book that rambles from 1600s to present day London. Sexing the Cherry is a fairytale for adults, complete with characters that verge on the unbelievable and all the magic that fairytales hold.

The loosely held plot is the tale of a young

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Portrait In Sepia by Isabel Allende

Filed under: Book Reviews,Literature — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Portrait in Sepia Author: Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden, Genre: Literature Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2002 Pages: 304

If you are an Isabel Allende fan you’ll already know what to expect from her new book. ‘Portrait In Sepia’ is a densely plotted tale set amongst an extended family, peopled by unforgettable exiles and marginalized characters and written in Allende’s typically rich and sensuous manner. This is the third in a loose trilogy

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Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

Filed under: Book Reviews,Music,Biography — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Scar Tissue Author: Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Genre: Biography, Music Publisher: Little Brown GBR Release Date: 2005 Pages: 465

Months after putting this book down, I still find myself wound up and generally disgusted by the amount one person can massage his ego between two covers. In stark contrast, James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces brought readers into the terrifying and helpless world of drug addiction with an unparalleled honesty that made Anthony Kiedis&#8217

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Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Scarecrow Author: Matthew Reilly Genre: Thriller Publisher: Pan Macmillan Release Date: Dec 1 2009 Pages: 524

This is Matthew Reilly’s third offering in the Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield series, following on from Ice Station Matthew Reilly admits that he set out to make this book a faster book that was more densely packed with plot than his previous books; no mean feat considering how fast moving and action-packed his earlier books were

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Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Notes on a Scandal Author: Zoe Heller Genre: General Fiction Release Date: 2007-01 Pages: 243

Notes on a Scandal’s rapid pace and fascinating characters is enough to keep a reader’s fingers turning as Zoë Heller tackles the difficult subject of age of consent. She explores the subject through the relationship between two close friends; Sheba, a teacher that gets involved with one of her pupils, and Barbara, Sheba’s colleague

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Song for Salamander by Miriam Gallagher

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Artist @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Song for Salamander Author: Miriam Gallagher Genre: Fiction Publisher: Trafford Publishing Release Date: Nov 1 2003 Pages: 238

The press release starts off like this ‘When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job’s Infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkaesque journey. Just before Christmas, his plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman, who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faced with mounting odds, as his past

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