Category: Literary Escapes
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_The Gods of Guilt (Lincoln Lawyer)_ by Michael Connelly
_The Gods of Guilt (Lincoln Lawyer)_ by Michael Connelly This is the second book in brief that I did for my freelance work. Remember that movie, “The Lincoln Lawyer” with Matthew McConaughey? Well, this is another story with the same character. To be honest, I was pretty appalled at the quality of this book, but it…
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_I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban_ by Malala Yousafzai
_I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban_ by Malala Yousafzai Some months back, my friend P asked me if I had heard about this girl in Pakistan who had been shot and then taken to the UK for treatment. I had no idea, of course, given…
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_A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle)_ by Ursula K. Le Guin
_A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle)_ by Ursula K. Le Guin Back in the days of L, I first heard of Ursula Le Guin. I had never heard the name before although she is apparently well-known amongst young adult readers. It must have been in a time that by-passed me…. Since I do occasionally…
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_Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption_ by Laura Hillenbrand
_Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption_ by Laura Hillenbrand Somehow this book got lost in my reading posts, which is funny because it came back into my life after having read a while ago. Laura Hillenbrand tells a biographical tale of Louis Zamperini, an Italian American from California who becomes…
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_World Without End_ by Ken Follett
_World Without End_ by Ken Follett This is the second novel following _Pillars of the Earth_, which I read earlier in the summer. The story continues a few generations later in the same area of England where life has not necessarily changed much in terms of people’s struggles to survive and overcome the power…
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_The Year of the Flood_ by Margaret Atwood
_The Year of the Flood_ by Margaret Atwood Since I still had the freedom to keep reading, I decided to go ahead and read the second novel in the MaddAddam series. The first being _Oryx and Crake_ from a few weeks ago. The second novel is told from the perspective of two other characters who…
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_The Book of Tea_ by Kakuzo Okakura
_The Book of Tea_ by Kakuzo Okakura Since early in my Japan days and the days of Loren, this has been amongst my books to read, but never got to for various reasons. When I saw it was free to download on Kindle ages ago, I got it for that aloof ‘someday’. Well, ‘someday’ arrived…
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_Stillness Speaks_ by Eckhart Tolle
_Stillness Speaks_ by Eckhart Tolle This is the last of the _Power of Now_ series, if that is what they are called. It was not nearly as interesting or ‘helpful’ as the other two were, but it did still remind me of the importance of being quiet. Mostly, the book reiterates what is said in…
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_The Yellow Birds: A Novel_ by Kevin Powers
_The Yellow Birds: A Novel_ by Kevin Powers So…my reading frenzy has not quite ended yet; thus I will be updating more here over the next few days. 😉 A few months back my parents wanted to send a book on Kindle, but could not figure out how to do it and said they would…
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_Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy_ by Ken Follett
_Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy_ by Ken Follett So…I think this may be near the end of my summer reading books. There might be time for just a couple more before real life returns and I do not have as much freedom to read, but we shall see. 😉 Anyway, after…
