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I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Archive for December, 2006

“But, she thought, her story wasn’t over yet.  Possibilities remained.  Sometimes Agnes felt frozen in the expectation of a remarkable destiny that might still materialize” (p 36).
“She had this reaction at church when a familiar hymn was sung, at the symphony when the violins were exquisite, even at baseball games when the tenor began the […]

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This one I quite liked the premise of,  a woman that discovers that life isn’t over after divorce.
Or so it said on the back.
But the thing is, she didn’t get divorced, she had a three week seperation in which she had wild sex, then her and her husband got back together and lived happily ever […]

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SELLING OUT - Amanda Lees

Wordy McWordy. Each paragraph had about thirty adjectives.
Otherwise, aside from really, far too many words, it was a classic story line.  They love each other, but they don’t know that the other loves them back.

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THE LOST ART OF KEEPING SECRETS - Eva Rice

Really, really, really NICE.
I pretty much loved this story.  Not entirely because it was genius, but because it was so nice.  The characters were loveable, the story was sweet, the time, the house.  It was sweet and nice.

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MAKING YOUR MIND UP - Jill Mansell

Cheesy with some clever bits.
The American character used British slang.  Which is incredibly annoying.

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