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10 Days of Books: Day 1 – One Book that Changed My Life
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen I admit it; I read the book after seeing the 1995 mini-series starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. It was 2004, I think, so not all that long ago. I have been...
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10 Days of Books: Day 2 – One Book I’ve Read More Than Once
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith This list could be as long as my arm but I’m choosing Rose because it is an excellent book that no one knows about. It is historical fiction (shocker) set in 19th century...
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10 Days of Books: Day 3 – One book you would want on a desert island
SAS Survival Handbook: For Any Climate, In Any Situation My husband and I joke that if the history had been filled with people like us we would still be impressed with our accidental discovery of...
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10 Days of Books: Day 4 – One Book That Made You Laugh
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis Funniest book ever. It would be easy for me to stop my review with those three words. There has never been another character that has made me laugh as much or as long as...
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10 Days of Books: Day 5 – A Book That Made You Cry
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The year was 1977. The teacher was Mrs. Lemon. Every day, she read aloud to my third grade class. I don’t remember if she read every day for the entire year or...
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10 Days of Books: Day 6 – A Book I Wish I Had Written
What book do I wish I hadn’t written? Gone Girl, Anything by Kate Morton, anything by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Bronte, Jacqueline Winspear, Anne Perry….the list could go on and on.
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10 Days of Books: Day 7 – Book I Am Currently Reading
Middlemarch by George Eliot I might be reading this book for the rest of my life. Okay, not really. It just fees like it is taking forever. For a novel that has been hailed as a masterpiece of...
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10 Days of Books: Day 8 – A Book I Used to Love But Don’t Anymore
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Last year, Laurelann at Austenprose celebrated the 200th anniversary of Sense and Sensibility with a year-long reading challenge. Participants chose how many...
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10 Days of Books: Day 9 – A Book I Have Been Meaning to Read
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo I started Les Miserables last year but didn’t get very far. What was it about the mid-19th century literary scene that made authors believe they needed to write these...
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10 Days of Books: Day 10 – Favorite Non-Fiction Book
Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen First published in 1932, Only Yesterday is a history of the Jazz Age or Roaring Twenties before it was distant enough in the past to receive those monikers....
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