by Marjane Satrapi Pantheon, 2003 My Rating: A My Synopsis: This is the story of the author’s childhood in Iran. As the story opens it is 1980 and Marjane is a ten-years-old student learning about the history of her country. Like most students her age she believes what is in the textbooks and what her [...]
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by Claire Avery A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2010 My Rating: A My Synopsis: Two sisters, Rachel and Sara, share the same father. Rachel’s mother is the first wife and Sara’s mother is his second wife. There are two more wives and numerous children. There is no divorce. They all live in the same house. [...] by Nora Roberts Berkley Books, 2010 My Rating: A Laurel McBane is the pastry chef at Vows, the wedding planning company she co-owns with her three best friends. The four friends have been close since childhood. In fact, one of their favorite childhood games was playing Wedding Day. Now, as adults, they manage to execute [...] by Raymond Briggs Alfred A Knopf, 1998 Ethel and Ernest is a lovely tribute to the author’s parents. Told in graphic novel form, the story stretches from the time they met until their deaths. The story takes place in London and covers the enormous changes that happened in the world from the 1930′s to the [...] by Jean Davies Okimoto Endicott and Hugh Books, 2009 My Rating: A Have you ever read a book that felt like it came from your own life? The Love Ceiling felt like that for me. Well, maybe not all the exact details, but in the general concepts. Imagine a main character who – is in [...] I am so grateful to those of you who recommended I read a book by Shaun Tan and, in particular, The Arrival. I sat out under a tree for a couple of hours just absorbing this book. I read the whole book three times and some parts several more times. That’s a lot of reading [...] |
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