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Before I Die 46 reviews Jenny Downham
David Fickling Books, 2007
Be prepared to cry for hours!!
+ A reluctant reader's point of view + Good Book
Tessa is a cancer patient, whom the doctors could no longer find a cure. Before she breathe her last, she wrote up a list of things to do (eg. sex, break the law, drugs etc).
The novel was written with a fluent flow, completely in a teenager's perspective. I finished it in a couple of hours, ...
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Love the One You're With 269 reviews Emily Giffin
St. Martin's Press, 2008
Fabulous!
+ Nothing Tougher than the "Sexy Ex" + Beyond Chick Lit + pretty good.
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Love Life 7 reviews Ray Kluun
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
If you want to cry this book is for you
+ A book with the power to make you feel + Painfully honest
I borrowed this book from the library just on chance alone. I have never heard of it before but just grabbed a random book off the shelf. I plan to purchase this book! I enjoyed it thouroghly from beginning to it's heart wrenching end. I think I cried for the last 30 pages of the book. ...
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Fatal Remedies 11 reviews Donna Leon
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Donna Leon does it again in Fatal Remedies
+ Social Relevance + A Husband and Wife in Crisis + Donna Leon, Not a Gondola In Sight + The Post-America World
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) 832 reviews Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful
+ 25 words or less + Incredible + Great Characters Living With Death
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The Beach House 150 reviews Jane Green
Viking Adult, 2008
The Beach House
+ Fun, beachy read
Good book - entertaining but not too deep. The perfect book to read at the beach!
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The Host: A Novel 684 reviews Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
Beautiful Host
+ Suspense, love, and betrayal... + Interspecies Stockholm Syndrome
No vampires appear in Meyer's latest novel, instead an alien species invades our planet and eventually the bodies of the human population. In the end most of these host lose their personality but not all. Such is the case of the young human female Melanie. She fights to keep her own identity in ...
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The Great Gatsby 1123 reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scribner, 1999
As American as apple pie...
+ What Can I Add? + The Summer of '22 + The Great Gatsby + An intimate, touching story that deserves its praise while still being thoroughly relevant despite its age; a solid "A"
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel 650 reviews David Wroblewski
Ecco, 2008
From the inside out ...
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a rare and stunning rebuke to the ordinariness of many a lesser novel. Over nearly 600 pages, Wroblewski traces the slow arc of a boy and dog story, fairly reinventing the genre in the process. Countless passages ring with a heartbrearking purity and clarity, ...
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Crow Lake Mary Lawson
Vintage, 2003
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you sense at once that his is the real thing - a literary experience to relish, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario, where tragedy ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1762 reviews Harper Lee
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
Excelent Book!
+ There is a reason this book will be read for centuries and centuries... + Tequila Mockingbird + Great!!Love this book + LOVE THIS BOOK!
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The Love of My Life 1 review Louise Douglas
Macmillan, 2008
Love of my Life - a beautiful love story
There are two love stories in this book which is mainly set in a small seaside resort in the North of England. The first real love story is between Olivia and her beloved husband Luca. They have been friends since childhood and their friendship develops into a secret teenage romance and then into a ...
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This Charming Man: A Novel 58 reviews Marian Keyes
William Morrow, 2008
Another success for Marian Keyes... Kudos for this fantastic novel. I loved it!
+ Couldn't put it down! + Witty and real + Marian Keyes is superb but this is by far not her best
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Crow Lake Mary Lawson
Vintage, 2003
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you sense at once that his is the real thing - a literary experience to relish, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous, slowburning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart in rural Northern Ontario, where tragedy ...
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel 650 reviews David Wroblewski
Ecco, 2008
From the inside out ...
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a rare and stunning rebuke to the ordinariness of many a lesser novel. Over nearly 600 pages, Wroblewski traces the slow arc of a boy and dog story, fairly reinventing the genre in the process. Countless passages ring with a heartbrearking purity and clarity, ...
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Fatal Remedies 11 reviews Donna Leon
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Donna Leon does it again in Fatal Remedies
+ Social Relevance + A Husband and Wife in Crisis + Donna Leon, Not a Gondola In Sight + The Post-America World
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The Love of My Life 1 review Louise Douglas
Macmillan, 2008
Love of my Life - a beautiful love story
There are two love stories in this book which is mainly set in a small seaside resort in the North of England. The first real love story is between Olivia and her beloved husband Luca. They have been friends since childhood and their friendship develops into a secret teenage romance and then into a ...
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This Charming Man: A Novel 58 reviews Marian Keyes
William Morrow, 2008
Another success for Marian Keyes... Kudos for this fantastic novel. I loved it!
+ Couldn't put it down! + Witty and real + Marian Keyes is superb but this is by far not her best
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The Beach House 150 reviews Jane Green
Viking Adult, 2008
The Beach House
+ Fun, beachy read
Good book - entertaining but not too deep. The perfect book to read at the beach!
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Before I Die 46 reviews Jenny Downham
David Fickling Books, 2007
Be prepared to cry for hours!!
+ A reluctant reader's point of view + Good Book
Tessa is a cancer patient, whom the doctors could no longer find a cure. Before she breathe her last, she wrote up a list of things to do (eg. sex, break the law, drugs etc).
The novel was written with a fluent flow, completely in a teenager's perspective. I finished it in a couple of hours, ...
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