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Glass of Time (Cox)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/glass-of-time-cox
of...Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White. It's a melodrama, of course, chock-full of revenge, romance, duplicity, concealed identities and murder most frequent—but melodrama on a grand scale. By any sensible standard,...
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from Japan unless it’s bizarre: businessmen on crowded subways reading pornographic manga, teenage girls buying cell-phone romance novels by the millions. But here’s an example of Japanese reading habits that’s just as odd, if less sexy: Yoko Ogawa’s...
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forced to consider his country's place in the world. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains threatens Sai's new-sprung romance with her handsome Nepali tutor and causes their lives to descend into chaos, they, too, are forced to confront their...
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up in a Lancashire mill town (Stockport— now part of Greater Manchester) in north west England, and the Romeo and Juliet romance experienced by his sister and her Christian lover. The book was started when he was 93 and published in 2007 when he was 96....
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in Santiago, Chile, then in Brussels, Belgium, and elsewhere in Europe. Returning to Chile in 1996, Allende translated romance novels (including those of Barbara Cartland) from English to Spanish but was fired for making unauthorized changes to the...
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of Arkansas, Fayetteville • Awards—James L. Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence Jackie Collins has kept the literary romance world well stocked with claws-out, upper-crust melodramas. But until E. Lynn Harris came along, the genre lacked a...
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Ladies' Man (Lipman)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/ladies-man-lipman
Sam Sacks of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Lipman "has long been one of our wittiest chroniclers of modern-day romance." The author was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from Simmons College in Boston where she studied...
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11/22/63 (Review)https://www.litlovers.com/book-reviews/wonderfully-written/11-22-63-review
know King as a master of horror. But in 11/22/63 he shows his chops across a range of genres—realism, historical fiction, romance, suspense, philosophy, and speculative fiction (i.e., time travel)—and, no surprise, he's good at all of it. Roughly, the...
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Charles Bon, the son that Sutpen has cast off. In both Quentin and Shreve's retelling and in Miss Rosa's, he is a figure of romance, while in Mr. Compson's version he is an opportunist, using both Judith and Henry to revenge himself upon his father....
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Noble.) Book Reviews As formulaic as this plot might sound, Mr. Perrotta uses it not to construct a conventional screwball romance but to create a sad-funny-touching story that looks at the frustrations and perils of life in suburbia through darkly...
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Alias Grace (Atwood)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/alias-grace-atwood
further graduate studies at Harvard University for two years but did not finish her dissertation, “The English Metaphysical Romance." She has taught at the University of British Columbia (1965), Sir George Williams University in Montreal (1967–68), the...
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Abundance (Naslund)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/abundance-naslund
is usually a vain endeavor (Shakespeare is one of the few who regularly pulled it off); so it's best in reading Naslund's romance to think of it as a kind of Forever Amber punted across the channel from Restoration England to Versailles. Liesl...
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Life of Pi (Martel)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/life-of-pi-martel
the biblical story of Noah, who was spared from the flood while God washed away the sinners? 20. Is Life of Pi a tragedy, romance, or comedy? 21. Pi defends zoos. Are you convinced? Is a zoo a good place for a wild animal? 22. What did you think of Pi's...
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Life's a Beach (Cook)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/lifes-a-beach-cook
chance to be a de facto stage mom. Accompanying her nephew on location will help her avoid analyzing her latest flagging romance and perhaps spark some creative energy. Soon the sisters will need each other to confront disappointment and heartbreak....
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Light in August (Faulkner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/light-in-august-faulkner
desire for her? 12. Critic Eric Sundquist has remarked that “violence and sexuality determine the contours of the South’s romance of blood” and that Joe is “a character whose very physical and emotional self embodies the sexual violence of racial...
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Likeness (French)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/likeness-french
leads a Dublin detective to insert herself into the victim's life.… Police procedures, psychological thrills and gothic romance beautifully woven into one stunning story. Kirkus Reviews Discussion Questions 1. Early on in the book, Cassie Maddox says...
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Lucky One (Sparks)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/lucky-one-sparks
John Bedford Lloyd (A King's Ransom) handles the Southern accents with ease, believably voicing characters of both genders. Romance fans will enjoy this. Johannah Genett - Library Journal Discussion Questions 1. After Thibault finds the photo of a girl...
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Loving Frank (Horan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/loving-frank-horan
Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage. Despite the title, this is not a romance, but a portrayal of an independent, educated woman at odds with the restrictions of the early 20th century. Frank and...
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Jackson, writing in Salon, called "a fascinating attempt to compress an almost druidic reverence for wild nature, Arthurian romance, Germanic folklore, the courtly poetry of Renaissance England and the fantastic beasts of Greek and Norse mythology into...
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Listener (Caldwell)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/listener-caldwell
move, and the family struggled. At the age of eight she started to write stories, and in fact wrote her first novel, The Romance of Atlantis, at the age of twelve¹ (although it was to remain unpublished until 1975). In 1919 she married William F. Combs,...
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