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Enduring Love (McEwan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/enduring-love-mcewan
was accused of plagiarism, specifically a passage in Atonement that closely echoed one from a 2012 memoir, No Time for Romance, by Lucilla Andrews. McEwan acknowledged using the book as a source for his work; in fact, he had included a brief note at the...
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Eva Luna (Allende)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/eva-luna-allende
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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a solution. Janie's boyfriend—sensible, funny, with problems of his own--is an excellent foil for her intensity. Their romance is natural and believable. Cooney again demonstrates an excellent ear for dialogue and a gift for protraying responsible...
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- Category: Young Adult Fiction
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thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard, prosaic reality.” How does this relationship serve as a contrast to other...
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Feast of Love (Baxter)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/feast-of-love-baxter
in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom. Washington Post Book World Feast of Love is a radiant work of art that evokes the romance that the characters describe. To find out how things play out for this extraordinary bunch of ostensibly ordinary...
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Firefly Lane (Hannah)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/firefly-lane-hannah
that she believed I would become a writer. For the next few months, we collaborated on the worst, most clichéd historical romance ever written. After my mom's death, I packed up all those bits and pieces of paper we'd collected and put them in a box in...
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Fortune is a Woman (Adler)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/fortune-is-a-woman-adler
Using standard rags-to-riches ingredients, she gives us a trio of Cinderellas who suffer and survive their way to fortune, romance and a predictable happy ending. Set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and Hong Kong, the novel tells the stories of...
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them or do you intend to? How do they compare to your own recipes... or you own way of cooking? 9. Were you expecting the romance between Joey and Loretta to develop? When Joey returns why does Francesca begin to develop reservations about what she's...
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is universally regarded as a modern classic. (From the publisher.) The French Lieutenant's Woman, on one level a historical romance, is on another level an audacious, innovative experiment in storytelling. The novel portrays Victorian characters living...
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Friend of My Youth (Munro)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/friend-of-my-youth-munro
and Comox, British Columbia Even though Alice Munro is known for her love stories, don't mistake her for just another romance writer. Munro never romanticizes love, but rather presents it in all of its frustrating complexity. She does not feel impelled...
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Gate at the Stairs (Moore)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/gate-at-the-stairs-moore
noticer. Tassie's instincts are sound, but her comic innocence takes a tragic turn, as she falls into her first serious romance, finds a job as nanny for an adopted, biracial baby and suffers some aftershocks from 9/11 a long way from Manhattan. The...
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Gates of Fire (Pressfield)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/gates-of-fire-pressfield
Culminating in the electrifying and horrifying epic battle, Gates of Fire weaves history, mystery, and heartbreaking romance into a literary page-turner that brings the Homeric tradition into the 21st century. (From the publisher.) Author Bio •...
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combines exquisite writing, vivid personalities, and imaginative storylines while subtly contemplating race, romance, family, and self. 2005 - Gods in Alabama 2006 - Between, Georgia 2008 - The Girl Who Stopped Swimming 2010 - Backseat Saints 2012 - A...
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to know them so well. The central question—what happened to Harriet?—is answered in due course, and other matters involving romance and revenge are wrapped up as well. It's a book that lingers in the mind. Patrick Anderson - Washington Post It’s like a...
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Girls in Trucks (Crouch)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/girls-in-trucks-crouch
her lifelong friend, Georgia. How would you reconcile Sarah’s mother’s staunch Southern gentility with this unconventional romance? 12. Toward the end of the book we meet J.T., a classic Southern man from Sarah’s youth, with the truck to prove it. How...
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Glass Castle (Walls)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/glass-castle-walls
fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town—and the family—Rex Walls had...
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Glass Palace (Ghosh)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/glass-palace-ghosh
lush, dangerous atmosphere of teak camps in the Burmese forest with fine detail—a perfect balance for the broad strokes of romance and serendipity that drive the story forward. The book's memorial power is so strong that, near the end, when Rajkumar, an...
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Golden Mean (Lyon)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/golden-mean-lyon
offers us that rarest of treats: a book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and sings like an earthy romance. Jury - Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, 2009 top of page Book Club Discussion Questions 1. What do you believe is the...
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Goldengrove (Prose)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/goldengrove-prose
detail, Nico relates the subsequent events of that summer. Nico was a willing confidant and decoy in Margaret's clandestine romance with a high school classmate, Aaron, and Nico now finds that she and Aaron are drawn to each other in their mutual...
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Good Soldier (Ford)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/good-soldier-ford
essays, poetry, memoir and literary criticism, and collaborated with Joseph Conrad on two novels, The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). His novel Ladies Whose Bright Eyes (1911, extensively revised in 1935) is, in a sense, the reverse of Mark...
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