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Review: Embers

Embers by Sándor Márai My rating: 2 of 5 stars I didn’t pick this book up because it sounded like a good mystery or something that could fool me; the description on the back of the book was enough to tell me what was going to happen. I was more interested in the way everything […]

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Review: Brava, Valentine

Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani My rating: 0 of 5 stars I didn’t finish this book. I’m not going to rate it because I really didn’t care for it, not because the writing was bad, but because I expected it to be more like Trigiani’s “Rococo”, otherwise I wouldn’t have picked it up in the […]

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Review: Rococo

Rococo by Adriana Trigiani My rating: 4 of 5 stars To put it simply, I liked this book. It had moments of tension, humor, disappointment, and straight up interior design heaven. Here and there the design descriptions were just a little too much, a little boring, but not enough to deter me from listening and […]

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Review: One Fifth Avenue

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell My rating: 2 of 5 stars There was next to nothing good about this book. Listen to all the other reviewers on Goodreads who warned you to stay away from it. Candace Bushnell had a major hit with Sex and the City, and I can’t say I’ve read it, […]

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Review: 1Q84

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami My rating: 2 of 5 stars I know this was a bestseller, but I really don’t see it. Everything it was leading up to just sort of fell off at the end and left me wondering what the whole point was. That’s not a spoiler, you’d still have to read most […]

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