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Bedside Books
Hi all! What are you reading? I am finishing my literary travel through Turkey with There Are Rivers in the Sky. This is my favorite book so far, besides Anne of Green Gables, which I have read many times before.… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
Hi all! What are you reading? I just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez, a native of Colombia. It was an interesting book, partly a realistic tale of several generations of a family, partly folklore. Next in… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I finished The Poisonwood Bible, which ends with The Congo, and all the Price women, figuring out what they want for their futures. I have journeyed on to Columbia with One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is a 1967 novel… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I finished my China book, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, which is a historical novel that explains the full horror of foot binding. It is quite a read. I am now in the Congo, with the novel The Poisonwood… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I am continuing my 80 books around the world tour. I finished The Secret River from Australia and have moved on to Russia with The Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Secret River is a wild story of what the… Continue reading
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Bedside Books
I have officially finished my first 80 Books around the world challenge, I Am Malala, from Pakistan, a great book to understand a bigger picture of that country’s history and challenges. I have started my next one, The Kite Runner,… Continue reading
