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Rachel and the Upside Down Heart by Eileen Douglas I first came across this true story while browsing through the shelves of my neighborhood library, a small but voracious reader all of 4 years old. This is the story of Rachel, a 4 year old girl from a beautiful country house in Kentucky whose world suddenly changes [...] If I were to be anywhere in the world, isolated for any prolonged period of time I would want this book as my companion read. The Glass Palace is a sweeping novel that instantly became one of my all-time favorites. Indian writer Amitav Ghosh crafts a landscape of Indian and Burmese culture through vivid images [...] She was my new favorite author. After having read the excellent book of stories, The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, I was determined to read everything Melissa Bank had ever written. Luckily, the rest of the catalog consisted only of her 2nd novel, The Wonder Spot. I was a bookish college sophomore, someone that [...] My freshman year in college, I had what may have been the worst English teacher ever in my life. The only reason why I can remember her with semi-fond memories is because she chose Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood as one of our four required semester readings. I won’t argue that it’s the [...] |
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