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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson Penguin Modern Classics, 2009 First published in 1962 by Viking Books Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Merricat has been living with her sister...
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Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby [audiobook]
Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby Narrated by Jennifer Wiltsie, Ben Miles, and Bill Irwin Penguin Audio, 2009 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Imagine a girl called Iris listening to this on her walk to the...
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Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe
Sea of Ink – Richard Weihe Peirene Press, 2012 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Sea of Ink is a novella that consists of 51 chapters in which we are provided with an overview of the life of Bada Shanren,...
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway Phoenix, Orion Books, 1998 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * The Reader is not an easy book, nor is it a pleasant one. I...
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Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood Virago Press, 1979 I read the Dutch translation “Boven Water”, translated by Aris J. van Braam & published by Rainbow Pockets Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * I did not...
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Orange Reading: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller Bloomsbury, 2011 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * The Iliad and The Odyssey have been sitting on my shelf for a while now. I am ashamed to say that I never really...
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The Library of Unrequited Love by Sophie Divry
The Library of Unrequited Love – Sophie Divry Translated from the French La Cote 400 by Siân Reynolds MacLehose Press, February 2013 Review copy courtesy of the publisher Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository *...
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Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer
Love Virtually – Daniel Glattauer Translated from the German Gut gegen Nordwind by Jamie Bulloch and Katharina Bielenberg MacLehose Press, 2012 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * Love Virtually is, as the...
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Every Seventh Wave by Daniel Glattauer
Every Seventh Wave – Daniel Glattauer Translated from the German Alle sieben Wellen by Katharina Bielenberg and Jamie Bulloch MacLehose Press, February 2013 Review copy provided by publisher Buy:...
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Possession by A.S. Byatt
Possession – A.S. Byatt Vintage, 1991 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * That’s right, I have finally read Possession. And I loved it, as everyone predicted I would, though that love was not present from...
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Irises by Francisco X. Stork
Irises – Francisco X. Stork Narrated by Carrington Macduffy Listening Library, 2012 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * I think I might not need explain why I chose this particular audiobook. Given my first...
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The First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic
The First Rule of Swimming: A Novel – Courtney Angela Brkic Little Brown and Company, May 2013 Review copy from Netgalley Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * The First Rule of Swimming is the story of two...
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The Dinner by Herman Koch (& GIVEAWAY)
The Dinner – Herman Koch Translated from the Dutch Het Diner by Sam Garrett Atlantic Books, 2012 Review copy from the publisher Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * It is nearly impossible to summarise The...
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Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom Translated from the Dutch Rituelen by Adrienne Dixon Maclehose Press, July 2013** I read the Dutch version (Bezige Bij 2009, first published 1980) Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository...
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Read Along: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
I had forgotten that I won’t be near a computer this weekend, but I am looking forward to reading your posts and discussing our thoughts and ideas when I am able to check in again on Monday. Feel free...
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Ten White Geese / The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker (& GIVEAWAY)
Ten White Geese – Gerbrand Bakker Published in the UK as The Detour Translated from the Dutch De Omweg by David Colmer Penguin Books, 2013 Review copy from Netgalley Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * A...
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery Translated from the French L’Élégance du hérisson by Alison Anderson Gallic Books, 2009 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * I finally read The Elegance of the...
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Wise Children by Angela Carter
Wise Children – Angela Carter Vintage, 1992 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * I finally read an Angela Carter! Long as that took me, it actually wasn’t all that hard. I plunged in and did not let go and...
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart Disney Hyperion, 2008 Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * What can you say about a book that is universally beloved by bloggers and that has, I...
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The Illusion of Separateness by Simon van Booy
The Illusion of Separateness – Simon van Booy Harpercollins, July 2013 ARC from the publisher Buy: Amazon | Bookdepository * There is something about the titles of Simon van Booy’s books that is...
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