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The Aleph Jorge Louis Borges
I am reading this short story as part of a Short Story Month on Beyond the Bookshelf’s substack focusing on Borges story The Aleph. So…
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The Hidden Hand Stella Rimington
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The Seventh Floor David McCloskey
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Letters of Note Shaun Usher
A book created from a website that shares letters written by a variety of people that deserve to be shared with a wider audience. In…
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The Good Earth Pearl S.Buck
What an unusual book. It won a Pulitzer and I believe its author also won a Nobel prize for Literature and this book is supposedly…
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Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
A second reading of this book made for a very different experience than the first. Lucy’s first husband, William, calls Lucy and demands that she…
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This is a fictionalised account of two families – the du Maurier’s and J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan – and is based on…
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The Radlett family are large, mad and very exciting. There’s the Bolter who gave birth to Fanny the narrator and then ran away; Aunt Emily…
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A slightly shady finishing school called College Sunrise situated in Ouchy near Lausanne is run by husband and wife. Parents with more money than sense…
Trying to read all the good books 