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| "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. " - Dr. Seuss | ||
| AUG 5, 2007 | ||
For his riveting eleventh novel, T. C. Boyle offers readers the closest thing to a thriller he has ever written, a tightly scripted page turner about the trials of Dana Halter, a thirty-three-year-old deaf woman whose identity has been stolen. (read review and excerpt) |
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| AUG 4, 2007 | ||
Divorce therapist Clare Ballenger helps women cope from her office, affectionately know as Casa Loco, in the quaint town of Fairhope, Alabama, but her own life, and those of loved ones, haven't benefited. Clare has misgivings about her best friend, Dory, and her marriage to charismatic and needy Son. Clare misses signs of trouble in her daughter's marriage, and has yet to deal with the death of her husband. Clare wants her patients and friends to go forward while she is stuck in the past... (read review) |
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| AUG 2, 2007 | ||
Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity—the object of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But Doug has other things on his mind. First there's his sixteen year-old stepson... (read review) |
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| AUG 1, 2007 | ||
The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush and Putin, which explains why he's manning an abandoned police station when a call comes in. (read review) |
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| JUL 31, 2007 | ||
Why a review of Harry Potter Book 7 at MostlyFiction.com? Certainly, we missed the big race to be the first. And it's not like we reviewed Books 1 through 6; and certainly there can't be a muggle alive that hasn't heard about Harry 7. But today is J. K. Rowlings birthday and she has achieved something that no other writer has ever done, so it seems appropriate that we should join in the chorus on this day. Moreso, Amanda's review is fun. Any book which causes its reader to forgo all that goes on around them, losing great chunks of time... is a book we recommend. And this series does that for its readers. (read Amanda's review) |
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| JUL 30, 2007 | ||
A fiercely brilliant first novel --full of the memories of a tragic past--is narrated by 31-year-old Justine Laxness, money manager for the New York based non-profit organization, the Aquinas Foundation. Justine, who spent a great deal of her childhood in China, has known her boss, Peter, for over twenty years. She nurses a deep unrequited love for Peter, and she's ferocioulsy protective of him... (read review and excerpt) |
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| JUL 29, 2007 | ||
When Nola Devlin is turned down for her dream job because she's overweight, she decides to become thin-or, at least, pretend to be. The alter ego she creates -- the thin, British, hip Belinda Apple -- is a smashing success who is offered movie proposals, national television appearances and even dates...though no one's met her in person, of course. (read review) |
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| JUL 27, 2007 | ||
Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer. Winner of the 2007 IMPAC Dublin International Award. (read review) |
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| JUL 26, 2007 | ||
A detested television journalist specializing in muckraking has been murdered. Inspector Petra Delicado and her sentimental sidekick Garzon are thrown into the ruthless world of show business, high society, and belligerent celebrities, where public and private lives meet in an explosive and deadly mix. Written by one of Spain's "best female writers." (read review) |
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| JUL 24, 2007 | ||
"...a marvelously entertaining blend of many different genres: medical thriller, psychological suspense, fantasy, martial arts adventure, romance, and crime drama, all neatly packaged into three hundred engrossing pages..." (read review) |
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| JUL 23, 2007 | ||
"The one thing that leaps out when you read about these authors is that they were all fairly disastrous individuals; and although they were probably no more so than anyone else whose life we know about, their example is hardly likely to lure one along the path of letters."—Javier Marías, Written Lives. (read review) |
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| JUL 22, 2007 | ||
Here's another good vacation read, especially if you like the hard-boiled novel genre. John Blake is a deeply emotionally scarred detective, actually ex-detective -- he's given up being a P.I. and is working as an administrastive assistant at a college, when a classmate/confidante is found dead from an apparent suicide. (read review) |
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| JULY 16 - JUL 21, 2007 | ||
I apologize for the brief interuption (once again) to MostlyFiction.com. Since last Saturday, I've been working on a BENEFIT PARTY & RIDE that my sister's friends are organizing to help raise money for her. During the meeting it became clear to me that I needed to volunteer my computer skills and thus have had to take my MostlyFiction.com time to work on forms, flyers, raffle tickets and just today a website: lori.lapierre-desalvo.com |
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| JUL 15, 2007 | ||
"This bit of fluff is just the kind of trashy fun that's made for the beach. The plot revolves around Paul, a struggling London novelist who is commissioned to ghostwrite a celebrity autobiography. This assignment, while distasteful to his intellectual sensibilities, is lucrative enough for him to swallow his pride..." (read review) |
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TALK TALK 
from 33 reviews
QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS 
HOW TO TALK TO A WIDOWER 
from 7 reviews
THE NAMING OF THE DEAD 
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 
THE CITY IS A RISING TIDE 
THE CINDERELLA PACT 
OUT STEALING HORSES 
from 5 reviews
PRIME TIME SUSPECT 
CUTTING SEASON 
WRITTEN LIVES 
SONGS OF INNOCENCE 
SERVICE WASH 
from 1 review
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