top ten tuesday
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Top Ten Books of 2016
This week’s topic is the Top Ten Best Books of 2016, from The Broke and the Bookish. My top ten, in approximate order of reading (oldest to most recent): Works of Love – Soren Kierkegaard In the Land of White Death – Valerian Albanov Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea Continue reading
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I didn’t "click" with
Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Saw this over at Hamlette’s blog, and thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane. Here goes – and hope I don’t tread on any toes. 😉 Werther from The Sorrows of Young Werther. Everyone from A Passage to India. (Sorry, Forster.) Irene Adler from “A Continue reading
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