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I mostly post reviews of the books I'm reading lately.
Today
March
29
Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The
Florence A. Marshall
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Pankaj Mishra
Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol. 1
Thomas Malory, Janet Cowen, John Lawlor
2013
16
updated shelf
2013
08
reviewed
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Ian Mortimer
Mortimer has a radical idea: history can be looked at from a different perspective; “it is not just about the analysis of evi...
2013
30
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The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
"Mary Boleyn catches the eye of Henry VIII when she is a girl of just fourteen. But her joy is cut short when she discovers t...
2013
27
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Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
"Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers ...
2013
24
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Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Adichie
"In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives inersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a housebo...
2013
14
reviewed
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Mozart's Sister: A Novel
Super emotivo: lloré varias veces, me indigné, quería pelearme con los papás. Está muy bien investigado, la narrativa es vívi...
2013
10
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
When Jacob's grandfather dies, Jacob is only left with memories of the stories he was told as a child, some photographs and h...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
2013
09
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Review: The Constant Princess, Phillipa Gregory
Absolutely enjoyable. There’s so much I didn’t know about Katherine of Aragorn. The descriptions of Granada and the Alhambra ...
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Cold Magic
Kate Elliott
2013
07
reviewed
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
I had nightmares halfway through this book, it is so vivid. But besides the despair it gives when it narrates all the atrocit...
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Excelente libro. Muchas reflexiones sobre la vida, la guerra, la paz, la política. La prosa es inigualable, bellísima, muy fl...
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Shalimar the Clown: A Novel
Como todo lo que escribe Rushdie, me encantó. Más contemporáneo que sus otras obras pero sin abandonar el realismo mágico, la...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
Los zombies no son lo mío, pero si a ti te gustan y te gusta Austen, ésta es una buena opción: ligero, divertido, con pocos c...
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Thomas Malory, Janet Cowen, John Lawlor
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