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Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Will the Real Carolyn Keene Please Stand Up in Books

Dec 31, 2019  
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Will the Real Carolyn Keene Please Stand Up
Christine Keleny | 2014
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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I was given a copy of this book by NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I have loved Nancy Drew Mysteries since I was 8. I've had to have read over 200 of the various series.

This book is a wonderful tribute to the character of Nancy and Carolyn, the pen name for the books.

The book spans almost a hundred years and goes into the life of Edward Stratemeyer and have s family and the ghostwriter Mildred.

I'm sure there will be some folks disappointed that this isn't Nancypalooza straight out the gate but it certainly is a cracking good piece of historical fiction.
  
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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor in Books

Oct 6, 2020  
Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor
Rebecca Rosenberg | 2019
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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The Colorado Gold Rush of the late 1880s both made and broke many people. Among them was Horace Tabor. But the jewel in Tabor's crown wasn't one of his mines, it was the woman he fell in love with, known as "Baby Doe". This biographical, historical, women’s fiction novel is about how Elizabeth McCourt from Oshkosh WI goes to Colorado as Harvey Doe's young bride, and how she ends up as "Baby Doe Tabor". You can read my #bookreview of "Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor" by Rebecca Rosenberg on my blog now! https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/10/31/marriages-of-the-mines/
  
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Natalie Portman recommended Cloud Atlas in Books (curated)

 
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry
7.9 (10 Ratings)
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"This was the present I gave everyone I knew for three years. It’s six different stories told in different time periods and genres: One is historical fiction, another is a ’70s thriller mystery, the sixth is a post­apocalyptic story. It’s one of the most beautiful, entertaining, challenging books—something that takes all your attention. I think the stories are meditations on violence, specifically the necessity of violence. The book ends with a beautiful exchange: ‘…only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean! Yet what is an ocean but a multitude of drops."

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