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BookCritics (259 KP) rated Difficult Women in Books

May 16, 2017  
Difficult Women
Difficult Women
Roxane Gay | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book completely wreck me and validated my feelings, all at the same time. I can’t think of a woman that won’t relate to some of the garbage situations that the women in these book have to deal with, regardless of class, race, or sexual orientation.
Critic- The Shrinkette
Original Score- 5 out of 5

Read Review: https://theshrinkette.com/2017/01/12/arc-review-difficult-women-by-roxane-gay/
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2464 KP) rated The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #2)
Dorothy Gilman | 1985
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Carstairs sends Mrs. Pollifax off to meet a defecting Russian agent for her second case. However, soon her bodyguard is killed and she is in a race across Turkey to get herself and the agent out alive. Just as much danger, suspense, and fun as the first in the series.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-amazing-mrs-pollifax-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2464 KP) rated The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady (Puzzle Lady #11) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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The Puzzle Lady vs. The Sudoku Lady (Puzzle Lady #11)
Parnell Hall | 2010
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Cora Felton meets her Japanese counterpart as a mysterious death happens in town. Now it's a race for honor to solve the crime. There's plenty of humor in this book, and the story is pretty good. But the characters are getting stale, especially Dennis. Enjoyable, but most for the fans.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-puzzle-lady-vs-sudoku-lady.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Purrsistently (46 KP) rated Breakfast at Tiffany's in Books

Jun 21, 2018  
Breakfast at Tiffany&#039;s
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote | 1993
4
6.0 (5 Ratings)
Book Rating
Honestlys not sure how I feel about this one. There were glaring elements I hated (the narrating attitude about women and race especially), but things that I think are worth looking at like child “marriage” in the US and calling a girl who’d been raped repeatedly as a pre teen a “whore.” It’s a solid and deserved slap in the face for anyone inclined to idealize the period.
  
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Joyce Carol Oates recommended Version Control in Books (curated)

 
Version Control
Version Control
Dexter Palmer | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Version Control is perhaps the strangest fictional work of appropriated voices and subjects. It’s set in a surreal near future — or several near futures — as well as in several pasts. Though issues of race play virtually no role in the stories, one character, an African-American physicist, recalls dropping out of a writing course because the professor thought he should be mining his heritage instead of inventing science fiction."

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