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Amy Tan recommended Midnight's Children in Books (curated)

 
Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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"This novel is cited by many of my author friends as the best in the English language. I, too, am awed by its beauty and intelligence, so much so that I sometimes feel I should stop writing. (I won’t.) The narrator of this story has been bestowed with telepathic powers by virtue of the time of his birth. This proves useful in recounting his life, which is coincidentally wrapped around historical events in India. Rushdie injects much political criticism of the powers that came to be, and this trait in his writing recalls for me George Orwell’s treatise on why we write: politics has much to do with it."

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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
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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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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Almost Famous Women: Stories in Books

Oct 7, 2020  
Almost Famous Women: Stories
Almost Famous Women: Stories
Megan Mayhew Bergman | 2015
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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No, this isn’t a book about the 2018 mid-term elections; it is a collection of historical, fictional short stories about real women we probably know nothing about, although some of them carry well-known names. I loved “Almost Famous Women” by Megan Mayhew Bergman when I read it, and I thought now would be a good time to remind people of this lovely collection. (Okay… I’ll admit, the results of the US elections did influence my choice to post about this particular older book review.) You can read this revised review on my blog now. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/12/25/women-who-orbited-fame/
  
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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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