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The Beautiful Strangers
The Beautiful Strangers
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What do you get when you combine a Hollywood movie set and a ghost? One thing you might get is Camille Di Maio’s newest novel “The Beautiful Strangers” where she combines these two things with a young woman looking to help her grandfather solve a mystery, while also wanting to strike out on her own. Find out from my latest #bookreview what I thought of this historical, biographical novel.<br/>https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2019/03/29/some-like-it-with-ghosts/<br/>;
  
The Phantom&#039;s Apprentice
The Phantom's Apprentice
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In Heather Webb’s latest novel, she re-envisions Gaston Leroux’s story from 1910 about Christine Daaé, the soprano haunted by the Paris Opera’s “phantom.” This original dramatic work is now best known from its adaptation as a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Webb, however, has new ideas about who Christine and her phantom were. You can read more about what I thought of this novel in my review of “The Phantom’s Apprentice,”

https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2018/01/28/mystifying-masquerade/
  
Sadness Is a White Bird
Sadness Is a White Bird
Moriel Rothman-Zecher | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
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In this debut novel, author Moriel Rothman-Zecher delves into both the political and the emotional conflicts that can exist between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. However, despite the gravity of this subject, the author gives us a novel that is expressively written, that is important reading for anyone who wants to better understand the people behind these tenuous struggles. You can read more about this book in my review here.
https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2018/03/18/the-difficulties-of-devotions/
  
Sisters One, Two, Three
Sisters One, Two, Three
Nancy Star | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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While vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, a tragedy happens to the Tangle family during Ginger's 13th summer, and it ends up being the source of secrets and lies that follow her and her whole family throughout their lives. Nancy Star's novel investigates what happens when they uncover the unknown, and they each have to confront their own truths. Read what I thought of this fascinating novel that gets 4.5 stars in my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2017/03/10/counting-on-family/
  
    Deception

    Deception

    Philip Roth

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    'This swift, elegant, disturbing novel...stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction' New York...

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David McK (3752 KP) rated Sharpe's Battle (1995) in Movies

Sep 18, 2022 (Updated Sep 18, 2022)  
Sharpe&#039;s Battle (1995)
Sharpe's Battle (1995)
1995 | Action
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Mid-90s TV Sean Bean starring TV movie, loosely based on the Bernard Cornwell novel of the same name.

I say loosely based, but as not as loosely as the previous (Sharpe's Gold): here, the rough outline is pretty much the same as in the novel - sure, there are liberties taken and subplots left out and/or changed, but this *is* recognizably the same story, complete with Brigadier Guy Loup, the spanish Real Compania Irelande (sp?) et al