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November 14, 2017

MY ITALIAN BULLDOZER by Alexander McCall Smith

November 14, 2017

Book cover & rating - My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith

Food writer travels through Tuscany on a bulldozer — such a bizarre and hilarious image this premise painted. It sounded so ludicrous and I have to admit, it made me think of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. That set the bar of absurd humour unfairly high but I couldn’t help it. Perhaps it’s a good thing then, that My Italian Bulldozer wasn’t filled with tall tales, even if that slightly disappointed me.

· Categories: Fiction Keywords: british authors, culture, food and drink, relationships, romance, travel, work life, writing

January 10, 2015

FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell

January 10, 2015

Book cover of FANGIRL by Rainbow RowellFangirl was funny and sweet and wonderful. What I liked best was the college setting without an intense focus on romance. This book was about Cath who tried to find herself, even though she felt she was losing everything. She so desperately tried to hold on to familiarity through her high school boyfriend, her father and most importantly to her, her twin sister Wren. For the first time, she had to be truly independent. I believe that for many, college is the time to find oneself and Rowell presented this transition very well in Fangirl.

· Categories: Epic Recs, Fiction Keywords: alcoholism, american authors, college, family, fanfiction, friendship, humour, mental health, metafiction, on books, postmodernism, realistic fiction, romance, siblinghood, single parenthood, sisters, story-within-a-story, twins, writing

July 15, 2013

AND THEN THINGS FALL APART by Arlaina Tibensky

July 15, 2013

I am sorely disappointed. I picked up this book because of the premise. Keek is a writer who is cut off from her friends because she has no Internet access and her cell is broken. That to me was a promise that Keek would be an introspective character with witty or poignant observations to share….

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· Categories: Fiction Keywords: american authors, debut authors, family, realistic fiction, relationships, sylvia plath, writing

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