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Daily Archives: May 31, 2015

Reading Challenge from January 2015

Posted on May 31, 2015 by nicolaliteraryramblings

It’s Mother’s Day here in France – so go ahead and indulge me. Am totally smitten by a beautiful yet much unneeded book I ended up buying (myself, any excuse) in W H Smith on the rue de Rivoli just recently … Continue reading →

Posted in Reading Challenge | Tagged All the Light We Cannot See, Amanda Hope, Anthony Doerr, books, Boris Pasternak, Brian Moore, Burial Rites, Cover Her Face, Daphne du Maurier, David Nicholls, December, Do No Harm, Doctor Zhivago, Elizabeth Winthrop, Emily St. John Mandel, Eowyn Ivey, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hannah Kent, Henry Marsh, Herman Koch, Huis Clos, Ian McEwan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jessie Burton, L.P. Hartley, Laline Paull, Margaret Forster, Middlemarch, P.D. James, Station Eleven, The Bees, The Brothers Karamazov, The Children Act, The Dinner, The Go-Between, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Miniaturist, The Snow Child, Three Men in a Boat, Us, Wake, We Are Not Ourselves | 13 Comments
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