Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Category: Book Reviews
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A Fig Tree Recounts History [Book Review]
Star-cross lovers find themselves trapped in a civil war between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus
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Analyzing One of the New Poirot Mysteries [Book Review]
Diving into the writer who picked up Agatha Christie’s legacy with the authorization of her family
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The Death of the Aral Sea and an Abandoned Book
Not my best read, but the background story is too insane to pass
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Book Review: The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
15 years after the events set in her best seller, Margaret Atwood takes us to the heart of Gilead and shows us the dirty powers at work
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie’s First Book
The inception of the famous detective Hercule Poirot – and how an editor created one of the Belgian’s most famous scenes
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas [Book Review]
A classic of Brazilian literature about a man obsessed with himself
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Book Review: Home Fire, or being Pakistani in the UK
Kamila Shamsie mesmerizes us with an astonishing ending in this story about two Pakistani families tangled with the post-9/11 world in Europe.
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Book Review: Dear Life
Nobel winner Alice Munro shares snippets of life in rural Canada in the 1940s
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Book Review: Braving the Wilderness
Brené Brown on how to belong to yourself and others in a hyper-polarized era
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Doramar: Stories of Those Who Were Forgotten
Booker nominee Itamar Vieira Jr. explores the universe of domestic workers, enslaved men, executioners and the insane
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