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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez YES! VICTORY!!!! Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson BIT the win for yesterday’s vote! (If you feel like joining me in celebration, please turn up the volume and sing along with me and Freddie Mercury! Click on his photo for the … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez Okay, so if you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that my book of choice, Angus, Thongs, and Full-Throttle Snogging did NOT make the next round. It’s okay! As long as people are reading, voting, and LOVING books, … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez Okay, book lovers. Time to go MAD! The first two books up for battle are: Beastly by Alex Finn Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison Guess what I’m voting for? I want ANGUS, THONGS, … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez Okay, Valentine’s Day is done. We’ve all been there, done that. But, who’s to say that our capacity to love has diminished? “Certainly, not I,” says the Big Bad Wolf (okay, so I’m paraphrasing.) And so, if you’ve overcome the … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez Category: Fiction Author: Lynn Coady Format: Hardcover, 337 pages Publisher: House of Anansi Books ISBN: 978-0-88784-296-2 Pub Date: September 3, 2011 Giller Prize Short List Finalist The Antagonist by Lynn Coady was a short listed book finalist … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez And the winner is… Lindsay (at Turning the Pages) Valentine’s Day has come and gone. It was a day for wearing red and your heart on your sleeve, plus a chance to enjoy some chocolate goodness, … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez There seems to be a trend with other book bloggers in sharing what kinds of books are in their mailboxes. I am 90% supportive of my fellow book-blogging friends and 10% jealous. Because really, I am … Continue reading
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“My grade five teacher made me jump on a trampoline when spelling words out from a thesaurus. She was responsible for my love of language—or jumping. Either way, I always knew where I needed to land. It was to writing.” … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez I had left his apartment before he returned with breakfast. He had kissed my eyelids while I pretended to sleep, nervous of the delicacy that pervaded everything. We discovered our unnamed loneliness in each other’s mouths, our … Continue reading
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By Zara D. Garcia-Alvarez Category: Fiction Author: Johanna Skibsrud Format: Hardcover, 170 pages Publisher: Hamish Hamilton ISBN: 978-067-0066-308 Pub Date: September 20, 2011 The title of Johanna Skibsrud’s collection of stories is how I felt in describing it for this review. … Continue reading
