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Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

This one flew across my radar from a conference I attended. I’m not an overly talkative person but I also seem to cross the boundary between extrovert and introvert. I do get a bit annoyed that sometimes the loudest person in the room is the most heard although they often don’t have much to say. It’s …

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Cover of The Storyteller

Book review: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

5 out of 5 stars I have read a couple of other Jodi Picoult books and decided she wasn’t really for me. She seemed a bit preachy, somehow. However, The Storyteller was brilliant. I loved it from the start, the writing was excellent, I felt for the characters and the story was so sensitively written. …

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Book review: Swimming lessons by Claire Fuller

Book review: Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller

3 out of 5 stars A sad, dissatisfied wife and mother writes letters to her husband which are buried between the pages of the books in his library. In her last missive, she asks him to burn the letters (including the books one suspects) so that her two daughters cannot know the truth of their …

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Winter warmth is a cuddly friend: Robin Bower

Reading singlehanded

Even if Spring is only two weeks away, I still think of August as the dead of winter, hibernation time, time to contemplate, meditate and cogitate. The death of the fiscal year is a time when we are forced to look back on what we’ve done with our year, how much money we made, but …

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