White truffles in winter

From Rosemarie Jerome Author: N.M. Kelby White truffles in winter : a novel This literary gem needs to be shared. It is a quiet, intense portrayal of a man who loved two women but whose passion was food. This man is the great French chef Auguste Escoffier and this is his elegant “memoir in meals.” [...]

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The Great Gatsby

From Julie Rosslee author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby I haven’t read this text in years and it was such a thrill to be able to pick it up and fall in love with Fitzerald’s story once again.  Reading this as a teenager, I may have been naive about several of the characters’ identity [...]

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The Count of Monte Cristo

From Rebecca Segers author: Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes has it all: youth, love, and career mobility.  But a jealous rival for his job and another for his fiance falsely accuse him of Bonapartism and a judge looking out for his own interests seals the deal, sending Dantes to the prison [...]

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The house of mirth

From Charlene Muhr author: Wharton, Edith The house of mirth [sound recording] I recently listened to the audio book The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, read by Barbara Caruso.  Caruso mesmerizes the listener with her reading of this classic novel.  Wharton’s novel was first published in 1905, and it was her first important work of [...]

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Nothing

FromTeen Book Reviewer author: Teller, Janne Nothing I just completed reading the book “Nothing” by Janne Teller. This novel is originally written in Danish and has won the Best Children’s Book Prize from the Danish Cultural Ministry. The book has a foreign feel to it what with a lot of the names being kept in [...]

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