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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

Book #695 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I will put my cards on the table right at the start.  I have loved Agatha Christie’s work since I was a teenager, when I owned pretty much her entire works in secondhand...

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Emma – Jane Austen

Book #936 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The option of reading and reviewing a classic by Jane Austen is rather a relaxing entry in to a summer of 1001 Books for me.  I had read her entire canon when I was a...

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The Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin

Book # 326a Reviewer: Kara This classic novel of science fiction is the story of Shevek, a physicist from a 150-year-old socialist-anarchist experimental utopia on a moon. He has begun to see cracks in...

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The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

Book #770 Reviewer: Kara There is something about Lily Bart that sets her apart for everyone else in The House of Mirth. She is stunningly beautiful, which matters a lot to many of the men in the...

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Home – Marilynne Robinson

Book # 7b Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle The accolades for Marilynne Robinson’s Home are splashed across and inside the cover of the copy I borrowed from my local library. “One of the...

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Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki

 Book # 688a Reviewer: Kara Some Prefer Nettles is about Kaname and Misako, a married couple that is no longer in love. Both are having affairs, both are interested in divorce, but both are putting off...

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Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Book #940 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily After visiting the  Regency world by re-reading Emma and reviewing it here at the end of last year, I thought I would continue to reacquaint myself with the four Jane...

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Written on the body – Jeanette Winterson

Book #154 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily This is the second of four books by Jeanette Winterson to be reviewed here at the 1001 Books list.  The first was Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Having read and...

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The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Book #242 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel, published in 1985, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Governor General’s Award. The setting is the near future in the...

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The Gathering – Anne Enright

Book #9b Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily Published in 2007, this novel won the Man Booker Prize in the same year and two further Irish book awards the following year. Set predominantly in Dublin, the narrator is...

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