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Review: The White Masai

Review: The White Masai

Posted May 24, 2011 by Whitney in Review / 3 Comments

While on Safari with her then boyfriend, Corinne Hofmann glimpses a  Samburu Warrior, Lketinga and it is love at first sight.  She drops everything in her home of Switzerland and spends the next several months stocking him around Kenya.  Despite a drastic change in living conditions and neither speaking the same language, using broken English […]

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Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Posted September 7, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments

David Sedaris’s short stories have me laughing out loud with people turning the heads to look.  I can just hear them saying/thinking “What’s wrong with that girl?”  Nothing is off-limits for this author, his parent’s dog replacing their children, being taught to play guitar by a midget so his father can put a jazz bad […]

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Review: The Book Thief

Review: The Book Thief

Posted July 14, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 7 Comments

Featuring: Death, A Young Girl,  Hiding,  A Love Of Books Death serves as our narrator in this chilling novel.  He quickly explains that he does not in any way look like the grim ripper that pop culture has perceived him to be, such as wearing a black cloak and carrying a scythe, but instead is […]

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Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

Posted January 23, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments

First Impressions Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay was incredibly sad and no matter how fictional tears your heart. Impressions While Reading First, I thought Tatiana de Rosnay did a good job describing the backdrop of that time in history. She excelled in getting the point across of these horrid times. Through Julia, we get […]

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