Monday, August 14, 2023

Review of Erin Morgenstern's "Starless Sea"

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What does one say after reading a story about all stories? When one gets every bit, detail and reference (even if only on the subconscious l...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Review of Paulo Coelho's "The Manual of the Warrior of Light"

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This book is brilliant!!!  I got it as a gift many years ago, but every time I picked it up to read - it just wouldn't want to be r...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Review of Sos Sargsyan's "Pup"

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Author's language is beautiful and full; vocabulary vast, but neither forced nor pompous. Long forgotten words sneaked onto his pages ...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Review of Amélie Nothomb's "Fear and Trembling"

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When an author is capable of describing a culture with such precision, humor, language and empathy... all the reader is left to do is adm...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Review of H.L.Oldie's "Puppeteer"

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The authors have created a very intricate and detailed world, which earns them points, of course. But to dump it all from the get-go un...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Review of Dina Rubina's "White Dove of Cordova"

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I cannot even explain or describe how much I like Rubina’s language, her style, her metaphors and the way she plays with words… Ho...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Review of Dina Rubina's "Sunny Side of the Street"

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This ode, this declaration of love, this serenade to the town of her childhood, Tashkent, is masterfully written. Rubina weaves in diffe...