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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
Patience, please (6/7/2010)
When I first started reading this book I thought I wouldn't be able to finish it. The segments about the Blind Assassin and the news clips seemed to interrupt the story, and I couldn't put them together with the rest of the novel. Thank goodness I didn't stop there. The twomore
The Last Time They Met
by Anita Shreve
Fresh out of ideas (4/17/2010)
Shreeve admits that she wrote the early years first. The book seems to have two separate stories. Oh yeah, I get it. She wants to talk about a life unlived and the power of unresolved guilt. But it seemed to me that the two stories never really meshed. I didn't get howmore
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