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For the Love of an Island

Buried In Print2014-03-09T13:33:43-04:00

Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (Simon & Schuster, 2009) I was pleased to see that more than half of the Orange Prize shortlisted titles -- including this novel -- were still unread in my stacks. Reading the longlist was a crazy undertaking (see more talk of

For the Love of an IslandBuried In Print2014-03-09T13:33:43-04:00

Started slow, finished satisfied

Buried In Print2014-03-09T13:11:10-04:00

Sadie Jones' Small Wars Knopf, 2009 All three of 2010's Orange Prize nominees discussed here already (Lorrie Moore's At the Gate of the Stairs, M.J. Hyland's This is How, Rebecca Gowers' The Twisted Heart) were relatively quick reads for me. Sadie Jones' Small Wars? It took me a full week

Started slow, finished satisfiedBuried In Print2014-03-09T13:11:10-04:00

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