| Choose the design that fits your site | On the one hand, it's highly original; totally unlike anything I've ever read |
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| I will be reading light fiction until the first Sunday of Advent, when I start Dear Church A Lutheran book | So much magical realism, blocks of italic text, so much surrealism my friends lovingly point out my literalness from time to time |
| Ever wondered about the city of Mecca and what secrets it keeps or the lives of the people? I really wond I was very excited to read the book as it was a joint winner of the Int Prize of Arabic Fiction IPAF 2011 | So I'll just stick to what I could grasp |
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| The Dove's Necklace contains some beautiful and moving lines that are eminently quotable, especially in the second part of the book | Definitely an important book, not a "fluff piece" |
Three rather than four stars is due to me completely and literally losing the plot during Part Two of the book.
| He calls the agent that often helps couples get together the "Helpful Brother," and then explains with amused self-awareness that the Helpful Brother is usually an old woman, because she has loved in her lifetime in many different ways and is particularly attuned to sensing love between younger people, and also because she doesn't have much going on | Highly imaginative, and brilliantly written |
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| I did think that the book was too long | The street slowly uncovers her mysteries and peers into the lives of other inhabitants |