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Davida Chazan's book reviews for mostly adult, literary, contemporary, historical, and women's fiction (with some non-fiction and literary musings thrown in for good measure).

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Sunday, August 31, 2014

The Consequences of a Hand Job (Not that kind...)

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Book Review for "The Fourth Hand" by John Irving

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Labels: 2001, adult, Book Review, contemporary, fiction, humor, John Irving, literary, novel, surgery, television, widow

Saturday, August 30, 2014

What is a "Portrait of America?"

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Book Review for "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen

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Labels: 2010, adult, America, Book Review, contemporary, families, family, fiction, historical, literary, love, marriage, novels, politics, relationships, writers

Friday, August 29, 2014

No bones about it; this is a lovely book!

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Book Review for "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold

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Labels: 2002, adult, afterlife, America, Book Review, children, classic, contemporary, death, earth, female protagonists, female writers, fiction, heaven, literary, murder, mystery, novel, rape, teenager

Friday, August 22, 2014

Very Carefully, Apparently

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Book Review for "How to Talk to a Widower" by Jonathan Tropper

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Labels: 2007, accident, adult, America, Book Review, comedy, contemporary, death, fiction, literary, love, marriage, novel, recovery, widower, writers

Monday, August 18, 2014

Flavored for Deception

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Book Review for "Sweetness #9: A Novel" by Stephen Eirik Clark

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Labels: 2014, addiction, adult, America, Book Review, contemporary, culinary, fiction, food, historical, literary, marketing, medicine, mystery, NetGalley, WWII

Saturday, August 16, 2014

That Which Emerges from Her Cocoons

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Book Review for "The Behaviour Of Moths" (aka "The Sister") by Poppy Adams

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Labels: 2008, adult, Asperger's, Book Review, contemporary, female protagonists, female writers, fiction, literary, mystery, novel, relationships, sisters

Friday, August 15, 2014

Rapture, Ecstasy, and Bliss from Your Kitchen

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Cookbook Review for "How to Be a Domestic Goddess" by Nigella Lawson

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Labels: 1998, baking, Book Review, cakes, cookbook, cooking, food, Nigella Lawson, non-fiction

Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Sparkle and its Tarnish

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Book Review for "The Objects of Her Affection" by Sonya Cobb

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Labels: 2014, adult, antiques, Book Review, contemporary, crime, female protagonists, female writers, fiction, literary, NetGalley, novels, women

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Beneath the Black Hats and the Wigs

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Book Review for "Invisible City" by Julia Dahl

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Labels: 2014, adult, America, Book Review, contemporary, crime, death, deception, faith, families, female protagonists, female writers, fiction, literary, murder, mystery, NetGalley, New York, ultra-orthodox

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Steaming Open a Family's Pandora's Box

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Book Review for "Instructions for a Heatwave" by Maggie O'Farrell

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Labels: 2013, adult, Book Review, characters, coming-of-age, contemporary, deception, England, families, family, female writers, fiction, historical, Ireland, mystery, novels, relationships, secret, women

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Early 20th century American Romeo and Juliette

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Book Review for "Marching to Zion" by Mary Glickman

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Labels: 2013, adult, African-American, America, Book Review, death, families, female writers, fiction, historical, Jewish, migrants, Slavery, widower

Get Roped into this Story

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Book Review for "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx

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Labels: 1993, adult, America, Book Review, Canada, characters, classic, coming-of-age, contemporary, families, female writers, fiction, literary, Newfoundland, novel, relationships, writing

Friday, August 8, 2014

Get Kissed by Kate and her Stories!

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Book Review for "Me: Stories of My Life" by Katharine Hepburn

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Labels: 1991, acting, autobiography, Book Review, love, memoir, movies, non-fiction, relationships, stories, theater

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

A Fictional Dismantling of the British Royal Family

Book Review for "The Queen and I" by Sue Townsend

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Labels: 1992, Book Review, comedy, England, female writers, fiction, novel, Parliament, Queen Elizabeth II, royal family, royalty, young adult

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

A Berry Nice Book!

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Book Review for "Two Caravans" (aka "Strawberry Fields") by Marina Lewycka

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Labels: 2007, adult, Book Review, contemporary, dogs, England, female writers, fiction, humor, literary, migrant workers, migrants, novels, relationships, women

Monday, August 4, 2014

John Irving's Masterpiece

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Book Review for "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving

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Labels: 1989, accident, adult, Book Review, characters, classic, coming-of-age, contemporary, death, disabilities, fiction, friendship, humor, learning disabilities, literary, novels, review

Sunday, August 3, 2014

The Painted Designs of Yemenite Jewish Women

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Book Review for "Henna House" by Nomi Eve

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Labels: 2014, adult, Book Review, coming-of-age, death, deception, families, female protagonists, female writers, fiction, historical, Holocaust, Jewish, literary, novels, relationships, secret, women

Saturday, August 2, 2014

A Website that Became a Book

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Book Review for "Four Word Film Reviews - The Book" by Benj Clews and Michael Onesi (et.al.)

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Labels: adult, Book Review, collection, films, four words, fwfr.com, movies, non-fiction, print books, reviews, short, website

Friday, August 1, 2014

An Occupied Island and Unusual Occupations

Book Review for "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

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Labels: 2008, adult, Book Review, characters, deception, epistolary, female protagonists, fiction, historical, humor, literary, memoir, novel, relationships, secret, WWII

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