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30 Days Book Meme: Day Fifteen
Day Fifteen: Favourite male character
Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
For most readers, Mockingbird is about racism and injustice, and the key scene is the trial of Tom Robinson. In my case, the novel is
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30 Days Book Meme: Day Twelve
Day Twelve: A book you used to love, but don't anymore
Once again I'm going to sneak a series in: The Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout
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30 Days Book Meme: Day Nine
Day nine: A book you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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30 Days Book Meme: Day Eight
Day eight: Most overrated book
Oh, wow! Decisions, decisions. I was going to go with the topical Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks - Blackadder Goes Forth is more evocative of the First World War - but a comment regarding my last meme entry on Austen sequels has decided me.
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
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30 Days Book Meme: Day Seven
Day seven: Most underrated book
I can do 'overrated' better than 'underrated'. There are multiple, oh so many overrated books out there! But it's a series that comes to mind, rather than an individual book, as my underrated candidate:
The Mr and Mrs Darcy Mysteries by Carrie Bebris
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30 Days Book Meme: Day Six
Day six: A book that makes you sad
Guh. Struggled with this. All kinds of random books make me sad. There's the obvious: Marley and Me by John Grogan. The 'wrong mood, wrong book': The Shellseekers by Rosamund Pilcher (seriously, I was crying at the end, and not because I was reading a family saga novel a good fifteen years before middle-age).
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