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No one writes a historical saga quite like Ken Follett. Is it entirely historically accurate? Probably not. Is it fine literature? No. Did it keep me entertained for 30 hours? It did! For the most part. There was a fair amount of political stuff at the end that I found myself tuning out on, but I’m always interested in the stories of the people. I
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“And look how you got here. ‘All rising to great places is by a winding stair.’ Have you ever heard that?” Referring to Amber’s journey as a winding stair is a bit of an understatement. This nearly 1000 page book covers approximately 10 years of her life, and yet I feel like it wasn’t enough. Through her multiple marriages, multiple children, and multiple sexual partners,
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The Alice Network is a dual-timeline story about two women. In 1947 we have Charlie, an American college girl who is visiting Europe with her socialite mother in order to get a secret abortion. Except Charlie has other plans. Her French cousin Rose disappeared during World War II, and Charlie is determined to find out what happened to her. All she has to go on
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It’s been many years since I read the 5th book in this series, which I remember struggling with, so I’d forgotten that Diana Gabaldon is really great at what she does. This part of the series covers the years right before the Revolutionary War, so you have politics mixed in with the art of living in the mountains of North Carolina in the late 1700s.
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