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Beatrice Gormley
Goodreads Author
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in Glendale, CA, The United States
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Alison Lurie; C.S. Lewis, Robert A. Heinlein, E. Nesbit
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September 2009
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Young Pioneer
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Adara
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2002
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Mail-Order Wings
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1981
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C.S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller
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1997
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Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
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2000
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Louisa May Alcott: Young Novelist
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2008
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Salome
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2007
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Back to the Titanic (Travelers Through Time, #1)
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1994
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Barack Obama: Our 44th President
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2008
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Poisoned Honey: A Story of Mary Magdalene
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2001
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Beatrice Gormley said:
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This novel is so dense and tricky that I couldn't finish it before the book was due back at the library. To be continued . . .
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Beatrice Gormley said:
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A disappointment. I loved Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, but We Solve Murders reads like a feeble imitation of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mysteries. The characters seem trite or implausible, and I don't care very much what happens to them.
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| This novel is so dense and tricky that I couldn't finish it before the book was due back at the library. To be continued . . . ...more | |
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| A good read! Not so much about the planet Mars itself, but more about the evolution of astronomical discoveries around the turn of the nineteenth century. And the extraordinary lengths that Percival Lowell, an educated, wealthy, personable amateur as ...more | |
"The beginning of this short novel did not engage me. It made me uncomfortable as a too-close, too-real depiction of college friendships and college life. It felt like reading the diary of a 21 year old ,really. Maybe my own from that time! I admired "
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| Again, a high-quality escape read from T. Kingfisher. A page-turner quest. Quirky but not too cute, with a plucky heroine and a great cast of sidekicks. I like the way T.K. thinks! | |
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This short novel about 6 astronauts in the international space station is more like a long lyrical poem about our Earth. That sounds boring, but actually I was mesmerized, just as the astronauts in Orbital are mesmerized by their privileged view of t ...more |
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| A disappointment. I loved Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, but We Solve Murders reads like a feeble imitation of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mysteries. The characters seem trite or implausible, and I don't care very much what happens to them. ...more | |
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