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📖 The Nightingale
The Nightingale, written by Kristin Hannah, tells the story of two French sisters during World War II, and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France. ★★★★★
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📖 East of Eden
East of Eden was my first John Steinbeck novel. Living in Santa Cruz, I'd heard of Steinback, who lived in the area, but he wasn't the same household name for as he is in American literature. ★★★★☆
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📖 Killing Floor
Killing Floor is the debut novel of the Jack Reacher series, introducing ex-military police major Jack Reacher ★★★☆☆
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📖 Die Trying
Die Trying is the second novel in Lee Child' s Jack Reacher series. Jack is being a gentleman helping a young woman with an injured leg, Holly, when they are captured and tossed in a van. ★★★☆☆
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📖 Tripwire
Tripwire is a classic Jack Reacher story. This 3rd book in the series follows the usual plot line of Jack being pulled into some injustice despite minding his own business. ★★★☆☆
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📖 A Wrinkle In Time
★★★★☆ A quirky mix of science, fantasy and spiritual battle between good and evil across multiple dimensions.
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📖 Ready Player One
★★★☆☆ Ready Player One romanticizes '80 pop culture and computer gaming (of all decades).
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📖 The Blind Assassin
★★★☆☆ Part pulp fiction, part who-done-it mystery and part family drama, The Blind Assassin makes for an eclectic mix of styles. And yet, all these story lines are interconnected.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
★★★★☆ Count Alexander Rostov is a Russian aristocrat who is confined to grand hotel Metropol in Moscow across from the Kremlin in a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922. A Gentleman in Moscow chronicles Alexander's decades long house arrest in the hotel.
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📖 The Circle
★★☆☆☆ The Circle holds up a mirror and tries to show that not everything that glitters in the tech world is gold.
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📖 All The Light We Cannot See
★★★★★ To me, All The Lights We Cannot See captured what World War II must have been like to those living through it very well. Both my parents were born in World War II in the Netherlands. My father at the start of the war (for the Netherlands) in 1940 and my mother at the end of the war in 1944.
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📖 Ender's Game
★★★★☆ I first read Ender's Game in college in the late 80's. The story stuck with me ever since. Primarily due to the combination of Ender's powerlessness and his power.