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Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
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A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Whisper Network
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Invisible Man
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The Mystery at Lilac Inn
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
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70/512 pages
Leading Change
Peanuts Classics
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66 %
The Bungalow Mystery
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192/192 pages
The Bungalow Mystery #3
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The Mystery at Lilac Inn
North and South
I had relatively low expectations for this book, as I'd attempted to watch the BBC special before and found it pretty dull. But the the book itself (actually the audiobook) was a very different experience. While I found myself feeling a bit impatient with the heroine and perhaps sympathising a bit more with Mrs. Thornton than the author probably intended, the characters and their stories were so finely drawn that I fell right into this book. I was continuously impatient to know what would happen next, even though the outcome of the story (typical romance in its plot) was a given. Juliet Stevenson gives an excellent performance in reading the story. Highly recommend.