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Vanessa rated The Moor's last sigh: 3 stars
The Moor's last sigh by Salman Rushdie
"The Moor evokes his family's often grotesque but compulsively moving fortunes and the lost world of possibilities embodied by India …
Vanessa rated The Hobbit: 4 stars
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit (1988, Houghton Mifflin)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A …
Vanessa rated Long day's journey into night: 3 stars
Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill
Depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating from alcoholism, drug addiction, and imminent death. Ageing actor, James …
Vanessa rated Monsoon Diary: 2 stars
Vanessa rated Zazie in the metro: 4 stars
Vanessa rated Cloud Atlas: 2 stars
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young …
Vanessa rated Haroun and the Sea of Stories: 5 stars
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, this classic children's novel inhabits the same …
Vanessa rated Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix: 4 stars
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
After the Dementors’ attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry knows he is about to become Voldemort’s next target.
Although many …
Vanessa rated Slaughterhouse-Five: 4 stars
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (A Dell book)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is …
Vanessa rated The Shipping News: 3 stars
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her …
Vanessa rated The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: 4 stars
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a …
Vanessa rated Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell: 5 stars
Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of …
