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Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

Saturday, 8 July 2017
Girl and Book
Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella 400 pages, Fiction from Dell Over the past few days, I finished re-reading Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella more than ten years after it was published. I was able to purchase a paperback copy from PowerBooks in Metro Manila back in 2006, read it and subsequently forgot about it. I only saw the book again in a recent visit to one of the Borders outlets in Muscat. Can...
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Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto

Saturday, 1 July 2017
Organized Madness
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto 180 pages, Fiction from Pocket Books “I dropped a bowl and broke it, which upset me so much that I burst into tears. Then I decided to sit down and read a comic, which made laugh hysterically. I was a total mess.” Aren’t we all? The words were taken from the yuppie-angst narrative of Chikako, the lead character in “Blood and Water,” one of the six short stories which made up the collection entitled Lizard,...
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The Words Escape

Saturday, 1 July 2017
Book Leaves
A very warm welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Wordscapism, Shirley Siaton-Parabia‘s features weblog on literary works such as books, graphic novels and various other pieces. I have long since wanted a blog where I can post and archive my reviews and opinions on the writings I have read and, finally, I officially launched the website on 1st July 2017. The domain name was purchased last year on the 5th of March; a little more than a month later, I...
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