Jessica Schneider is the Austin Cultural Events Examiner for Examiner.com. She writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer and has worked as the book editor of Monsters & Critics as well as being a co-founder of www.Cosmoetica.com
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Book Review: The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
For a book that is celebrating the wild, it is ironic that these essays seem to be bundled up in cages.
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Book Review: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
There really is only one Anne Shirley, and after reading this book, I am certain you’ll agree.
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Book Review: Ruthless - A Tell-All Book by Keifer Bonvillain
It is impossible to take this anti-Oprah book seriously, and it only succeeds in backfiring, giving Winfrey fans more ammo in her defense.
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Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go is a very quiet novel in the sense that it works not only as a dystopian novel but also as a presentation of a character.
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Book Review: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis
A cerebral examination of the mind, body, faith, reason, intellect, and the imagination.
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Book Review: Not My Turn to Die - Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia by Savo Heleta
An engrossing first-hand historical account of a violent time that many have overlooked.
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Book Review: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi
This book discusses many cases of individuals who, either due to their madness, badness, or sadness, have been a little emotionally off course.
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Book Review: The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Analyzing the human as an animal, from the view of a zoologist, rather than the more common means of a psychologist or sociologist.
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