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A stirring tribute to the power of storytelling takes place on a remote New Guinea island and combines Dickens and life in wartime. Mister Pip is a haunting New Zealand book by Lloyd Jones that's being pipped (er, sorry) to win the prestigious Booker Prize next month. It's a brief but lingering read, a kind of combination of Dead Poets Society and Hotel Rwanda that pays homage to the mysterious ...

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Japanese for Busy People Kana Workbook by the Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (Blogcritics.org)
Learn your Japanese alphabet fast! The Japanese for Busy People series is a well respected standard - and the name really says it all. "Of course! I'm a busy person! I want to learn Japanese! Why wouldn't this be for me?"I received my copy of the Kana Workbook while struggling through an elementary Japanese class. I was using a different series of texts, and...

Book Review: Above the Starry Frame by Helen Townsend (Blogcritics.org)
The real story is in Townsend's imagining. The reading public seems to have a kind of penchant for what really happened. Just look at the controversy surrounding faked true stories such as JT Leroys Sarah or James Freys A Million Little Pieces. Does it really matter whether a story actually took place or does it matter more that it touches something true in...

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