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REVIEW:  Children of Liberty by Paullina Simons

REVIEW: Children of Liberty by Paullina Simons

Dear Ms. Simons: When I saw this book available online, I snapped it up without a second thought. I am a huge fan of The Bronze Horseman and its two sequels, and I also enjoyed The Girl in Times Square. I’ve avoided some of your other, earlier books because online reviews have indicated that they(…)

REVIEW:  Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

REVIEW: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

I became a George Eliot fangirl after reading and loving Middlemarch a few years ago. I had previously only read Silas Marner by Eliot, in high school English, and while I had kind of liked parts of it, I recalled it as a bit of a slog (but then, a lot of 19th century fiction(…)