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*****= An all-time favorite
****  = Outstanding
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 Sonderbooks #64

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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
In this site, you can find good books for yourself or for friends.
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Happy reading!

October 9, 2003

Nonfiction

***The Best American Travel Writing 2002 edited by Frances Mayes.  Series editor, Jason Wilson

Fiction

*****The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
***Fatima's Good Fortune, by Joanne and Gerry Dryansky
***Snobbery With Violence, by Marion Chesney

Young Adult Fiction

***The Exiles in Love, by Hilary McKay

Children's Nonfiction

***C D C? by William Steig
***Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume Two, by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer

Children's Fiction

***Rosy Cole's Worst Ever, Best Yet Tour of New York City, by Sheila Greenwald

Old Favorite

(Fiction): *****The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis

Picture Book Pick

***The Witch's Children, by Ursula Jones.  Illustrated by Russell Ayto
 

Quotation of the Week

“There are only two kinds of people in the end:
those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’
and those to whom God says at the end, ‘Thy will be done.’”
--C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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