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  • Berlitz Essential Spanish Phrases
    by Berlitz
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    by Berlitz
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    by Grisham, John
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    by Conrad, Joseph
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    by Khan Academy
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    by Khan Academy
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    by Khan Academy
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    by Khan Academy
  • The Iliad
    by Homer
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  Love across cultures, or in spite of it The author deftly portrays the narrator's inner and outer struggles while treating every character sympathetically. You feel for the narrator as she struggles to forge her own identity and also for her mother who struggles with a broken heart when the young man she has fallen in love with marries an American woman. Her heartbreak is compounded by seeing her daughter become Westernized. She is scandalized, yet ultimately acquiescent, knowing there is little she can do to stop it. Yet, is her resentment of her daughter's Americanization a projection of her resentment for the American woman who stole the heart of the young man she loved?
  
  The ending was rather ambiguous, leaving the impression that mother and daughter reconciled, yet also that some tensions remain unresolved. Perhaps that is deliberate, but I wonder if the author just didn't know how to properly end the story. I posted this on 02 June 2011
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  Eight installments is about enough This story was good, though not great. The central feature is a mystery that's more psychological than anything else. The ending will leave you a bit disappointed, but you will be made to think. I posted this on 25 May 2011
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Hell-Heaven - Love across cultures, or in spite of it

The author deftly portrays the narrator's inner and outer struggles while treating every character sympathetically. You feel for the narrator as she struggles to forge her own identity and also for her mother who struggles with a broken heart when the young man she has fallen in love with marries an American woman. Her heartbreak is compounded by seeing her daughter become Westernized. She is scandalized, yet ultimately acquiescent, knowing there is little she can do to stop it. Yet, is her resentment of her daughter's Americanization a projection of her resentment for the American woman who stole the heart of the young man she loved?

The ending was rather ambiguous, leaving the impression that mother and daughter reconciled, yet also that some tensions remain unresolved. Perhaps that is deliberate, but I wonder if the author just didn't know how to properly end the story.

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A Moment of Wrong Thinking - Eight installments is about enough

This story was good, though not great. The central feature is a mystery that's more psychological than anything else. The ending will leave you a bit disappointed, but you will be made to think.

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Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?

Mendacity

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Reader Challenges - Heads or Tails!

Raising their heads high so that they might catch more of the scent on the wind, the wolves twitched their tails expectantly. Prey was not too far off.

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