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Favorite authorsCharlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Gabriel García Márquez, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, Pablo Neruda, Michael Ondaatje, Virginia Woolf (Shared favorites)

About meI am a librarian in New Jersey. I like books, tea, cats, and knitting. With the previous description you'd think I'm over 70, but I'm actually under 30... go figure.

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Currently readingI Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Signet) by Joanne Greenberg
I, Elizabeth: A Novel by Rosalind Miles

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Noticed you liked I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a disturbed young girl's mental illness and also a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

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Chris

posted by cmtusa at 1:25 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2009

Hi Camille,

Thanks for your response to my comment. Michael Ondaatje is of course an immensely skilled writer, and Anil's Ghost very accurately depicts the atmosphere of terror which prevailed in Sri Lanka in the late eighties.

Sena

posted by senafernando at 10:38 am (EST) on Jul 22, 2008

Hi,

In your review of "Love Marriage" by Ganeshananthan, you state that you prefer Ondaatje's account of Sri Lanka's civil war. In fact, "Anil's Ghost" by Ondaatje deals with a different civil war, which was the Marxist uprising in 1988-1989. Ganeshananthan refers to the much more protracted and deadly civil war between the Sinhalese central government and the Tamils in the North who are fighting for independence. This war has been going on since 1983, and has claimed at least 70,000 lives.

Best regards,
Sena

posted by senafernando at 11:28 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2008

It's ok, I know the March books are still trickling in. Give another week or two. It's amazing sometimes how long they can take to come!

Sorry about the delay.

Best,
Abby

posted by ablachly at 11:24 am (EST) on Apr 18, 2008

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