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Year of Night by Kate Beswick

It’s great to find a self-published title that has some real meat to it; I enjoyed this book, and having had a lifelong fascination with Russian history this portrayed an aspect of it that I had never really considered before. Year of Night is an intriguing story told by young Nadia, who is swept fromContinue reading “Year of Night by Kate Beswick”

Celebrating Freadom

Well, it’s Banned Books Week again in America. It’s a curious phenomenon – adults refusing to allow young people to read. But it happens all the time. And many of the books that adults try to ban are simultaneously judged to be classics – Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Lord of theContinue reading “Celebrating Freadom”