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‘The Passage’ by Justin Cronin: Is It the Next Twilight?
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Donna Freitas
So unless you’ve been living under a rock you know that indeed, the bookshelves are still glutted with paranormal romances galore, and yes, the vampire trend still seems to be bearing itself out despite years of “Twilight” knockoffs (as I’ve come to call them) crowding the display tables. Is there no end in sight? Alas,…
Some Inspirational Reading for Summer
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Douglas Howe
Are you a reader? Does summer offer that awesome chance to get alone with a book and get lost somewhere near the beach, or at a coffee house, or just in that comfy couch in the living room? If you’re a reader there sure will be a lot to read this summer, but I find…
‘This Gorgeous Game’ Releases
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dross
Since Idol Chatter blogger Donna Freitas would never toot her own horn and promote her brand new young adult novel “This Gorgeous Game” here, I’m going to do it for her! “This Gorgeous Game” is about a teenage girl’s experience being stalked by a Catholic priest, whom she had grown to trust as a writing…
Silence is All the Rage in a Noisy Culture
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Donna Freitas
A couple of years back I reviewed “Into Great Silence” for Idol Chatter, a several hour film that chronicles the lives of Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse in the French Alps. These monks take a vow of silence and so, well, the film about their lives was almost entirely silent in and of itself. To…
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