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Hurricane Gold

Notes: The most important from the first part. The book has three parts. I want to tell something about the main characters; James Bond, Precious, el Huracán, and Mrs. Glass, but not so much of the rest of them.

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Motherhood as Creation of Identity

Mothers’ effect on identity in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees and Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables”.

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Wishful Thinking of a Professional Kind

Contradictions in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day.

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The Law of Attraction

The new age notion, how it works, does it work? books about the theory and how convincing they were – a run down of the effectiveness of the two most popular teachers of the law and a synopsis of a third book that I felt offered an easier ingestion of the theory via the idea of positive thinking.

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Discovering the Secret

Remember that feeling when you came out of the cinema after watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind: then looking up into the sky; thinking to yourself: “It has to be true!” That is similar to the feeling you get when you read the book The Mistress of the Rock by Myron Edwards (55).

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Can a Book Change an Island?

A chance discovery 20 years ago could start a new phenomenon, as powerful in its interpretation as the Da Vinci Code.

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Secret Sins

On breaching norms of society, shown through two works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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The Fatal Flaw

The themes in Donna Tartt’s A Secret History.

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Secret of the Andes

The story took place in the Andes Mountains and in the holy city of Cuzco. Most of the story took place in a hidden valley high in the Andes Mountains.

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