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Here I will post reviews of books I have just finished reading and news items and articles of interest. At the urging of a number of friends, I decided to start a blog. I’ve been a book reviewer for a number of years and have posted hundreds of reviews on both Goodreads and LibraryThing. My focus is contemporary literary fiction (especially Canadian fiction) and mysteries. Schatje’s Shelves is my reading blog devoted primarily to reviews of the books I acquire for my library - a library which has 8,050+ books (print, ebooks, audiobooks) and keeps growing. Now that I'm retired, I have so much more time to read (and to enjoy the library my husband made for me). Sylvie “doesn’t often speak about her life in the Netherlands.” Obviously, the title refers to more than justįor 30 years, I was a high school English teacher/teacher-librarian. The real talent in the family’” whose “beauty glowed from within, whereas I wasĬonvinced herself that Sylvie lived “a glamorous life in Europe” even though Sylvie as “’So talented, so amazing’”, Sylvie describes Amy as “’the one with And me, I am only a shadow, an afterthought, One, but in our family, both of those qualities belong to my sister. Each suffers from low self-esteem and thinks the other sibling isĬomments, “Often there’s a dichotomy between the beautiful sister and the smart We are the ultimate unreliable narrators.” These statements prove to be true when it comesĬloseness, they don’t really know each other.

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