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|title=The List of my Desires
|author=Gregoire Delacourt
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jocelyne is in her forties, married to Jo, and mother to one stillborn little girl and two twenty-something children who have grown distant from her with time. She owns a haberdashery shop in the small town where she lives, and she's writing an online blog which is growing in popularity. Although there have been bumps in the past, with her violent husband struggling with their little girl's death, the early death of her mother and her father's debilitating stroke her life is now reasonably stable and at the start of the story she seems, on the surface, to be happy although one suspects that beneath the veneer there are unresolved issues for Jocelyne.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297868357</amazonuk>
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|summary=He may now be 81, but there are no signs that Tom Wolfe is mellowing. Is his latest ''Back to Blood'' another magnificent addition to the Wolfe hall or is he merely bringing up the bodies? Well for me, it's a little of both. The book's great strength and also its main weakness are in the similarities between this Miami-set story of racial and cultural tension and his New York-set classic [[The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe|The Bonfire of the Vanities]]. There are familiar themes: newspapers, racial tension, the super-rich behaving disgracefully and lost in their own ego-mania, and a lively writing style shot through with angry humour, all of which bring to mind ''The Bonfire of the Vanities''. As there, he takes several characters from different worlds whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. But while taking those ingredients might seem a very welcome thing, the end result suffers in comparison.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578530</amazonuk>
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