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2009

2009 CE.


2009 is the publication year for the editions below.

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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

Ying Chang Compestine
21st Century American-Chinese Horror

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

It was my lovely spouse who actually recommended this book. She’s made quite few of Compestine’s recipes and enjoyed them almost as much as I know she enjoyed the stories. This is a review of Ying Chang Compestine’s A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts.

October 12, 2020February 7, 2021 by S. Hargrave — Comment on A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo
Romantic Era French Literature

Notre-Dame de Paris

Due to how many adaptations it has had and how prominent it is in the canon of classic literature, I thought it would be a staple of used bookstores or the bigger new bookstores. Well, it isn’t. This is a review of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris or The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

June 15, 2020April 24, 2021 by S. Hargrave — Comment on Notre-Dame de Paris
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