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THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY Prepared by J.Tosic Six years ago, a Swedish journalist delivered three manuscripts to his publisher in Stockholm. These three supreme thrillers feature an unlikely pair of sleuths – Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist...
Kite Runner (2003) It's not that hard to understand why Khaled Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner , became such a huge best seller, based largely on word of mouth and its popularity among book clubs and reading groups. The novel reads like...
The 'Da Brown' Controversy by J.Tosic THE DA VINCI CODE (2003) There was an error even in the title: Leonardo’s surname was not Da Vinci. He was from Vinci, or of Vinci. As many critics have pointed out, calling it The Da Vinci Code is like saying...
TWILIGHT MANIA Prepared by J.Tosic TWILIGHT SAGA: Twilight ; New Moon ; Eclipse ; Breaking Dawn The following article borrowed from: Children’s Literature Review. Ed. Tom Burns. Vol. 142. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2009, p 1-2 Despite only starting...
THE MAGICAL WORLD OF HARRY POTTER Prepared by J. Tosic/P.Nouri Who could have predicted that one magical series could get kids around the world to put down their video games, shut off the TV and devour 800-page books? Books became cool again, with the...