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  • I just happen to believe that folks of all cultures and colors, and grad school types and immigrants and lexics (people who love to read) and fanboys and fangirls and love-story addicts and lit heads and homeboys and homegirls and history buffs and activists and family-epic lovers and nerds can all sit in the same room together and blab usefully.

    Junot Diaz discusses his first two books, Drown and the The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2010

  • A.C.: I think the retelling of Jefferson Hope's tale is Watson's doing — after all, Holmes later criticizes him for indulging in such a love-story, in the first chapter of The Sign of Four ..

    A three pipe problem Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • It is a love-story which never loses sight of the problems of social and economic adjustment and the chief characters are among the best Mr. London has ever drawn.

    JACK LONDON AND HIS WORK 2010

  • Part Gothic love-story, part urban drama, The Gargoyle brilliantly (and often gruesomely) delivers a fascinating blend of storytelling and character study that results in a sometimes sentimental, sometimes seedy epic that truly epitomizes the term, ‘page turner.’

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Part Gothic love-story, part urban drama, The Gargoyle brilliantly (and often gruesomely) delivers a fascinating blend of storytelling and character study that results in a sometimes sentimental, sometimes seedy epic that truly epitomizes the term, ‘page turner.’

    A Love Story, A Recommendation, A Give-Away 2008

  • March 5, 2008 at 11: 30 am its the real love-story for a new recover-novelle “horse from greece”! troja and other great objekts in our hearts. lovely and holly eastern all dreamers!!!! mad-rab …

    Feb 14 « The Museum Of Modern Fiction 2008

  • Bennett's writing is a little overwrought at times, but this is at heart a love-story so a little overwriting is easy to forgive.

    Portrait of an Unknown Woman: Summary and book reviews of Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett. 2007

  • I suppose there was a Hopkins/Foster love-story subtext there.

    6-word love stories. Ann Althouse 2009

  • On the surface this is a love-story that belongs to the genre of the ancient erotic novel (Pervo, Wills, Hezser): A heroine and a hero fall in love at first sight, marry after some inner struggles, are unfortunately separated, have to travel through all the Mediterranean world, and finally find each other through the help of a God (other literary examples are Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca, and Chariton, Callirhoe).

    Asenath: Bible. 2009

  • The sober tone and odd love-story between robots has prompted concerns that the "Wall-E" box office may not compensate for Disney's other big summer release, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," whose $259 million 131 million pound box office take has lagged forecasts so far.

    Another June Linkfest Steve Hulett 2008

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