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Book Review: Fighting Monsters brings a reality to war

Book Review: Fighting Monsters brings a reality to war

Bill Ectric King Mar 23, 2019

Jim Matthews, author of Fighting Monsters, says most people first heard about the Kurdish YPG fighters when “Images of photogenic, enigmatic young women in combat gear reverberated around the world.”...

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up where the Deathly Hallows left off. Photo by Cassidy Alexander

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: ‘A story I will gladly reread’

Brittany Moore Aug 3, 2016

Spinnaker previously published a negative review about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The following review offers a different perspective of the book. For nine years I have been waiting alongside...

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‘Go Set a Watchman': The so-so draft with a Pulitzer Prize backstory

‘Go Set a Watchman’: The so-so draft with a Pulitzer Prize backstory

Shannon Pulusan Jul 22, 2015
In the "new to us" semi-sequel, readers meet a grown-up Jean "Scout" Louise and gain more insight into the pro-segregation opinions of some of the original "To Kill a Mockingbird" characters.
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Colorless Tsukuru’s strengths lie in its exploration of friendship, maturity and forgiveness.
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Book Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Shannon Pulusan Feb 14, 2015
Author Haruki Murakami ventures away from the ambiguity and unsettling wonder of his idiosyncratic magical realism fiction with his novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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Review: ‘Gone Girl’ leaves a lasting impression

Sarah Ricevuto Oct 22, 2014
"Gone Girl," which was released released as a film on Oct. 3, has been on the New York Times Best Sellers fiction book list for 98 weeks. Two reporters give side-by-side reviews on both the novel and film versions of this notorious thriller story.
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Lit Kick: Far from a Friskies commercial, ‘Kitty’ remains a mystery

Spinnaker Mar 9, 2010
UNF prof releases a grimey, Chicago-set mystery novel.
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Study abroad fair offers different kinds of opportunities for students

Spinnaker Sep 24, 2009

College is touted as a time to expand oneself and learn to empathize with other cultures; there was information and opportunity abound looking to fill these desires at the Sept. 22 Study Abroad Fair. There...

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