Been Busy....

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Been so tied up at work lately I can hardly read anything, which explains the hardly-updated-book-review section. If you've read any good books recently and would love to share it with me, please feel free to drop me a note at hookedonbookz@gmail.com :) It can be a sentence or two...no problemo. I'm trying to finish 'The Gathering' by Anne Enright at the moment. Anyone read this book before?

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