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Wednesday Top 5- Best Suggested Books You Loved

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Hello, Fellow Book Worms! I have a lot of fun answering questions from the Goodreads group Top 5 Wednesday. It is a group created by Lainey from You Tube's GingerReadsLainey . Every Wednesday we answer a question and share our answers to the book community. You should check it out if you have not already. I was suggested many books in my life, and I have had a pretty good success rate in loving them. Here are 5 books or book series that I have loved. Best Suggested Books You Loved  1. Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian- My local book store, Hickory Stick Books, had this on display as a recommended book earlier last year. I made note of the book and later in the year I purchased it. It tells the heartbreaking story of one family's survival during the Armenian Genocide of the early Twentieth Century. Spanning decades across the globe, this is an epic story of a person's will to live, and the importance of family. I cannot recommend this enough...

Jackie Collins 1937-2015: A Classy Lady That Took Chances

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Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   As many of you may have learned another literary legend has left us. Jackie Collins passed away on September 9, 2015 from breast cancer at the age of 77. She was to me the best damn author around who brought me to exotic places, and introduced me to amazing characters, like Lucky Santangelo.   She was a wonderful woman who always gave her all to her readers. I cannot remember a time when I did not look forward to her novels, and gobbled them up as if they were dishes of rich caviar. She wrote strong women who grabbed the world by balls and never apologized for it. She could write Hollywood like no one else. And when it came to sex, she made Harold Robbins novels look tame. She wrote long-hand in legal pads, sweeping her pen across the paper like a Goddess creating a universe of good and evil.   She never wrote a character that I did not like, even her villains were so entertaining I could not wait to see what the...