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{{Frontpage|author=Sakinu Ahronglong|title=Hunter School|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and true. But memory is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.|isbn=1999791282}}
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|author=Kat Ellis
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|summary=I was tempted to read ''Rodham'' by the success of Curtis Sittenfeld's ''American Wife''. That book wasn't marketed as being a portrait of Laura Bush, but the word ''thinly-veiled'' seemed to occur very regularly in reviews. How would ''Rodham'' compare? Unfortunately, there is a difference: relatively little was known about Laura Bush, which gave the book a freshness which the first third of ''Rodham'' lacks. We've all heard the stories, read the books - about Hillary and particularly about Bill. It's still an interesting concept, though: how would Hillary have fared if she hadn't subsumed her own ambitions into Bill's career, if she hadn't had to carry the burden of all Bill's baggage and if she hadn't left her own run at the presidency so late? Could she have done better without the Clinton surname?
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