Book Reviews 2018
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The celebration of Book Day is coming again; On April 23, 2018, the birth of two of the world's and timeless exponents of the lyrics will be commemorated: Shakespeare and Cervantes.
With LITERARY REVIEWS 2018 I join the great party publishing in Smashwords the opinions that have given me the literary creations of twenty-four authors whose reading I have enjoyed a lot in the last year.
Aurea-Vicenta Gonzalez
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