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Davida Chazan

Davida is a published poet, amateur baker, average bowler and a chocolate gourmet (not an addict) who studied creative writing and journalism. She has been a professional resource development writer for the non-profit sector for the past 25 years, and has a passion for reading (despite her mild dyslexia) and writing book reviews, which she has been publishing online for over 15 years. She blogs at The Times of Israel and her personal blog drchazan.blogspot.com

Books reviewed by Davida Chazan

A Well-Behaved Woman (10/31/18)
The Lost for Words Bookshop (07/11/18)
Winter Sisters (04/04/18)
The Last Mrs. Parrish (11/01/17)
Forest Dark (09/20/17)
The Velveteen Daughter (07/12/17)
Beartown (06/21/17)
Feast of Sorrow (05/17/17)
Eveningland (04/19/17)
Girl in Disguise (03/08/17)
Moonglow (01/18/17)
To Capture What We Cannot Keep (01/04/17)
November Storm (11/02/16)
Ninety-Nine Stories of God (08/24/16)
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter (06/22/16)
A Place Called Winter (05/18/16)
The Photographer's Wife (03/02/16)
My Name Is Lucy Barton (01/06/16)
The Heart Goes Last (10/07/15)
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (09/16/15)
The Beautiful Bureaucrat (09/02/15)
The Sunken Cathedral (06/17/15)
A Reunion of Ghosts (04/01/15)
A Spool of Blue Thread (02/18/15)
The Brotherhood of Book Hunters (01/21/15)
The Betrayers (11/05/14)

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