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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

January 13, 2023

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Anyone else remember the good old days of Sidney Sheldon, Penny Vincenzi, Nelson DeMille, any of those authors who wrote massive novels that were so stuffed with plot you couldn’t stop reading? Maybe it’s just my reading taste, but most of the longer novels I read now are literary fiction or historical. It was fun then to fall face first into Age of Vice, a sweeping novel of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, India, social issues

The Light Pirate

January 2, 2023

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Frida’s baby isn’t due for another month, but as Wanda, a Cat 4 hurricane, bears down on the family’s home in a small Florida town she decides to make her entrance to the world. To mark the event Frida names her Wanda, hoping the storm’s power and strength will manifest in her daughter. What she can’t know is the full impact the hurricane will have on all their lives. The Light ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, climate fiction, coming-of-age, contemporary life, dystopia

Indian Horse: A Novel

December 20, 2022

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I love discovering new writers, the voices of people with stories I’ve never imagined. In the past two years I’ve been fortunate to read more from Native American authors like Tommy Orange and Oscar Hokeah, with their singular style. I can now add Richard Wagamese to this list. A Canadian writer and member of the Ojibway tribe, his novel, Indian Horse is a stunning portrayal of ... Read More...

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

December 13, 2022

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Gaming has never been my thing, aside from a brief flirtation with Centipede when I was working alone as a bartender and could play for free during the slow hours. For this reason, I had no interest in reading, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a novel about two gamers. The premise of nerdy guy meets nerdy girl and they create video games left me cold. Yes, ... Read More...

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The Atlas Paradox

December 7, 2022

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Last year I reviewed The Atlas Six, a cerebral, innovative fantasy novel set in the present day where 6 people with unique magical skills go through a yearlong initiation to join the Alexandrian Society, a secret group of medeians (those with magical skills). Only 5 would be invited to join. The year is up and the group is back in The Atlas Paradox. Now, they have another year ... Read More...

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All the Broken Places

December 5, 2022

What better way to start the last month of 2022 then with a 5 ⭐️ book. It’s John Boyne’s mesmerizing novel, All the Broken Places. Where some novels entertain by skating along the surface, this book plumbs the deepest depths of the human psyche, hunting the meaning of complicity during one of history’s darkest chapters. Gretel is a widow in her 90s living in a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, Holocaust, literary

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