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The Pink Suit

May 5, 2014

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The pink suit is both the description of the outfit worn by Jacqueline Kennedy when her husband was assassinated and the name of Nicole Mary Kelby’s new novel, The Pink Suit. The novel traces the history of the infamous suit, but Kelby goes beyond that to seamlessly weave a story behind the facts. Kate is a young Irish immigrant whose sewing is of such high quality that she ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1960s, book clubs, fashion, historical fiction, Little Brown and Company, New York City, women

Happy Birthday, Audrey Hepburn

May 4, 2014

A beautiful woman inside and out and a reader to boot! What's not to love? She would have been 85 today. In her own words: "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Reading Tagged: pop culture, quotes

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

May 2, 2014

It’s a testament to author Francine Prose’s prodigious talent that she can bring together a cross-dressing lesbian Nazi spy, a French baroness, and a Hungarian photographer, and not have it read like a bad joke. Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932   takes all of the characters listed, adds an American author, the photographer’s French girlfriend, and the Chameleon Club’s ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Harper, historical fiction, Paris, WWII

Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

April 30, 2014

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Claire and Dora Williamson are wealthy British women using their inheritance to travel the world in the early 1900s. Like many people of the time they are convinced that they could be in better health and like many women, with so little understanding of their own bodies, they believed that the slightest discomfort was indicative of a greater disorder. To that end they abandoned ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: 20th century, history, Pacific Northwest, true crime

Ruby: A Novel

April 28, 2014

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  Ephram Jennings has been in love with Ruby Bell since they met as children fishing in a lake near their hometown of Liberty, in east Texas. When Ruby returns to Liberty after escaping as a young woman to the high life in New York City, she has lost all the shine that made her a beauty and seems to have no control over her own body, spending nights howling and screaming, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Hogarth, magical realism, Southern life

Dewey’s Readathon Recap

April 27, 2014

I'd love to say I made it until 5am but I didn't. By 1:30am I was loopy enough to think that all I needed was fresh air and I should go out and take a walk- in the midst of urban Seattle. Thankfully, I reconsidered but even sitting in an uncomfortable desk chair and taking a brief nap didn't help so I headed to bed hoping to read some more before crashing. All told I made it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: books, Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon, event

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