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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

Dewey’s Readathon: Updates

April 26, 2014

  We're entering hour 5 now and I'm making good time on my first book Troika by Adam Pelzman. I'm on page 171 out of 274 so hoping I'll finish within the next hour or two. I'm also trying to make time to visit all the great blogs who are participating. One of my favorites is River City Reading- where she gets the energy I'll never know but she's reading, tweeting, ... Read More...

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Dewey’s Readathon: Introducing the Books

April 26, 2014

dewey's readathon

Twice a year the book blog world stops its reading for, well...reading. But not just reading, nothing but READING for 24 hours. It's Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon, a time when chores go undone, family is ignored, and bad TV goes unwatched. Instead book lovers find different spaces to curl up in and read as many books as are physically possible. In theory, I am thrilled for the ... Read More...

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

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