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Best Books of 2022

Catherine — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:12:15 +0000

I’m going to cut to the chase: it was a challenging year for my reading. Not due to a lack of options, I just lost my reading mojo for a while. However, there were 8 books that broke through my broken brain and gave me all the pleasure I look for in my reading. […]

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Catherine — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:30:29 +0000

Barbara Kingsolver is back with Demon Copperhead, a serpentine tour-de-force set in the southern Appalachian Mountains. A modern-day David Copperfield, the novel follows Damon Fields from his ignominious birth in a trailer to a single, teenage mother doped out of her mind, all the way through his teens. It’s not a journey for the faint […]

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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Catherine — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:20:32 +0000

Willa and her husband Iano are stuck in a situation that strikes fear in the heart of anyone in midlife—she’s newly unemployed and the college where he had tenure closed and he’s been forced to take an entry-level at a small school in Philadelphia. His father is a morbidly obese, deaf, virulent racist who […]

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