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Best Books of 2022

December 29, 2022

best books

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, favorite books, historical fiction, memoir

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

November 7, 2022

missing

What better time to review a novel set in an unspecified time in America’s not-too-distant future than the day before an election? Celeste Ng’s novel, Our Missing Hearts, could either be the way ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, dystopia, literary

Little Fires Everywhere

September 11, 2017

fires

  In her outstanding debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng delicately exposed the family tragedy that can result from unrealistic expectations and the insecurity of trying to fit ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, literary, Penguin Press

Everything I Never Told You

June 25, 2014

favorite debuts of 2014

Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You is the story of the Lee family. They live in Ohio where the father James is a professor and wife Marilyn stays at home and raises Nathan, Lydia, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, literary, mystery, Penguin

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