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August Reading Wrap-Up

September 2, 2019

august

What a month! I hope you all had a more vacation-y time in August than I did. The month wasn’t bad, it was just a time of adjustment—Jed moved to Ann Arbor for his job, I stayed here and began the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: coming-of-age, friendship, literary, mini-reviews, television

Summer House with Swimming Pool

July 23, 2014

summer house

  Author Herman Koch has created the doctor we’re all afraid of in his new novel, Summer House with Swimming Pool. Not a horrific needle wielding monster but something worse: the one who pretends to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: American life, book clubs, family, Hogarth, literary, mystery

The Dinner: A Novel

February 11, 2013

The Dinner

Dinner out at a nice restaurant. The company is iffy- your boorish brother who, nonetheless, is the frontrunner for prime minister, and his wife. Who he is to the public is not who he is as your ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Hogarth, mystery, suspense

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