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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

Catherine — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:13:25 +0000

J. Ryan Stradal’s new novel, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, employs his familiar template of families, food and drink, but once again he uses it to create a fresh canvas for two families in northern Minnesota. Each runs a restaurant, but the similarities stop there. Betty and Floyd run the Lakeside, a traditional […]

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The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Catherine — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:21:57 +0000

I absolutely loved J. Ryan Stradal’s debut novel, Kitchens of the Great Midwest so was nervous about his second novel. Sophomore efforts can be notoriously underwhelming. Happily, this was not the case with The Lager Queen of Minnesota. The story is about two sisters, Edith and Helen, and the wildly different paths their lives take […]

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July Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 07:11:05 +0000

First of all, isn’t that photo dreamy? I could lie there all day reading. Of course, that would mean I had a month’s worth of books I couldn’t put down, which, based on my Friday post, was not the case. I read 14 books in July, but only because three of them were DNFs. […]

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