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2022 Underrated Gems

Catherine — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:43:15 +0000

Nothing like waiting until the last week of the year to put out best-of lists. Today I want to share five gems that I adored that didn’t get as much love and attention as they deserve. Hopefully, you got gift cards and pick up at least one of these remarkable novels. Title links go […]

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All the Broken Places

Catherine — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:36:18 +0000

What better way to start the last month of 2022 then with a 5 ⭐️ book. It’s John Boyne’s mesmerizing novel, All the Broken Places. Where some novels entertain by skating along the surface, this book plumbs the deepest depths of the human psyche, hunting the meaning of complicity during one of history’s darkest chapters. […]

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Dark Fiction: A Ladder to the Sky

Catherine — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 08:59:29 +0000

So far this week I’ve reviewed two very dark, but outstanding novels. It’s time to wrap up the week and I’m back with a surprising (to me) author: John Boyne. His last novel, The Heart’s Invisible Furies was one of my favorites from last year so it’s with a heavy heart I say that I […]

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Catherine — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:42:57 +0000

Bruno is nine years old and lives with his parents and his annoying sister in Berlin. His father is a very important man in the German army and after his boss, the Fury comes to visit, Bruno and his family have to leave Berlin and move to a new home. Bruno is understandably upset—their […]

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The Heart’s Invisible Furies

Catherine — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:42:13 +0000

Cyril Avery’s birth was not a propitious one. He came into the world onto the floor of a tiny apartment, next to the unconscious body of his mother’s roommate, with the roommate’s lover lying dead on the stairs below. It was Ireland in 1945 and the roommate and the lover were also teens, but […]

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