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Wrapping Up 2023

January 5, 2024

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  I couldn’t let 2023 go without wrapping up the year in post about 5 additional novels I loved each from a different, previously unmentioned category. And if I could get myself pulled together (wink) I’d also be able to post all kinds of specifics on how my reading actually went in 2023, but let’s count that as a goal for 2024.   Best Debut I did less debut ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged: book clubs, favorite books

Juno Loves Legs

July 26, 2023

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With a personality as incendiary and out of control as her flaming red hair, Juno bursts onto the pages of Juno Loves Legs like a wildfire. She and Legs, her best friend, live in a housing estate in Dublin and in an abbreviated 300 pages the novel follows them from childhoods where even home isn’t safe to an adulthood that comes far too fast and too hard. And yet, through it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1980s, Ireland, literary

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