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Quiet Summer Reading: The Verdun Affair

July 27, 2018

verdun

Last week I started this little feature for books that don't quite fit in the normal summer reading mold. This week's pick is still a quiet character study, but about a devastating time in history.    I have read many, many novels about World War II, but very few about World War I. That, plus a level of ignorance that feels embarrassing means I didn’t know that in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction, literary, Scribner, World War I

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

April 26, 2013

When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

  Those of us left behind dug in. Through the fall, through the winter, it seemed we lived on the border of a real life lived elsewhere. It seemed that the absence was ours somehow, not theirs, that we were the ones who were gone.  When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man is an aptly titled debut that takes place on Loyalty Island, off of Washington State, where the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, debut, mystery, Riverhead Books

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