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February Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:12:30 +0000

February was a month of extremes. I either held onto a book for dear life or dropped it like a bad habit. There was no middle ground. Thankfully, the majority of what I read was outstanding with 6 of the 11 novels I read being 4 stars or higher. DNFs are painful, but that disappointment […]

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January Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:02:32 +0000

What a month! By and large January had mostly great reading, but there were some real misses. I reviewed the books I enjoyed so this recap is going to be a bit less upbeat with the books I didn’t love. One in particular is a heartbreaker. Either I read far too much or Reef […]

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Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

Catherine — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:26:44 +0000

Sam DuChamp is a so-so spy novelist when he gets the idea to write a novel based on Don Quixote. Quichotte is born. He’s a 70-year-old former pharmaceutical sales rep whose life has been reduced to watching lots of television. In doing so he has fallen in love with the beautiful young star, Miss Salma […]

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The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

Catherine — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:45:24 +0000

I’m a fan of detail in my fiction. I love it whether it’s literary (Donna Tartt) or historical (Alison Weir, Ken Follett), but when it isn’t specific to the story and is in fact an extrapolation of some minor concept, it can be exhausting. This means I left Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House feeling […]

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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Catherine — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:05:47 +0000

Salman Rushdie is back with Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a story about the strangeness that resulted from a seam being opened between the world of humans and the world of the supernatural, as embodied by jinns and their female counterparts, jiniri. Of the jiniri there was none more powerful than the […]

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