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May Reading Recap

May 29, 2020

May

It’s getting harder and harder to tell the end of any month. Who knows when one has ended and a new one begun, but apparently May is over. The loss of normalcy and routine means that even as restrictions in Michigan ease I feel unsettled going out and saddened by the fact that what was once normal may not be that way for the foreseeable future. This ongoing uncertainty has led ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: historical fiction, literary, memoir, mini-reviews

Sweetbitter

May 30, 2016

sweetbitter

  “You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present.”   Tess arrives in NYC in the summer of 2006 from somewhere, but it doesn't matter where because as far as she is concerned she didn't exist before passing through the tollbooth onto the island of Manhattan. And we shouldn't care either, which we don't, because in short ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, debut, Knopf, literary, New York City, restaurants

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