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We Run the Tides

Catherine — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:59:53 +0000

I’m not sure it’s an actual publishing trend for 2021, but it’s fairly unusual for me to read three novels on the same subject in one year. In this case, it’s private girls’ schools—always fascinating to me, but to the general public? I guess so. In January, there was The Divines and this month, All […]

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September Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:06:14 +0000

Goodbye summer! What an odd one it was—mostly chilly, but dry with only three days got that anywhere near hot. The worst of it was in with the fires in the Columbia Gorge when, even though we live up in Seattle, we had ash settling on our deck, trapping the heat and smoke for almost […]

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The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty

Catherine — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:16:01 +0000

Plenty of people go on vacation to lose themselves but probably not in the way of the narrator in Vendela Vida’s novel The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She lands in Morocco and midway through the check-in process at her hotel realizes her backpack has been stolen, almost out of her hands. It contains every piece […]

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