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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

May 4, 2022

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A Turkish woman lying murdered in a rubbish bin hardly seems like the appropriate subject for a piercingly tender novel about the damage done to innocence in childhood and the bonds of friendship as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, literary, women

Memphis: A Novel by Tara Stringfellow

April 11, 2022

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Memphis is both the title and location of Tara Stringfellow’s stirring debut novel. Three generations of women pass through the family’s home and tumultuous times in a city where racism and violence ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, Southern life

Four Treasures of the Sky

April 6, 2022

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From the near-future in The Candy House I read my way through the distant past in Jenny Zhang’s Four Treasures of the Sky. The novel is the story of Daiyu, a young girl in China, kidnapped and ... Read More...

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The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

April 4, 2022

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  Not every story needs to be told. Easy-to-digest reading has been a nice break lately, but I was happily pulled back into literary fiction with Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House.  Set in a time ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, literary, science fiction

Happy at Any Cost

March 28, 2022

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While Zappos may be an easily recognizable name to anyone who shops online and loves shoes, Tony Hsieh is probably not. I knew of him because he was often profiled in business news for his unique take ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: 21st century, biography

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