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Shadows of Pecan Hollow

February 17, 2022

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Kit is 13 when she decides to abandon being abandoned. She’s been in foster care since she was a baby, in more homes than she can remember, but none of them has been good. Or even decent. She’s ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1970s, coming-of-age, debut, historical fiction

My 6 Favorite Debuts of 2021

December 20, 2021

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  Happy Monday and welcome to my first yearend best-of lists. Today is a favorite category: best debuts. Finding new authors is one of my greatest reading pleasures and 2021 proved to be a very ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature, Reading Tagged: book clubs, childhood, debut, favorite books, historical fiction, literary, mystery

The People We Keep: A Novel

November 8, 2021

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At 16 April Sawicki’s life looks pretty well-mapped out, if there were such a thing as maps going nowhere. She lives in a broken motorhome, alone because her father has a new girlfriend and doesn’t ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, literary

We Begin at the End

July 28, 2021

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Somehow, in the past two weeks I stumbled into two novels that were antithetical to my usual, lighter summer reading. Both are standouts, but require the right head space. Monday was The Paper ... Read More...

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Nowhere Girl: A Memoir

July 8, 2021

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I’m seldom at a loss for words, but I recently finished a memoir that left me…???...!!! Nowhere Girl by Cheryl Diamond follows Diamond from when she is a small child to when she is 30. In that time, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, debut, memoir, vacation reading

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