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The Light Pirate

January 2, 2023

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Frida’s baby isn’t due for another month, but as Wanda, a Cat 4 hurricane, bears down on the family’s home in a small Florida town she decides to make her entrance to the world. To mark the event ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, climate fiction, coming-of-age, contemporary life, dystopia

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

December 13, 2022

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Gaming has never been my thing, aside from a brief flirtation with Centipede when I was working alone as a bartender and could play for free during the slow hours. For this reason, I had no interest ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, friendship, literary

The Cloisters: A Novel

November 16, 2022

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The Cloisters by Katy Hays has a catnip premise for readers like me: A studious young woman graduates from college and moves to the big city to get away from her sad, small-town life. In this case the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, new adult, New York City

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

November 14, 2022

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Barbara Kingsolver is back with Demon Copperhead, a serpentine tour-de-force set in the southern Appalachian Mountains. A modern-day David Copperfield, the novel follows Damon Fields from his ... Read More...

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Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

November 9, 2022

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Carlotta has had a time of it. She was sent to prison for 23 years because she was holding a gun nearby when someone was murdered. Worse, when she got there, she was a young man who knew he was meant ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, contemporary life, literary, social issues

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