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The Falconer: A Novel by Dana Czapnik

October 16, 2019

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I loved this diamond bright, coming-of-age novel about a female athlete so much that when I saw it came out in paperback recently I had to share my thoughts with all of you again. If you haven't read it yet, you need to get it NOW.  On page two of The Falconer, when Lucy Adler says I met that basketball for the first time only thirty minutes ago but I already know I ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, debut, Faber and Faber, literary, New York City

Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

September 23, 2019

quichotte

Sam DuChamp is a so-so spy novelist when he gets the idea to write a novel based on Don Quixote. Quichotte is born. He’s a 70-year-old former pharmaceutical sales rep whose life has been reduced to watching lots of television. In doing so he has fallen in love with the beautiful young star, Miss Salma R. He decides to drive across the country to be with her, guided along the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, literary, magical realism, pop culture, Random House, social issues

A Door in the Earth

September 20, 2019

door

Parveen is like most young women her age—graduating college, but not sure what she wants to do with her degree in medical anthropology. Until she reads a memoir, written by a man who goes to Afghanistan and after a traumatic incident that left a woman dead from giving birth, founds and funds a women’s health center in a small isolated village. Parveen is Afghan-American and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, cultural, literary, Little Brown and Company, Middle East, war

gods with a little g

August 16, 2019

gods

On Monday, I reviewed a novel centered around the lives of two ministers, but it was not a book focused on organized religion. Today’s novel, gods with a little g, is the opposite, with religion at the center of everything in Rosary, California. An oil refinery town that has proudly merged church and state, to the point of cutting itself off from the nearest neighboring city, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: California, coming-of-age, contemporary life, Farrar Straus Giroux, literary

The Mere Wife: A novel

August 2, 2019

mere

Just out in paperback, this was a novel I loved and thought deserved a lot more attention.   Maybe every monster is a miracle meant to change the world... Author Maria Headley dives into a modern-day retelling of Beowolf beginning with its title, The Mere Wife. This is no novel about a slight wife, a minor presence, a smudge of a life. No, the women in this tale ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, literary, Picador, retellings

Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

July 3, 2019

whisper network

Sloane, Ardie, and Grace are all well-paid, director level lawyers at an athletic apparel company in Dallas. Their boss, Ames, is a high-powered executive about to be promoted to CEO. Each of them has been subjected to inappropriate behavior on his part so when they learn about an anonymous spreadsheet with the actions and names of men who’ve behaved badly at other Dallas ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, Flatiron Books, social issues, women

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