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The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

January 16, 2019

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The Dreamers opens with one of the greatest sources of angst for college girls—dorm life. Mei’s roommate, Kara, is wildly popular after only a month at school, while Mei cannot find her way into any social group. She’s left on the sidelines until it is Kara who slips away, by falling asleep one night…and not waking up. It’s nothing so nefarious as death, it’s just sleep. Soon ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, fantasy, Random House, science fiction

Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller

April 9, 2018

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No matter what else you might think about them, no one knows how to do drama like the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. And no one knows how to translate this drama for the modern mind like Madeline Miller. In her last novel, Song of Achilles, she showed the softer side of the god famed as a warrior. Now she is back with Circe, the story of the daughter of Helios (the sun ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, literary, Little Brown and Company, mythology

The Coincidence Makers

March 5, 2018

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  He always loved this warm sensation, which nearly permeated the bone, during the minute preceding the execution of a mission. It was the sensation that came from knowing he was about to reach out a finger and nudge the planet, or the heavens. The knowledge that he would be diverting things from their regular and familiar path, things that until a second ago were ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, fantasy, life, St. Martin's Press

The Song Rising

March 22, 2017

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  Oh, happy day, Paige Mahoney is back in book three of the Bone Season saga! At the end of The Mime Order she had wrested control of the London clairvoyant syndicate from her boss and mentor, Jaxon, and was now the new Underground Queen. Unfortunately, she had not killed Jaxon in the process and when the novel ended she learned that he was working with their greatest ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, dystopia, fantasy, London, science fiction, young adult

The Library at Mount Char

October 30, 2015

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When Carolyn was eight, she and a number of her neighborhood friends lost their homes and families and were subsequently adopted by a man they called Father. And that’s as normal as Scott Hawkins’ debut novel The Library at Mount Char gets. The rest is a story that is wildly, imaginatively over-the-top good. You see it turns out that Father has been around for possibly 60,000 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: debut, fantasy, magical realism, mystery

Slade House

October 26, 2015

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  At least once in every reader’s life a book comes along where they think ‘I wish the author had written more about that.’ For fans of David Mitchell that wish often comes true, thanks to his ability to resurrect characters in different iterations and insert them in subtle ways from one novel to the next. In his last novel, The Bone Clocks, there was a supernatural ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: horror, literary, paranormal, Random House, science fiction

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