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Strange the Dreamer

Catherine — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 08:59:44 +0000

The unconscious mind is open terrain—no walls or barriers, for better or worse. Thoughts and feelings are free to wander, like characters leaving their books to taste life in other stories. Terrors roam, and so do yearnings. Secrets are turned out like pockets, and old memories meet new…The only rule is that there are no […]

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Check & Mate

Catherine — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:58:56 +0000

Mallory is only 18 but she already has an unwanted reputation. She’s the only person to have beaten Nolan Sawyer, the 20-year-old World Chess Champion who hasn’t lost in over three years. Some would be thrilled, but Mallory hates chess and hasn’t played since that infamous game. This is the board upon which Ali Hazelwood […]

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True Biz by Sara Novic

Catherine — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:20:14 +0000

So much of today’s zeitgeist revolves around the much needed recognition of vulnerable communities, but what about acknowledgement for the community that can’t hear? Sara Novic explores the realities of deaf life in her riveting novel True Biz. Set at the River Valley School for the Deaf boarding school, the novel encompasses the lives of […]

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Catherine — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 04:17:41 +0000

I don’t know about the rest of you, but it’s requiring more and more effort to calm my reading brain. Between watching the real footage of the January 6th insurrection and trying to negotiate a cross country move I was as finicky and unhappy as a baby with colic. Nothing helped—not bright and shiny or […]

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Firekeeper’s Daughter: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:49:45 +0000

As a biracial member of the Ojibwe tribe Daunis Fontaine lives in the uncomfortable in-between space of not belonging to any one community. What bought her acceptance from everyone were her incredible skills as a hockey player. After graduating high school she was looking forward to a bright future as a player at the University […]

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

Catherine — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:05:11 +0000

Often when it’s time to begin a book review I try and draw from the facts—plot, place, biographical details. Because I read so much (and don’t have the discipline I should) specifics tend to blur by the time I sit down to write so in starting there I bring the book back to me. All […]

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Majesty: A Novel by Katharine McGee

Catherine — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 05:40:56 +0000

Earlier this fall I read and fell in love with American Royals by Katharine McGee. The book’s sequel, Majesty came out in September and I had it on hold at the library, but I finally gave up and bought it (gasp!) because I couldn’t wait any longer. Also, I’m really trying to support my local book […]

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American Royals by Katharine McGee

Catherine — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:53:06 +0000

One of my goals in reviewing books is to not only share my opinion about a book, but also to remain objective enough in my opinions that you, dear readers, can form your own opinion about whether or not you want to read that book. All that is out the window with today’s review because […]

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Fat Girl on a Plane

Catherine — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 07:03:37 +0000

When you’re fat, you’re very conscious of the area you occupy. Of all the people in the universe, the overweight are the most conscious of personal space. We never want you to have to rub up against us. Fat Girl on a Plane is both the title of Kelly DeVos’s debut novel and the defining […]

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The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

Catherine — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 07:51:57 +0000

Set in 1947 The Night Diary is the story of twelve-year-old twins, Amil and Nisha, who live in what was once India but has now, almost overnight, turned into Pakistan. Their mother, who died giving birth, was Muslim, but their father is Hindu—making them unwelcome where they are. They must get across the border into […]

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