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A Burning: A Novel by Megha Majumdar

June 15, 2020

burning

Jivan is a young woman living with her parents in a slum in India. She is a sales clerk at a nice clothing store. Everyone around her is shocked then when she is arrested for the bombing of a commuter ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, cultural, debut, India, literary

May Reading Recap

May 29, 2020

May

It’s getting harder and harder to tell the end of any month. Who knows when one has ended and a new one begun, but apparently May is over. The loss of normalcy and routine means that even as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: historical fiction, literary, memoir, mini-reviews

Great Summer Reading: Standard Deviation

June 28, 2017

standard

I don’t know any other way to begin this review than to say I’m pretty sure Katherine Heiny and I would be besties if we met. Not just because of the first name thing, but because cocktails and snarky ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Knopf, literary, marriage, midlife

February Reading Wrap-Up

March 1, 2017

february

  Month two of 2017 is a wrap and I'm happy to report that by-and-large my reading mojo is returning. Whether that's due to better books coming out or the fact that I've doubled the amount of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: Knopf, memoir, mini-reviews, mystery, pop culture, Seattle, Simon & Schuster, William Morrow

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