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August Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:50:10 +0000

August flew by, thanks to my first encounter with COVID. But I’m better now and while I didn’t get much reading or reviewing done, what I did read was diverse and interesting. Time to get back to regular review posting! As technology advances there is more and science fiction about scenarios that feel too […]

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Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult

Catherine — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:16:53 +0000

I’d left off reading Jodi Picoult after disliking her last two books and so didn’t read Mad Honey until two readers I trust said I would enjoy it. I listened to them, but this may be the briefest review of a 4 star novel I’ve ever done. Not for a lack of thoughts, but because the […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:10:11 +0000

March has been a month of extremes. There was no middle ground to my reading. I had six books four stars and higher, but I also had four books I didn’t finish. This could be due, in part, to the fact that I overcommitted on books to read for March. Where I might normally push […]

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Sirens & Muses: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 04:38:57 +0000

The bucolic landscape surrounding Wrynn College of Art a private, elite school in New England disguises an atmosphere of intensity in Antonia Angress’ novel, Sirens & Muses. Louisa and Karina are sophomores and roommates, but that’s where their surface commonality ends. Louisa is from New Orleans and can only afford school through loans and part-time […]

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The Book of Two Ways

Catherine — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:12:06 +0000

Jodi Picoult’s new novel, The Book of Two Ways, straddles the worlds of death and life choices, both in the present, and in the case of death, all the way back to ancient Egypt. Dawn is a woman fifteen years into a marriage when she decides she wants to know what might have happened in […]

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Everyone Knows How Much I Love You

Catherine — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 04:40:51 +0000

On Wednesday I reviewed a novel about female friendship that was unsettling because of the drama in the character’s lives, but managed to resonate in its portrayal of the many phases and nuances of long-term friendships. I went into today’s novel with the same hopes, but was deeply disappointed. I debated whether to even write […]

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