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September Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:09:46 +0000

Goodbye September, the first month that felt like a month in a long time. I don’t remember much about July and August, but September proceeded with a normal feel. I’m still not back to writing reviews as often as I used to, but I’m acknowledging that may be a permanent change—2 reviews a week instead […]

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2021 Underrated Gems

Catherine — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:46:44 +0000

Every year I read books I loved, but that seemed to go under-the-radar for most people. Yes, reading is a very personal endeavor and what is 5 stars for me may not be 5 stars for you, but I’ve got 7 underrated gems I read this year that I’m almost evangelical about—I loved them that […]

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The Island of Missing Trees

Catherine — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:15:09 +0000

Cyprus is a country literally divided, right down to its capital. In 1960 when the British finally left they repeated their practice of leaving a political vacuum by not resolving issues between existing groups to ensure a peaceful transition. As a result, the island’s population, mixed between a Greek majority and a Turkish minority, lived […]

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Fight Night: A Novel by Miriam Toews

Catherine — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:12:33 +0000

Sometimes when we fight…sometimes we’re not fighting in quite the right way…we need to adjust our game. But still, the main thing is that we’re fighting…your mom’s a fighter. We’re all fighters. Swiv comes from a family of fighters. At nine she’s suspended from school because King of the Castle is not a recess game […]

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The Mysteries by Marisa Silver

Catherine — Fri, 07 May 2021 04:26:39 +0000

Set in the early 1970s The Mysteries by Marisa Silver is about Margaret Ann (Miggy), the only child of Julian and Jean Brenneman. They married in their early 20s so he could avoid the Vietnam War draft and Miggy was born when Jean ran out of birth control pills. Not necessarily an auspicious beginning for […]

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Zorrie by Laird Hunt

Catherine — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:20:45 +0000

Towards the end of last year, the only reading that worked for me was fast paced thrillers. More plot, more action, less literary. This year is taking a turn (or a return) to the fiction that’s always drawn me in, the kind where the words matter more than anything else. Laird Hunt’s latest, Zorrie, epitomizes […]

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August Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 04:09:58 +0000

Goodbye, August—the last month of summer and my first summer in Michigan has wrapped up. Much like this winter, the majority of the summer was reasonable. A few days when the heat and humidity filled my veins with lead, but not as bad as it good be. In an effort to stay in a positive […]

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Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin

Catherine — Thu, 14 May 2020 04:30:12 +0000

No one could be more surprised than me to be back again this week with another slower paced, character driven novel, but here I am. Gail Godwin’s Old Lovegood Girls is the story of Feron and Meredith (who goes by Merry), two young women who meet when they are fortuitously matched as roommates at Lovegood College, […]

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Ten Best Books of 2019

Catherine — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 05:30:48 +0000

Well, what do you know. Rather than being my usual contrarian self, I actually have ten books I consider to be the best of 2019. Of course, that doesn’t include the eight debut novels I wrote about on Wednesday, but let’s not split hairs. The point is: ALL of these books are marvelous. Even […]

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Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews

Catherine — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:12:58 +0000

In the Mennonite community of Molotschna eight women gather in a barn to talk. Their meeting is a secret, made possible only because the men have gone into the city to bail out eight men who have been accused of a heinous crime: that of drugging and raping over 100 of the community’s women and […]

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