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8 Beautiful Backlist Books to Read Now

Catherine — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:10:37 +0000

After a little digression on Friday, it’s back to books! Reading may be your escape during quarantine, but for many the economic issues caused by the pandemic means buying the newest releases isn’t a great idea. So, today I’ve got eight beautiful backlist books I read and loved years ago. Several I’ve never talked about […]

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When God Was a Rabbit

Catherine — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:35:58 +0000

One of the best gifts of reading is not only discovering a new writer you love, but learning that they have written previous books, opening up the possibility of more wonderful reading. This was the case with Sarah Winman. I read her novel, Tin Man, and it was exactly the kind of simple but poetic […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 18 May 2018 07:34:50 +0000

I’m back, with two spring releases that I didn’t care for, but that I recognize could very well work for someone else. The family of women in What Should Be Wild are cursed. They are the Blakelys and they go back generations to 400 A.D. when the first, the young Alys, is slain by […]

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Peach by Emma Glass

Catherine — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:53:04 +0000

Peach is high intensity fiction, opening with an explosion of visceral, unremitting fear and pain as a young woman tries to pull herself together after being raped. Everything is relayed from a sensory level, from the odor of the man to the wool fibers of her mittens against her chin to the scalding hot […]

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August Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 07:43:06 +0000

Good bye August and goodbye summer! I complain a fair bit, but here is one thing that I absolutely loved about this summer in Seattle. We only had maybe three days all told when it got above 90°. The majority of the summer was in the mid-70s with dry, sunny days and chilly nights. My […]

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May Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 07:24:17 +0000

To call this month’s reading recap a mashup is an understatement. It could also be the library checkout recap or even the non-fiction recap—which is huge because I’m virtually certain I’ve never read more than one non-fiction book a month, much less four. And on all kinds of subjects! But there you have it. […]

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Indelible: A Novel by Adelia Saunders

Catherine — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:50:44 +0000

For as long as Magdalena could remember the words had always been there, although she didn’t used to think of them as words. At first she didn’t think of them as anything, they were just extensions of a person’s skin… What would it be like to know the most important facts of any person’s […]

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The World Without Us

Catherine — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:45:10 +0000

Tess Müller hasn’t spoken in six months. Her mother, Evangeline, pushes a pram around all the time. Her younger sister draws trees and more trees. In most places they would stand out, but in the Australian town of Bidgalong strange is a relative concept. For decades the hills near the town were home to […]

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The Mime Order

Catherine — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:26:11 +0000

I don’t read a lot of young adult science fiction but when Samantha Shannon’s first book The Bone Season came out I was intrigued enough that I was curious about the next chapter in the life of her protagonist, Paige Mahoney. Shannon returns Paige to London after she escapes from Sheol I, a penal […]

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The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters

Catherine — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:38:35 +0000

The Swineys are seven Irish sisters of unknown paternity growing up in a falling-down shack in a small town in Ireland in the late 1800s. They have no electricity, no indoor toilets, and so little food that a piece of bread may suffice for the day. What they do have is hair of extraordinary length […]

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