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May Reading Recap

June 2, 2017

May

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Tagged: beauty, Bloomsbury, fashion, food, health, mini-reviews, mystery, William Morrow

Indelible: A Novel by Adelia Saunders

February 24, 2017

indelible

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, book clubs, debut, literary, London

The World Without Us

June 22, 2016

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Australia, Bloomsbury, family, literary

The Mime Order

January 27, 2016

mime order

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, fantasy, London, science fiction, young adult

The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters

September 12, 2014

harristown sisters

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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, family saga, historical fiction, magical realism

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