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Where’s an Editor When You Need One?: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:08:27 +0000

We’ve all read novels by authors who have a way with words, know how to shape a sentence, generate tension…all the good stuff, right? But what about when that good stuff keeps going and going until what felt like a perfect balance turns into words and plot piling on unchecked? I’m left either annoyed […]

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How to Survive a Summer

Catherine — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:13:35 +0000

Will Dillard’s film studies dissertation is making his life miserable because he can’t seem to finish it. In fact, finishing anything after the summer he spent at Camp Levi when he was fifteen, has been difficult. Now, a movie, based on a memoir about the camp has come out and whatever semblance of motivation […]

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The Train for Crazytown Stops Here

Catherine — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 07:43:29 +0000

Kind of an aggressive title for a book review post, yes? Honestly, it was the first thing that popped into my head when thinking about the two books today. Based on their titles I thought they would be snack food reads—high in calories but with almost no nutritional value, salty or sweet, and not good […]

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The Empty Glass

Catherine — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:29:04 +0000

Marilyn Monroe is one of the most iconic stars in American history. Numerous non-fiction books detail her life but it is the fiction that provides more fodder for the rumors about her death; namely because it can draw on the smallest of details and create a story around them. If it sounds like I’m […]

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