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October Reading

Catherine — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:54:11 +0000

October, what a month. So much chaos in the world and the U.S. and none of it is positive. For your sakes, I’ll stick with books here. Suffice it to say, all the madness in the world in the last two weeks of the month left me with the attention span of a gnat so […]

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August Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:12:26 +0000

August has followed summer out the door, but the weather was as lovely as the majority of my reading, with more highs than lows. The first week of September is about to end so I thought I ought to check in with what worked and what didn’t before I head into all the new fall […]

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October Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 07:54:31 +0000

Goodbye, October! This was another one of those months where, when I looked up it was the 20th and I had no idea where the days went. Is that an age thing? Because I never used to notice it so much. Anyway, I didn’t read as many books in October, for two reasons. One, I’m […]

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Shelter in Place

Catherine — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:31:56 +0000

Alexander Maksik doesn’t waste any time getting to the meat of his new novel Shelter in Place. The first chapter is a small paragraph introducing Joe March with three facts: his mother beat a man to death with a hammer, he fell in love with a woman named Tess and he battles a black weight […]

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The Golden Age: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:47:54 +0000

Joan London’s The Golden Age is a quiet novel about a frightening time in the 1950s when, instead of fun and freedom, summer came to mean fear and isolation as pools were closed and children kept inside the house in the hopes of avoiding the dreaded polio. The Golden Age is a convalescent home […]

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Sergio Y.

Catherine — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 07:25:07 +0000

Armando is a seventy-year-old highly esteemed psychiatrist in São Paulo and the narrator of Sergio Y. He is writing because of a patient he had many years ago—a seventeen-year-old boy who came to see him for several months but abruptly ended their sessions without explanation after returning from vacation in New York City. The […]

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