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Nora Goes Off Script

May 22, 2023

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When Nora’s husband leaves their family to pursue his dreams, she does what she always does—she writes about it. Nora earns her living writing romance movies for cable TV, but in Nora Goes Off ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, chick lit, vacation reading, women

Best Books of 2022

December 29, 2022

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  I’m going to cut to the chase: it was a challenging year for my reading. Not due to a lack of options, I just lost my reading mojo for a while. However, there were 8 books that broke through ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, favorite books, historical fiction, memoir

Booth: A Novel by Karen Joy Fowler

June 21, 2022

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I’m not a Civil War buff so have never paid much attention to the time period, but when I saw Karen Joy Fowler had a new novel out, I knew I wanted to read it regardless of subject matter. Which is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Civil War, historical fiction, Southern life

Love & Saffron: A Novel

February 7, 2022

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Seattle and Los Angeles, same coast but vastly different places, especially in the 1960s. Imogene Fortier writes a column known to readers in the Pacific Northwest so is surprised to not only get a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1960s, book clubs, friendship, historical fiction, women

July Reading Wrap-Up

July 30, 2021

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  July. What a month! On the bright side there was this: Me getting to see my mother after 18 months apart. She's the person who encouraged my love of reading. And that’s about as much as I ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: contemporary life, cultural, humor, mini-reviews, vacation reading

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