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Home of the American Circus

Catherine — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:18:22 +0000

Home of the American Circus begins with Freya’s rent being overdue and her appendix bursting. These two events give her no choice but to leave Maine where she lives and head back to her hometown in New York. And not just the town, but her childhood home which was left to her by her parents. Once […]

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The Lion Women of Tehran

Catherine — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:18:40 +0000

When Ellie’s father unexpectedly dies, she and her mother find their circumstances dramatically changed for the worse. There is so little money left they have to sell their beautiful home and move to a tiny apartment in downtown Tehran. It is her mother’s worst nightmare, but for 7-year-old Ellie it means meeting Homa, the girl […]

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The Things We Didn’t Know

Catherine — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:23:56 +0000

When Andrea is 9-years-old she finds herself and her little brother Pablo uprooted from their home in Woronoco, Massachusetts and left in a small Puerto Rican village with an aunt they’ve never met. All because their mother hates living in their small 1950s factory town in America and is lonely. This unsettling turn of events […]

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August Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 04:15:50 +0000

Goodbye to August and to summer 2022. I’m not going to rehash what chaos it was in the Gilmore household, but 2,200 miles later we’re settling back into Seattle. Even better, my August reading ended up being really strong—in quality if not quantity. Out of the 13 books I read, 7 were 4 stars or […]

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2021 Underrated Gems

Catherine — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:46:44 +0000

Every year I read books I loved, but that seemed to go under-the-radar for most people. Yes, reading is a very personal endeavor and what is 5 stars for me may not be 5 stars for you, but I’ve got 7 underrated gems I read this year that I’m almost evangelical about—I loved them that […]

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The People We Keep: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 05:39:18 +0000

At 16 April Sawicki’s life looks pretty well-mapped out, if there were such a thing as maps going nowhere. She lives in a broken motorhome, alone because her father has a new girlfriend and doesn’t come home anymore, and her mother is long gone. She’s flunking out of high school, but her boyfriend is the […]

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Faye, Faraway: A Novel

Catherine — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:53:59 +0000

I’ll preface this quick review with the fact that I read Faye, Faraway in the week between the Capitol riot and the inauguration. Translate: my brain was in a petulant snit. Nothing worked and my fuse was between short and non-existent. I needed superlative reading. So, while I was displeased with this novel I rated […]

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Summer Nonfiction Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 04:59:06 +0000

I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing my astonishment over my nonfiction reading, but honestly, this is the first time in all my years of blogging where I have 3 5-star nonfiction books before the year is even over. And this is just from the last two months! I’m not going to bore you (yet!) […]

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April Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 01 May 2020 04:46:08 +0000

What to say about April? That I had very little clue the month was ending because I’m lucky if I can remember what day of the week it is? That, despite having nowhere to go I read fewer books this month than any other month this year? I have no answers, except that we’re not […]

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April Library Checkout

Catherine — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:08:51 +0000

Another month gone?! I’d be more worried if we weren’t in the midst of spring here in Seattle. Who can worry when everything is blooming?! April was another slow month for new releases so I was able to continue with a lot of April library checkouts. That’s going to change in May because I have a lot of […]

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