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I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

Catherine — Tue, 14 May 2024 07:05:42 +0000

I’m once again fortunate enough to have a book find me and sweep me away despite my proclaimed inability to focus. It’s Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse an elegant novel of dystopia, mystery, and literary fiction. It’s a not-so-distant point in America’s future where climate change and political upheaval have erased all familiar landscapes, leaving […]

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In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

Catherine — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:47:38 +0000

In the near future two events occur that add new possibilities for human survival. One is an acceleration process that allows spacecraft to travel at up to 30 million mph, a speed previously unimagined, but that will open up galaxy exploration beyond science’s wildest dreams. The other is closer to home—an unmapped vent in the […]

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January Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:20:19 +0000

Anyone else have a tough reading month in January? Who knows whether it was because I had so much amazing backlist reading over the holidays or the fact that none of the new January books panned out for me. Either way, I’m not sorry to say goodbye to this first month of 2024. Let’s go […]

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The Covenant of Water

Catherine — Mon, 01 May 2023 07:10:09 +0000

Abraham Verghese is back with a new novel 14 years after his critically acclaimed bestseller, Cutting for Stone. The Covenant of Water is a saga spanning 70 years about one family with an unusual history—in every generation there is a family member with an aversion to water who ends up drowning. Verghese uses this mysterious […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:30:31 +0000

March was a great month for reading in that I ran from one book to another, but not so good for reviewing as my interest in writing fled in the opposite direction. Which now means I have a head full of tangled plots, character confusion, and dense clusters of missing information about what I’ve read. […]

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October Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:38:51 +0000

Goodbye, October. A part of me feels as if posting this recap is silly, given what lies ahead tomorrow, but maybe it will provide you with a bit of distraction. October turned out to be a big reading month—I finished 16 books and DNFed two at the 50% mark. I rated nine books four stars […]

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Crooked Hallelujah

Catherine — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:13:06 +0000

Texas and Oklahoma, during the 1970s and 1980s oil boom and bust, is the setting for Crooked Hallelujah, a debut novel about the lives of three generations of Cherokee women. Lula is the matriarch, Justine her daughter, and Reney her grand-daughter. The times were difficult, but even more so if you were a Native American […]

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Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:16:59 +0000

Japan is known as having a culture that prizes social conformity and adherence to societal values. In such a country, what would it be like to be a young woman whose nature keeps her from understanding these unspoken guidelines? For Keiko Furukuro, the narrator of Convenience Store Woman, it is not difficult. For everyone around […]

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Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Catherine — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:18:18 +0000

Everyone knows the writer’s life is not an easy one. For 31-year-old Casey it feels almost impossible. Her mother died suddenly, her boyfriend is gone, she’s working two jobs, and she lives in a space that used to be a potting shed. She wants to write a novel, but after six years has made little […]

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The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora

Catherine — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:10:17 +0000

The Paper Wasp is the story of two young women living in small Michigan town who were best friends. Up until high school that is, when Elise was discovered and left town for L.A. to become an actress. In losing her popular best friend, Abby floundered and even though she ended up as valedictorian she never […]

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