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Beautiful Little Fools

Catherine — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 05:18:56 +0000

A sweltering August day, a stunning estate, and a crystalline pool, its pellucid water tinged red by Jay Gatsby’s blood. Shot once and now dead. We all know this is how The Great Gatsby ends but in Jillian Cantor’s Beautiful Little Fools, it’s just the beginning. Although the police have closed the case, Detective […]

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February Reading

Catherine — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 05:39:39 +0000

What to say about February? Mostly that it felt like the only real month of winter and that’s here in Michigan. For those of you in the South and Pacific Northwest I’m sure it felt like hell. As for reading, it was an interesting month. My reading felt oddly decisive—loved or hated books. There […]

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More Than A Woman by Caitlin Moran

Catherine — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 04:54:48 +0000

I’ve loved all of Caitlin Moran’s fiction (How to Build a Girl, How to Be Famous) but had never read any of her nonfiction, so was interested to see she has a new book out. More Than a Woman is her follow-up to How to Be a Woman, which she wrote when she was […]

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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Catherine — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:52:22 +0000

I feel like a broken record for all the times since 2017 that I’ve said, “Important reading. Timely reading. Everyone should read.”, but here I am again. Not That Bad, with its essays from women around the world, talking about their experiences of rape, harassment, intimidation, and violence is the kind of reading that goes […]

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Catherine — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:15:16 +0000

The point is, I don’t know what exactly I’d foreseen would happen when Kevin was first hoisted to my breast. I hadn’t foreseen anything exactly. I wanted what I could not imagine. I wanted to be transformed; I wanted to be transported. I wanted a door to open and a whole new vista to […]

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Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere

Catherine — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:39:30 +0000

Judging a Book by Its Lover is a sharp, funny look at the world of books and reading by one of its biggest fans, Lauren Leto. A law school dropout who gained fame through her website, Texts From Last Night, Leto is also a voracious and thoughtful reader. Old-school jargon would call her a bookworm […]

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