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May Reading

May 31, 2023

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  May is over? Are we sure? The last time I looked it was the 13th. Thankfully, all the gorgeous flowers and colors here were a distraction from what was another month of meh reading. It would ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: contemporary life, cultural, historical fiction, memoir, mini-reviews

Winterland: A Novel

November 28, 2022

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Does anyone else remember the USSR dominance in women’s gymnastics in the 1970s? When a name like Ludmilla Tourischeva might be the only Russian an American knew? A new novel, Winterland, takes place ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction, Russia, sports

NSFW: A Novel

September 9, 2022

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I recently read NSFW a debut from Isabel Kaplan and I’m fairly certain my visceral reaction to the novel is a response becoming more and more common to me and to many of the women I know given recent ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, new adult, social issues, women

August Reading Wrap-Up

September 1, 2021

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August, what a month for reading. Even better—not just quantity, but quality. All this despite the fact that I cancelled my second cataract surgery because I found the results from the first so ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: humor, literary, mini-reviews, New England, pop culture

We Begin at the End

July 28, 2021

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Somehow, in the past two weeks I stumbled into two novels that were antithetical to my usual, lighter summer reading. Both are standouts, but require the right head space. Monday was The Paper ... Read More...

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