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Bear by Julia Phillips

November 22, 2024

bear

Small, character driven novels have not been good reading for me recently so I was surprised to be drawn into Bear. Somehow, author Julia Phillips makes the unexpected presence of a large bear in the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, literary, Pacific Northwest

Normal People by Sally Rooney

April 15, 2019

ten

Marianne and Connell live very different lives in the same small Irish town. She has a wealthy family and a big house, but is an outcast at their school, while he is everyone’s best friend, a natural ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, Hogarth, Ireland, literary, relationships

July Reading Wrap-Up

August 1, 2018

july

Oh boy, summer hit Seattle with a vengeance in July. I know for many other parts of the country temperatures in the high 80s are no big deal, but for those of us living in a region where air ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction, Reading Tagged: contemporary fiction, lists, mini-reviews

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Mini-Reviews

May 24, 2017

Shakespeare

  In a surprising bit of synchronicity, I read two great novels recently that both referenced Shakespeare—which is why the quote from Macbeth for this post’s title. Also, because there is a lot ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: childhood, Flatiron Books, friendship, mini-reviews, mystery, retellings

The Shore: A Novel by Sara Taylor

February 15, 2017

shore

  The Shore by Sara Taylor may qualify as one of the most unusually formatted books I’ve read in a long time. Take a family tree composed of over fifty members, stretching from the 1850s to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: family saga, historical fiction, Hogarth, literary, social issues, Southern life

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