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Real Americans by Rachel Khong

June 14, 2024

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Rachel Khong’s new novel, Real Americans is one family’s story told in four parts spanning from the year 2000 into some time in the near future. The first is set in NYC and introduces a young woman ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: family, literary, social issues

The Rachel Incident

July 21, 2023

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Rachel is working in London as a journalist when an unfamiliar man throws out a name from her past that catapults her back to her university days. From this modern-day beginning author Caroline ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, friendship, Ireland, literary

March Reading Recap

March 31, 2023

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March has been a month of extremes. There was no middle ground to my reading. I had six books four stars and higher, but I also had four books I didn’t finish. This could be due, in part, to the fact ... Read More...

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Best Books of 2022

December 29, 2022

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  I’m going to cut to the chase: it was a challenging year for my reading. Not due to a lack of options, I just lost my reading mojo for a while. However, there were 8 books that broke through ... Read More...

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

April 7, 2021

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In an unspecified place, sometime in the future, Klara waits inside a store for her new best friend. Days pass and she moves from section to section, often gazing out the main window onto the street, ... Read More...

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