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Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Catherine — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:46:19 +0000

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 named Lily who falls in love with the heir to a pharmaceutical fortune. Part two takes place 15 […]

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The Rachel Incident

Catherine — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:41:11 +0000

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 O’Donoghue jumps back to 2008 when the Irish economy was in freefall, Rachel was in her third year of university, and she […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:10:11 +0000

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 that I overcommitted on books to read for March. Where I might normally push […]

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Best Books of 2022

Catherine — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:12:15 +0000

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 my broken brain and gave me all the pleasure I look for in my reading. […]

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Catherine — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 04:59:27 +0000

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, observing and absorbing what’s happening in the world outside. She has a strong sense of who her new friend […]

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Betty: A Novel by Tiffany McDaniel

Catherine — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:14:56 +0000

A biracial little girl is the main character and the namesake in Tiffany McDaniel’s shattering novel, Betty. Born in 1954 and raised in Appalachian Ohio, the novel follows her and her five siblings, a Cherokee father, and White mother as their lives are acid-etched with racism from the outside and tragedy from within. The South […]

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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Catherine — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 04:14:29 +0000

There are so many things I wish I could forget, but maybe “forget” isn’t quite right. There are so many things I wish I never knew. Transcendent Kingdom is a novel that lies at the intersection of religion, addiction, science, and mental health. Gifty is a PhD candidate at Stanford, studying reward-seeking behavior’s role […]

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The Golden Cage: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:22:15 +0000

The story is not a new one in fiction: intelligent woman meets man in college, gives him great business idea, he runs with it, they marry, have children, and she finds herself left with nothing when replaced by younger, firmer version of herself. In The Golden Cage, Faye is the woman and in Sweden she […]

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The Girls from Corona del Mar

Catherine — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 04:42:33 +0000

When Lorrie Ann and Mia become best friends, Mia believes herself to be the shadow behind Lorrie Ann’s golden girl. By the time they reach high school Mia is even more sure that Lorrie Ann is everything she is not. She is kind, caring and good, part of a tight knit family while Mia sees […]

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8 Beautiful Backlist Books to Read Now

Catherine — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 04:10:37 +0000

After a little digression on Friday, it’s back to books! Reading may be your escape during quarantine, but for many the economic issues caused by the pandemic means buying the newest releases isn’t a great idea. So, today I’ve got eight beautiful backlist books I read and loved years ago. Several I’ve never talked about […]

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