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November Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:12:09 +0000

November- what a month! I made it from Seattle to Ann Arbor and had a fabulous time driving across country. All our belongings showed up intact and on time with only a few hiccups. We’re still unpacking, organizing, and dealing with the ‘our furniture doesn’t fit in this space’ confusion. And getting hit with an […]

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A Dancer in the Dust

Catherine — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:41:50 +0000

Ray Campbell is a risk assessment manager when A Dancer in the Dust begins but it is his time as an aid worker in Africa decades ago that forms the foundation of the novel. As a young man assigned to the newly independent country of Lubanda he is filled with idealism and a desire […]

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Sandrine’s Case

Catherine — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 07:35:25 +0000

In the early morning hours of November 15th a police officer is called to investigate a suicide in the small town of Coburn, Georgia. Sandrine Madison lies dead in her bed of an apparent drug overdose. There is no other trauma or indication of foul play but the officer gets a ‘feeling’ from the […]

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Darkest: Daddy Love

Catherine — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:38:02 +0000

Joyce Carol Oates is a seductress who leads you into whatever world she is exploring. This can be poignant, uplifting, or deeply disturbing. In the case of Daddy Love it’s the latter. The first four chapters recount the same time span in a mother’s life—the moment when her child is taken from her. Yet […]

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