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All the Water in the World

January 20, 2025

all the water

The time has come. Thanks to climate change coastal cities are being abandoned for those further inland. In Manhattan, a small group of people has stayed behind, creating an encampment on top of the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: climate fiction, dystopia

More 2024 Reading I Loved

December 30, 2024

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I’m back with more books I loved in 2024. On Friday I shared the fact that almost all my 5-star favorite books for the year were backlist, but I still wanted to give a shoutout to this wide variety of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Feature Tagged: book clubs, favorite books, historical, memoir, mystery, thriller, vacation reading

July Reading Wrap-Up

August 1, 2024

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Hello, lovely readers! I’m sorry for my absence at the end of July but a whole lot of life—some of it very happy, some of it not so much—got in the way of my reading and reviewing. The happy was a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: fantasy, mini-reviews, true crime

Every Time We Say Goodbye

June 6, 2024

every time

I loved both of the novels in the Jane Austen series by Natalie Jenner so was delighted to learn it’s a trilogy with the third book newly released. Every Time We Say Goodbye follows the indomitable ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1950s, historical, Italy, vacation reading

The Women by Kristin Hannah

March 26, 2024

women

Silence. Shaking my head. Those are the two reactions I had when I finished reading Kristin Hannah’s new novel, The Women. I’m not sure the last time I read a book that brought me to tears so ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical, Vietnam War

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