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Mothers’ Week: Mother Country

Catherine — Fri, 10 May 2019 07:45:26 +0000

Nadia’s life is not an easy one. She works not one, but two jobs—as a home attendant for an elderly man and as a nanny for a little girl. It’s necessary because she lives in Brooklyn while her daughter Larissa is still back in Ukraine. They’ve been separated for six years. Lonely years for Nadia […]

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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Catherine — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:38:46 +0000

Sometimes there are great books that are almost impossible to review. An example is A Little Life—a novel of abuse that, while it was brilliant, was not for everyone. But, what was not difficult about it was the fact of the abuse—a subject that does not divide or cause unease. Bryn Greenwood ‘s debut novel […]

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Books about Books: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 08 May 2015 07:05:13 +0000

Every reader has a soft spot, a genre or author or both that they gravitate towards without their usual scrutiny. Some people will read any book about dogs, others will grab anything written by John Grisham or Stephen King. For me, it’s books about books or books with the word book in the title. My […]

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Bitter Greens

Catherine — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 07:30:02 +0000

Charlotte-Rose de la Force is a most unfortunate woman for her times. Unmarried and subject to whims of Louis XIV she has provoked his ire once too often with her acerbic writings about the Church and has now been consigned to a nunnery. For a woman who loves her fine silk dresses and elegantly […]

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A Paris Apartment

Catherine — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:12:15 +0000

Apparently, this is the week for Paris, as it is once again on my reading list as the subject of a new novel. And, again, it is based in fact. A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable takes the ultra-intriguing facts of a Parisian apartment that lay undisturbed from before WII until 2010 and layers […]

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The Headmaster’s Wife

Catherine — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:18:24 +0000

Some books are written with the intent to stun a reader with surprise and don’t offer much beyond that. Others, like The Headmaster’s Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene, use the surprise (the double surprise, even) as a jumping off point to much deeper issues. It is also a life lesson, one that I failed, because […]

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Ending October: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:27:37 +0000

October was a massive month in book publishing and I was fortunate enough to read some amazing new releases (The Goldfinch, We Are Water, The Signature of All Things). With my focus on works of such depth and intensity some of the novels that did not move me to the same degree got ignored. Here […]

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The Adventuress by N.D. Coleridge

Catherine — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:14:11 +0000

Vanity Fair is William Thackeray’s cutting look at the foibles and caricatures of Victorian England, as manipulated by the very tenacious and unscrupulous Beck Sharpe. In The Adventuress, author N.D. Coleridge takes this vixen of literature and recasts her in the modern day world as Cath Fox, a young woman from lowly and questionable […]

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