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The Queen of Dirt Island

March 8, 2023

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The week Saoirse Aylward is born her father is killed in an accident, leaving her mother, Eileen alone to raise her. Their lives in a small village in western Ireland are at the heart of Donal Ryan’s ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, humor, Ireland, literary

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

May 4, 2022

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A Turkish woman lying murdered in a rubbish bin hardly seems like the appropriate subject for a piercingly tender novel about the damage done to innocence in childhood and the bonds of friendship as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, literary, women

January Reading Wrap-Up

January 31, 2022

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What to say about January? A month that went so fast, but didn’t seem to move at all. With subzero temperatures and a broken supply chain that left Costco with no Diet Coke (I can go without my meds, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: dystopia, literary, mini-reviews, mystery, thriller, true crime

February Reading

March 1, 2021

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  What to say about February? Mostly that it felt like the only real month of winter and that’s here in Michigan. For those of you in the South and Pacific Northwest I’m sure it felt like ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: memoir, mini-reviews

How Could She: A Novel

April 22, 2020

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How Could She by Lauren Mechling is the perfect palate cleanser after reading two tomes in a row about the Tudors. Defiantly contemporary, it’s the story of three friends. Or maybe, frenemies? It’s a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, friendship, Viking, women

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