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Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin

Catherine — Thu, 14 May 2020 04:30:12 +0000

No one could be more surprised than me to be back again this week with another slower paced, character driven novel, but here I am. Gail Godwin’s Old Lovegood Girls is the story of Feron and Meredith (who goes by Merry), two young women who meet when they are fortuitously matched as roommates at Lovegood College, […]

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Women Talking: A Novel by Miriam Toews

Catherine — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:12:58 +0000

In the Mennonite community of Molotschna eight women gather in a barn to talk. Their meeting is a secret, made possible only because the men have gone into the city to bail out eight men who have been accused of a heinous crime: that of drugging and raping over 100 of the community’s women and […]

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Radiant Shimmering Light

Catherine — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:09:20 +0000

Lilian is trying to live her best life, but utilizing her ability to see animals’ auras while painting pet portraits is not working out. She can’t even earn enough to pay the rent on her Toronto apartment. She feels stymied and trapped so when her cousin Eleven (formerly Florence) Novak invites her to New York […]

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When God Was a Rabbit

Catherine — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:35:58 +0000

One of the best gifts of reading is not only discovering a new writer you love, but learning that they have written previous books, opening up the possibility of more wonderful reading. This was the case with Sarah Winman. I read her novel, Tin Man, and it was exactly the kind of simple but poetic […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 18 May 2018 07:34:50 +0000

I’m back, with two spring releases that I didn’t care for, but that I recognize could very well work for someone else. The family of women in What Should Be Wild are cursed. They are the Blakelys and they go back generations to 400 A.D. when the first, the young Alys, is slain by […]

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Peach by Emma Glass

Catherine — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:53:04 +0000

Peach is high intensity fiction, opening with an explosion of visceral, unremitting fear and pain as a young woman tries to pull herself together after being raped. Everything is relayed from a sensory level, from the odor of the man to the wool fibers of her mittens against her chin to the scalding hot […]

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August Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 07:43:06 +0000

Good bye August and goodbye summer! I complain a fair bit, but here is one thing that I absolutely loved about this summer in Seattle. We only had maybe three days all told when it got above 90°. The majority of the summer was in the mid-70s with dry, sunny days and chilly nights. My […]

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May Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 07:24:17 +0000

To call this month’s reading recap a mashup is an understatement. It could also be the library checkout recap or even the non-fiction recap—which is huge because I’m virtually certain I’ve never read more than one non-fiction book a month, much less four. And on all kinds of subjects! But there you have it. […]

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The Song Rising

Catherine — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 07:25:31 +0000

Oh, happy day, Paige Mahoney is back in book three of the Bone Season saga! At the end of The Mime Order she had wrested control of the London clairvoyant syndicate from her boss and mentor, Jaxon, and was now the new Underground Queen. Unfortunately, she had not killed Jaxon in the process and […]

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Indelible: A Novel by Adelia Saunders

Catherine — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:50:44 +0000

For as long as Magdalena could remember the words had always been there, although she didn’t used to think of them as words. At first she didn’t think of them as anything, they were just extensions of a person’s skin… What would it be like to know the most important facts of any person’s […]

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