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May Reading Recap

June 2, 2017

May

  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, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Tagged: beauty, Bloomsbury, fashion, food, health, mini-reviews, mystery, William Morrow

The Song Rising

March 22, 2017

song

  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. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, dystopia, fantasy, London, science fiction, young adult

Indelible: A Novel by Adelia Saunders

February 24, 2017

indelible

  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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, book clubs, debut, literary, London

The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma

December 19, 2016

private life

  Often the first person narrative is used by an author to create doubt in the mind of the reader. Ratika Kapur does the opposite in her novel, The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma, with a narrator who calmly tells the truth about her actions from ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, book clubs, contemporary life, cultural, India, marriage

The World Without Us

June 22, 2016

  Tess Müller hasn’t spoken in six months. Her mother, Evangeline, pushes a pram around all the time. Her younger sister draws trees and more trees. In most places they would stand out, but in the Australian town of Bidgalong strange is a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Australia, Bloomsbury, family, literary

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