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The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

April 4, 2022

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  Not every story needs to be told. Easy-to-digest reading has been a nice break lately, but I was happily pulled back into literary fiction with Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House.  Set in a time ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, literary, science fiction

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

March 23, 2022

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I’ve had some hesitancy about COVID novels—too much too soon, but Catherine Howard’s 56 Days had a premise I couldn’t resist. Set in Dublin, a couple that only recently started dating decides to move ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Ireland, mystery, suspense

Our American Friend

March 4, 2022

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What kind of trouble has to have occurred to leave an American journalist stranded in Croatia with her husband because the U.S. is unsafe for her? In Our American Friend, Anna Pitoniak’s new novel, ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, political intrigue

Brown Girls: A Novel

February 21, 2022

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Who are the brown girls? When Daphne Palasi Andreades’s novel, Brown Girls, opens it’s Nadira, Khadija, Anjali, Yesenia, and Sophie, a group of 10-year-olds growing up in the “dregs of Queens”. In ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, debut, literary

Must Love Books

February 4, 2022

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Given how much I love anything having to do with books, today’s review won’t come as much of a surprise: Must Love Books a debut by Shauna Robinson. That title! How could I not read it, especially ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, new adult

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