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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

Catherine — Fri, 04 May 2018 07:15:16 +0000

Like some of the other non-fiction books I read last month (Educated, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark), American Radical by Tamer Elnoury reads like fiction. High-wire tension, thriller kind of reading. Tamer Elnoury (not his real name) is an undercover FBI agent. He was brought here from Egypt by his parents when he […]

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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Catherine — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:49:14 +0000

Turtles All the Way Down is my first experience with John Green and it left me mostly with…nothing. On the one hand, I applaud him for writing such an unsympathetic character, but on the other, I didn’t want to read about her. Her is Aza, a teenager with severe OCD. She has a loving […]

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Enchantress of Numbers

Catherine — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 08:13:51 +0000

What kind of child might you get if you matched a world-famous poet known for his outrageous lifestyle and a genteel woman with a penchant for knowledge and restraint? If it was the early 1800s in England then you’d get Augusta Ada Byron, the only legitimate heir of Lord George Gordon Byron. Enchantress of […]

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Fates and Traitors

Catherine — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:00:42 +0000

Fates and Traitors is a novel about John Wilkes Booth as told from the vantage point of the three women who were most important in his life and one near stranger who let him into her life. There is his mother, Mary Ann Booth; his sister, Asia; and Lucy Hale, his secret fiancé. Mary Surratt is […]

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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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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 07:56:03 +0000

First of all, how is it that summer is already over?! I know this wasn’t the case in most of the country, but here in Seattle we never had sustained summer heat, just a few days here and there. It still feels as if summer lies ahead, even though September is chock full of big releases. Having […]

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Belzhar: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:53:20 +0000

Imagine a small boarding school for “fragile” teens in rural Vermont and within that school an exclusive English class to which only 4 or 5 students are handpicked to join. With this Meg Wolitzer makes her debut in YA fiction. Having read and loved The Interestings, her last adult novel, I knew I had […]

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Just One Evil Act

Catherine — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:18:42 +0000

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is not a woman well-known for her fashion sense or healthy living. Neither is she able to keep her mouth shut when she disagrees with what is being said—no matter who is saying it. What she has in excess is loyalty and when a dear friend’s daughter is taken away by […]

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Compound Fractures

Catherine — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 02:00:32 +0000

The last couple of weeks have been big reading weeks. Intense reading weeks. Worth every minute and page but leaving me fairly drained. So when I saw that Stephen White had come out with a new Alan Gregory mystery in August I decided to break away and revisit a favorite character. Compound Fracturesis the […]

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