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Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

Catherine — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:03:12 +0000

Sloane, Ardie, and Grace are all well-paid, director level lawyers at an athletic apparel company in Dallas. Their boss, Ames, is a high-powered executive about to be promoted to CEO. Each of them has been subjected to inappropriate behavior on his part so when they learn about an anonymous spreadsheet with the actions and names […]

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Girls Burn Brighter

Catherine — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 07:09:45 +0000

One of the reasons I love to read is that it offers me a chance to see places on the page (and in my mind) that I’m not likely to see in real life. Just as importantly it exposes me to experiences and lives utterly different from my own. Last month my first five-star […]

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The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Catherine — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 07:11:50 +0000

When Joan Ashby is in her early twenties she is acclaimed as a writer to watch. Her short stories win awards, she is interviewed and profiled, and all await her first novel. She knows this is her one true gift and so even when she marries Martin, a man she loves deeply, it is […]

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It’s Monday, August 21st: What Are You Reading?

Catherine — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 07:24:16 +0000

I can’t start this post by saying it’s just another Monday. Here in Seattle the sun is going to be 95% obscured by the moon. Kind of crazy if you think about it. I’ve read all sorts of things about what happens. Not the mystical end-of-world things, but that in the natural world it […]

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Tornado Weather: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:29:07 +0000

The town is Colliersville, Indiana, but it could be any number of small towns scattered across the United States. Towns where, as the jobs get smaller, the economic disparity gets bigger. This is where Deborah Kennedy chooses to set her debut novel, Tornado Weather and it’s the epitome of the tinderbox that is America right […]

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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 24 May 2017 07:04:36 +0000

In a surprising bit of synchronicity, I read two great novels recently that both referenced Shakespeare—which is why the quote from Macbeth for this post’s title. Also, because there is a lot of wicked in both these novels. In New Boy, Tracy Chevalier adapts the very grown-up themes of Othello to 1970s elementary school. […]

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Fake Plastic Love

Catherine — Thu, 18 May 2017 07:55:43 +0000

After almost five years of writing about books I kind of thought I’d seen it all. Not literally or in every way, but I firmly believed that plot and prose were inextricably intertwined. The best prose couldn’t save a bad plot and vice versa. Today I have to back off that belief because I […]

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