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5 Fall Thrillers: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:29:11 +0000

As the fall weather settles in and Halloween approaches what better time to discuss thrillers? The kind of books that make you settle into a favorite chair with a hot drink while it’s grey and rainy outside. Given that new releases have been a bit flat this year, I’m mixing up my reviews with three […]

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Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor

Catherine — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:21:03 +0000

To say that I am a huge fan of Tim Gunn is an understatement. In the same way that a Chanel suit is on my bucket list (as revealed last week when I reviewed Mademoiselle Chanel) so is a week spent in New York City with Gunn reworking my style and taking me shopping for […]

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The Undertaker’s Daughter

Catherine — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:01:41 +0000

Kate Mayfield takes readers into the world of her childhood in The Undertaker’s Daughter, a memoir that combines the unique circumstances of growing up in the 1960s in a small town in Kentucky while living above a funeral home. Through her we learn about a life and family held tight by the rituals of death. […]

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Monday January 12th: What Are You Reading?

Catherine — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:55:27 +0000

It’s the second Monday in January but feels more like the beginning of the year. Or maybe I just wish it was because, two weeks in and I’m not being bowled over by anything I’m reading. At the end of the year, I was reading a book that rocked me so hard (Vanessa and Her […]

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The Troop: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:52:05 +0000

Gross, gooey, and well…yucky, and those are the positive adjectives if you’re a horror fan. Nick Cutter’s The Troop goes exactly where squeamish people don’t want to go and does so in a way that if you’ve started the novel makes you unlikely to stop. When the nastiness appeared after less than thirty pages I wondered how […]

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Mrs. Poe

Catherine — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:05:07 +0000

Mrs. Poe is author Lynn Cullen’s fictional look at the relationship between American poet Frances Osgood and Edgar Allen Poe, told from Osgood’s point of view. The novel opens in Manhattan with Osgood trying to sell some of her poetry, as her portrait painter husband has abandoned her and their two daughters for a wealthy […]

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Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible

Catherine — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:56:45 +0000

For those who know me, my objectivity in reviewing Tim Gunn’s new book Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible, is likely to be called into question as I have made numerous not-so-subtle remarks about my deep admiration for the author (visit to Portland, summer reading). Think what you will, but I am not exaggerating to say […]

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