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Writers & Lovers by Lily King

Catherine — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 05:18:18 +0000

Everyone knows the writer’s life is not an easy one. For 31-year-old Casey it feels almost impossible. Her mother died suddenly, her boyfriend is gone, she’s working two jobs, and she lives in a space that used to be a potting shed. She wants to write a novel, but after six years has made little […]

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The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora

Catherine — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:10:17 +0000

The Paper Wasp is the story of two young women living in small Michigan town who were best friends. Up until high school that is, when Elise was discovered and left town for L.A. to become an actress. In losing her popular best friend, Abby floundered and even though she ended up as valedictorian she never […]

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Virgil Wander: A Novel by Leif Enger

Catherine — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 07:18:31 +0000

Greenstone, Minnesota is a hard luck little town. Once known for its taconite mines it has settled into a slow decline when Virgil Wander’s car goes over a cliff and into the lake one night in the midst of an unexpected snowstorm. He’s only alive because the local junkman was on the shore, dove in […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:14:15 +0000

Back for the first time in 2017, it’s the It’s Not You, It’s Me review extravaganza. All right, maybe not an extravaganza, but I do have two books I read recently that did not ring my bell but might be just right for other readers. Parallel stories of family, art, and loss are at the […]

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An Untamed State

Catherine — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:50:52 +0000

When Mireille Jameson returns to Haiti with her husband and infant son to visit her wealthy family she knows of the tensions between the island’s poor and its rich. What she cannot anticipate is that on their way to an afternoon at the beach a gang of men will stop their car, beat her […]

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The Undertaking: A Novel

Catherine — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 08:42:29 +0000

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of novels set in Berlin in the midst of World War II. Novels that document the trampling of many people’s lives into oblivion. Author Audrey Magee does not go the route of the victim or the innocent bystander. Instead, in her novel The Undertaking we meet Peter Faber, a […]

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The Sympathizer: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:10:57 +0000

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead. It is only fitting that the narrator in The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, is never […]

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