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Trust Exercise

April 12, 2019

trust exercise

Susan Choi’s new novel, Trust Exercise is a polarizing book, with Goodreads reviews divided between 1 star and 5. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. I decided to hope for good, because the story ... Read More...

10 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, Henry Holt and Company, literary

Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

July 10, 2017

goodbye

  Rachel Khong's debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin begins with a young woman named Ruth making the trip home for the holidays and her mother asking her if she could stay for a while longer because ... Read More...

9 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Henry Holt and Company, humor, literary

March Reading Recap

March 31, 2017

March

  I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t tell lion or lamb about March all month. We had warm warms and cold colds. My reading kind of felt the same way. On the one hand I read another 5 star ... Read More...

12 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: Crown, Henry Holt and Company, mini-reviews, mystery, Riverhead Books, suspense

Good Wives: Mini-Reviews

August 12, 2016

There are Biblical verses, poems, and a plethora of folksy sayings about the value of a good wife or what it takes to be a good wife. There is also no shortage of wives as the mainstay in fiction ... Read More...

4 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, Henry Holt and Company, historical fiction, marriage, Russia, Thomas Dunne Books

The Beautiful Bureaucrat

August 28, 2015

beautiful bureaucrat

  The Beautiful Bureaucrat has been raved about and reviewed by almost every book blogger I know and discussed at The Socratic Salon so I’ll try and keep this brief. No matter what else I think ... Read More...

9 Comments
Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, Henry Holt and Company, mystery

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