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Trust Exercise

Catherine — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 07:38:24 +0000

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 is about teens attending a dramatic arts school, which sounds like The Ensemble, a novel I loved. […]

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Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:37:08 +0000

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 of her father. Because her father, a well-regarded history professor has begun forgetting things, to the point of being asked […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 07:47:46 +0000

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 book, but by and large consistency was not the name of the reading game […]

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Good Wives: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:05:50 +0000

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 throughout the ages. I recently read two new novels with wives as the focus: one that […]

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The Beautiful Bureaucrat

Catherine — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:55:08 +0000

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 about The Beautiful Bureaucrat, author Helen Phillips has to be commended for writing one of the most immersive novels […]

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The Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating

Catherine — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:27:04 +0000

While still in her early twenties, Claire Jenks married Charlie Byrne, renowned sexology author and twenty-three years her senior. For ten years she gave up her own writing career to support his fame. One morning as he is walking home from his mistress’s apartment he is killed by a bronze statue that falls from […]

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Autobiography of Us

Catherine — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:54:59 +0000

For all my careful work I had never learned to mask the dread I felt at every turn…fear that any of one of my many failings would be discovered and I would be sent, like an orphan from one of my childhood novels, back to the dull world I’d inhabited before Alex came along. […]

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