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Normal People by Sally Rooney

Catherine — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:08:42 +0000

Marianne and Connell live very different lives in the same small Irish town. She has a wealthy family and a big house, but is an outcast at their school, while he is everyone’s best friend, a natural athlete, a good student. His mother cleans her family’s mansion, so he comes over every afternoon to pick […]

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Anatomy of a Miracle

Catherine — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 07:55:31 +0000

Cameron Harris is a patriotic young man who goes to Afghanistan and returns home paralyzed from the waist down after stepping on an IED. When Jonathan Miles’s new novel, Anatomy of a Miracle opens he is back in his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi living with his sister Tanya. Days are spent watching TV, smoking, taking […]

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The Heart’s Invisible Furies

Catherine — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:42:13 +0000

Cyril Avery’s birth was not a propitious one. He came into the world onto the floor of a tiny apartment, next to the unconscious body of his mother’s roommate, with the roommate’s lover lying dead on the stairs below. It was Ireland in 1945 and the roommate and the lover were also teens, but […]

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Beautiful Animals: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:52:33 +0000

But things settled down and flowed on, because it was the law of summers among the rich that the season of leisure should flow like a large and charming river. The imperative was to have a good time and float on the luminescent surface. Meet Naomi, a bored, twenty-three-year-old Brit vacationing on the beautiful Greek […]

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White Fur by Jardine Libaire

Catherine — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:32:21 +0000

Two weeks ago I wrote about The Heirs, a novel that surprised me by going well beyond its blurb to become a 5-star read. I had a similar surprise with White Fur by Jardine Libaire except it’s not the blurb that is surpassed, it’s the beginning of the novel itself—which is a much greater […]

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The Shore: A Novel by Sara Taylor

Catherine — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:29:14 +0000

The Shore by Sara Taylor may qualify as one of the most unusually formatted books I’ve read in a long time. Take a family tree composed of over fifty members, stretching from the 1850s to 2143. Close your eyes, throw a dart at the tree and wherever it land–that’s a chapter. So, even though […]

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Thrilled to Death: Siracusa and Dear Mr. M

Catherine — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 07:25:06 +0000

This is the type of post that should wait until Halloween, but honestly who wants to wait for reviews of the kind of reading that keeps you up all night? Here are two recent releases that fit the bill for fall creepster reading. Both involve death and one thrilled me. Although you never really […]

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The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

Catherine — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:55:43 +0000

I could not pass up the opportunity to share the love again for a book that I adored. I’m not a big short story reader, but Marra connects the dots so well that The Tsar of Love and Techno reads like an abstract art of a novel. It comes out in paperback tomorrow so if you missed […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 07:34:42 +0000

It happens in personal relationships and it happens with reading: A book simply does not hold my interest, float my boat, whatever metaphor you want to use. But if the writing is good I’m reader enough to admit: It’s Not You, It’s Me. I’ve always been a fan of South Asian authors so approached these […]

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The Tsar of Love and Techno

Catherine — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:23:41 +0000

For art to be the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad with a nameless censor. A man whose artistic skill is such that his sole purpose is to erase people deemed to be enemies of […]

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