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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:18:43 +0000

These days it seems it’s harder and harder to get anyone to agree on anything so why should books be any different? What is different is that we’re nicer people so sometimes I’m able to admit—It’s Not You, It’s Me when I don’t like a book. In this case, one book left me puzzled and […]

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Summer Fun Non-Fiction: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:19:44 +0000

As you well know I’m not a big non-fiction reader, but between friends’ recommendations and my library’s awesome Peak Picks program (brand new releases available without a hold list), I came across these three books that covered all my non-fiction needs. I have always cringed at movie critics who say a movie “made […]

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Lost Women: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 31 May 2017 07:20:14 +0000

First of all, despite the mood of the graphic, there’s no need for concern (it’s not me!). I chose the photo because it’s evocative of today’s books. I read A Line Made by Walking and Chemistry over a month apart, but for as different as they are they both revolve around women who have lost […]

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Salt Houses: A Novel

Catherine — Mon, 15 May 2017 07:24:08 +0000

There are plenty of times when fiction ventures into territory that is unfamiliar—in fact, that’s one of the reasons I love it so much. But Salt Houses, the debut novel from Hala Alyan is about a subject that I almost can’t wrap my mind around. The fact of having been driven out, by force or […]

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It’s Monday, April 17th: What Are You Reading?

Catherine — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:35:09 +0000

Another Monday, a new week and a new start to my reading. I’m not going to get all pessimistic, but my April reading has been less than stellar so far. Lots of reading, but not a lot of things that I loved so much I couldn’t wait to share them. Backlist, previously released books, continue […]

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Mr. Splitfoot: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:07:40 +0000

A wild ride of a novel, Mr. Splitfoot, is of that class of fiction so creative it can hardly be categorized. This is a positive and a negative because it’s subjective enough that a reader will either be highly entertained or completely turned off. Somehow, I fell into both groups. I got the book […]

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Bellweather Rhapsody

Catherine — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 08:18:08 +0000

Remember the movie The Shining? If so, forget what you thought about it in relation to Stephen King’s book and just recall its many amazing visuals. Now, turn it into a campy musical, turn it back into a novel and you have Kate Racculia’s Bellweather Rhapsody. Set in the Catskills in early November with a […]

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The Queen of the Night

Catherine — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:28:15 +0000

Alexander Chee’s new novel, The Queen of the Night works well for cold winter reading because you will need to settle in to really enjoy this massive piece of entertainment. This is not a book to skim through, like any grand diva, attention must be paid. And this Chee does by creating a world […]

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Under the Udala Trees

Catherine — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:18:28 +0000

In Under the Udala Trees Ijeoma is only twelve years old when the civil war in Nigeria begins and her mother must leave her behind while she tries to establish a life for them in the north, a safer part of the country. It is 1968 and they live in Biafra, a southern state […]

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Dietland: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:06:52 +0000

Once I had a taste of real food, I always wanted more. I spent my days tiptoeing around food, the way one might tiptoe into a baby’s room while it’s sleeping. One wrong move and the baby wakes up and screams. That’s how it was with hunger, too. Once it awakes, it screams and […]

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