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July Reading Wrap-Up

August 1, 2023

July

Goodbye, July. It was a busy month of travel, family reunion, and not-so-fun adulting, but overall there was some great reading to be had amongst the gorgeous weather here in Seattle. I’m sorry for ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: essays, literary, magical realism, mini-reviews, mystery

Juno Loves Legs

July 26, 2023

juno

With a personality as incendiary and out of control as her flaming red hair, Juno bursts onto the pages of Juno Loves Legs like a wildfire. She and Legs, her best friend, live in a housing estate in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 1980s, Ireland, literary

The Rachel Incident

July 21, 2023

rachel

Rachel is working in London as a journalist when an unfamiliar man throws out a name from her past that catapults her back to her university days. From this modern-day beginning author Caroline ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, friendship, Ireland, literary

Such Kindness: A Novel

June 13, 2023

kindness

I’ve been craving pace in my reading lately so am surprised to be here with an introspective novel spanning only a few days and very little action. Set in present-day Massachusetts, Such Kindness by ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, literary, social issues

Yellowface: A Novel by R.F. Kuang

May 29, 2023

yellowface

I’ve contorted the truth into such ways that I can, in fact, make peace with it. THIS. BOOK. Yikes. Ostensibly, Yellowface is about June Hayward, an aspiring writer who has quietly seethed as her ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, literary, mystery, social issues

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