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Necessary People: A Novel

November 14, 2019

ten

It always seems as if being the friend of a really wealthy person would be fun—going expensive places, but never having to pay, exotic vacations, great gifts. But it never plays out that way in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: friendship, Little Brown and Company, new adult, New York City, wealth

A Door in the Earth

September 20, 2019

door

Parveen is like most young women her age—graduating college, but not sure what she wants to do with her degree in medical anthropology. Until she reads a memoir, written by a man who goes to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, contemporary life, cultural, literary, Little Brown and Company, Middle East, war

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

November 23, 2018

pale

  I didn’t finish The Pale King. I tried. I really tried, but it is like a 400-level college English class—for majors only. And it's almost 600 pages. The fact that it’s ostensibly about ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, literary, Little Brown and Company

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

November 14, 2018

house

Halloween may be over but the advancing winter weather still makes a perfect backdrop for creepy reading. Last week I wrote about Killing Commendatore, a Japanese novel that was oddly unsettling, but ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: horror, literary, Little Brown and Company, mystery, New England

Summer Fun Non-Fiction: Mini-Reviews

June 25, 2018

summer

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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: essays, health, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Little Brown and Company, mini-reviews, Random House

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