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Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 05 May 2021 04:24:16 +0000

Sorrow and Bliss opens after Martha and her husband Patrick have returned from a party he threw for her 40th birthday. It did not go well and two days later Patrick says he’s leaving. It’s both an ending and a beginning for Martha as she grapples with what to do next in a life that […]

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October Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 05:38:51 +0000

Goodbye, October. A part of me feels as if posting this recap is silly, given what lies ahead tomorrow, but maybe it will provide you with a bit of distraction. October turned out to be a big reading month—I finished 16 books and DNFed two at the 50% mark. I rated nine books four stars […]

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Ask Again, Yes

Catherine — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:21:05 +0000

This post may include Amazon links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Ask Again, Yes is a complex family story that begins with the lightest of connections. Brian Stanhope and Francis Gleeson are two young men from Ireland who begin their careers as cops together in New York City. They move to the […]

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The Betrayals by Fiona Neill

Catherine — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:10:30 +0000

A seemingly happy marriage has cracks that shatter one summer when two families vacation together on the Norfolk coast. Two families with best friends at their center. Rosie and Lisa have known each other since they were teenagers so it was wonderful that their families aligned so well. Right up until Lisa has an affair […]

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May Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 07:06:49 +0000

No other way to put it: May was a lovely month. Both the weather and my reading kept me charmed. There were a few misses, but overall it was my best reading month this year. I have no idea how I managed this but somehow, I read A Rule Against Murder, book 4 in […]

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Heart Berries: A Memoir

Catherine — Wed, 09 May 2018 07:00:07 +0000

It’s hard, as a reviewer, to say you loved a book or felt deeply touched by it, but that you’re not sure you understood a lot of it. And by understand, I mean, literally, the facts. This is the case for me regarding Terese Mailhot’s memoir, Heart Berries. The emotion of it gripped me. The […]

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The Great Alone

Catherine — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:56:50 +0000

Well, this is a little bit awkward. I’m one of the hordes of readers who raved about Hannah’s last book, The Nightingale, and yet I have to report that with only 80 pages left (out of over 400) I abandoned her latest, The Great Alone. I had simply gone as far with the novel […]

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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Catherine — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:49:14 +0000

Turtles All the Way Down is my first experience with John Green and it left me mostly with…nothing. On the one hand, I applaud him for writing such an unsympathetic character, but on the other, I didn’t want to read about her. Her is Aza, a teenager with severe OCD. She has a loving […]

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Shelter in Place

Catherine — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 07:31:56 +0000

Alexander Maksik doesn’t waste any time getting to the meat of his new novel Shelter in Place. The first chapter is a small paragraph introducing Joe March with three facts: his mother beat a man to death with a hammer, he fell in love with a woman named Tess and he battles a black weight […]

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The Time in Between

Catherine — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 07:02:08 +0000

This is the final review from my recent mental health reading and it was easily the most difficult because it’s non-fiction. The Time in Between is Nancy Tucker’s memoir about her life from the time she was a little girl until present day, with the focus on her teen years. Her life changes at […]

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