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August Reading Wrap-Up

August 30, 2017

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Good bye August and goodbye summer! I complain a fair bit, but here is one thing that I absolutely loved about this summer in Seattle. We only had maybe three days all told when it got above 90°. The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: Bloomsbury, Dutton, historical fiction, lists, Manhattan, mini-reviews, Other Press

Guapa: A Novel

March 21, 2016

guapa

  At 27 Rasa lives with his grandmother in al-Sharqiyeh, a large city in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. He works as a translator for foreign journalists because he speaks fluent English ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, literary, Middle East, Other Press, social issues

A Well-Tempered Heart

January 24, 2014

well tempered heart

Not all explicable things are true. Not all truths are explicable. Such an unusual combination: ghost story and love story and yet, in A Well-Tempered Heart it works. Julia is a successful ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Other Press, Southeast Asia

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