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Version Control

February 26, 2016

version control

  Author Dexter Palmer eases the reader into his new novel Version Control with an unspecified time in the future where we have cool things like cars that drive themselves so that even if your ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: mystery, Pantheon, science fiction

The Stargazer’s Sister

January 18, 2016

stargazer's sister

Much of Caroline Herschel’s life is spent alone with her angry, unhappy mother, working as little better than a slave for a woman who has never shown her any interest or kindness. As a young girl she ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 19th century, book clubs, historical fiction, literary, Pantheon, women

The Household Spirit

June 17, 2015

In The Household Spirit, on a rural road in upstate New York, there sit two identical houses inhabited by two people who are anything but identical. Howie Jeffries is fifty-years old and has lived ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: literary, magical realism, Pantheon

Emma: A Modern Retelling

April 13, 2015

  Alexander McCall Smith takes a turn at adapting Jane Austen in his newest novel, Emma: A Modern Retelling. Don’t call for the smelling salts diehard Austen fans, he does not commit the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, England, Pantheon, retellings

The Moor’s Account

September 15, 2014

moors account

And thus it was done. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: 16th century, book clubs, historical fiction, Pantheon

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