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The Other Typist

Catherine — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:58:54 +0000

Suzanne Rindell sets her novel The Other Typist in 1920s New York City where Rose is one of a new kind of working woman, earning her living as a typist for the police department. She is an orphan living a quiet simple life despite working in a job that exposes her to some of […]

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Everything I Never Told You

Catherine — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:41:39 +0000

Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You is the story of the Lee family. They live in Ohio where the father James is a professor and wife Marilyn stays at home and raises Nathan, Lydia, and Hannah. This is the Rockwell painting version but within those broad strokes there is the kernel, the seed […]

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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

Catherine — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:05:15 +0000

Apparently, I’m getting all adventurous and flexible in my old age. Penguin Books was kind enough to send me a new anthology of crime fiction short stories. Crime? Short stories? Neither is a genre I read. I don’t look down on them either, but there are only 24 hours in a day. So, it was […]

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What the Nanny Saw

Catherine — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:21:39 +0000

What the Nanny Saw is not the first book to look at the insular and dysfunctional world of nannies and the uber-rich but it may be the first to delve into that life as the employers are on their way down. Ali Sparrow is taking a year off from school to earn enough money […]

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Sometimes a Great Notion

Catherine — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:26:59 +0000

When I learned that Ken Kesey grew up in Oregon I thought I was long overdue to read one of his books. I had seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and didn’t think I needed to revisit that subject so I opted for his second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion. The story is set in Oregon logging country in […]

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City of Women

Catherine — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:24:10 +0000

The grandpa just stares backward at a world that no longer exists, or forward to a world beyond his comprehension. For Sigrid Schröder her life in 1943 Berlin is one of grinding tedium, working days as a stenographer and spending nights in a small apartment with her mother-in-law and withdrawn husband. Her only escape is […]

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