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The Mere Wife: A novel

August 2, 2019

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Just out in paperback, this was a novel I loved and thought deserved a lot more attention.   Maybe every monster is a miracle meant to change the world... Author Maria Headley dives into ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, literary, Picador, retellings

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

January 12, 2018

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    Telling you that Christopher J. Yates’s new novel, Grist Mill Road, is about a boy who ties up a girl and shoots her forty-nine times with a BB gun while his friend watches is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: contemporary life, Harper, mini-reviews, mystery, Picador

Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman

January 25, 2017

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  Well, well, well…finally, after two months of all-right-but-not-great reading I’ve been knocked off my feet. Not by a new release, but by a 2013 novel from my Goodreads to-read list. I’m not ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, childhood, coming-of-age, contemporary life, literary, Picador, social issues

Children of the New World: Stories

September 26, 2016

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  If this election season isn’t freaking you out enough about the future of America, then you need to read Alexander Weinstein’s short stories, Children of the New World. Thankfully, unlike this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: dystopia, Picador, science fiction, short stories

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

April 8, 2016

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It happens in personal relationships and it happens with reading: A book simply does not hold my interest, float my boat, whatever metaphor you want to use. But if the writing is good I’m reader ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, cultural, Hogarth, Picador

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