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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

March 2, 2020

road

You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. A man and his young son are walking on a desolate road surrounded by burnt trees and ashes. In the distance fires still ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, dystopia, horror, literary, Pulitzer Prize, science fiction

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

October 21, 2019

olive

Olive Kitteridge is a woman in her 60s, living in a small town in Maine, who has something to say about everyone and most of it is not good. She is also the character at the center of Elizabeth ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: literary, midlife, New England, Pulitzer Prize

5 Star Week: All the Light We Cannot See

April 12, 2017

light

  I may be writing this review to watch myself write because virtually every reader I know has already read Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. Ostensibly, my excuse is, this Pulitzer ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: coming-of-age, France, Germany, historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize, Scribner, WWII

The Goldfinch

October 21, 2013

goldfinch

  Donna Tartt’s latest novel is The Goldfinch. Oh My. This is a B.I.G. book, figuratively (Tartt’s first novel in eleven years) and literally (weighing in at a dense 771 pages on paper that is as ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: art, book clubs, literary, Little Brown and Company, New York City, Pulitzer Prize

Darker: The Orphan Master’s Son

May 29, 2013

The Orphan Master's Son

  By its very nature dystopian fiction is dark but Pulitzer Prize winning The Orphan Master’s Son is not technically dystopian. It is set in North Korea, which exists (as we are all too aware ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, cultural, Pulitzer Prize, Random House, Southeast Asia

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