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The Visionist

January 13, 2014

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In The Visionist: A Novel, Polly Kimball, her brother Ben and her mother are running for their lives. After her drunken father passed out on his bed, Polly accidentally dropped an oil lamp in his room ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, Little Brown and Company, mystery, religion

Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?

October 10, 2012

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I missed Rhoda Janzen’s first book, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home so jumping into her newest book, Does This Church Make Look Fat?, was a bit like going to a new high ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, Grand Central Publishing, medical, memoir, religion

The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

July 14, 2012

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  Was it The Rapture or not? This is the launch point for Tom Perrotta’s new novel The Leftovers and his take on the possibly apocryphal event is so well done it’s one more reminder to me that ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, dystopia, fantasy, literary, religion, St. Martin's Press

The Dovekeepers

July 11, 2012

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  I’ve read enough Alice Hoffman to believe that she is one of the world’s best writers about women. Her plots may be fantastical but even as her female characters behave in magical and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, Middle East, mythology, religion, Simon & Schuster, women

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