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The Bohemians: A Novel by Jasmin Darznik

Catherine — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 04:14:06 +0000

I was interested in Jasmin Darznik’s new novel The Bohemians for its premise about a woman in history I knew nothing about. Dorothea ‘Dorrie’ Lange is an American photographer. If, like me, you don’t recognize the name, this should help: Migrant Mother was taken at the height of the Depression and is considered an […]

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We Run the Tides

Catherine — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:59:53 +0000

I’m not sure it’s an actual publishing trend for 2021, but it’s fairly unusual for me to read three novels on the same subject in one year. In this case, it’s private girls’ schools—always fascinating to me, but to the general public? I guess so. In January, there was The Divines and this month, All […]

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Sourdough: A Novel by Robin Sloan

Catherine — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:19:56 +0000

September has already been a month of heavy (literally) reading. Namely, Ken Follett’s latest, which clocked in at a daunting 928 pages. It is one of those times when I have loved having an e-book because I have a tendency to fall asleep in bed while reading and a book like that could have […]

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Lucky Boy: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:18:48 +0000

Despite its upbeat sounding title Lucky Boy is a novel saturated in desperation. Desperation for a better life, desperation for a child, for success…for happiness. Solimar is eighteen, lives in a dying town in Mexico and with money her parents procure she leaves with a man who is supposed to get her to California […]

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How to Party with an Infant

Catherine — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:16:08 +0000

At twenty-eight Mele Bart finds herself as a single mother, because after giving birth to daughter Ellie her boyfriend Bobby tells her he was “kind of engaged” to someone else. What?! Not one to wallow and with a infant to care for, Mele moves on. In an effort to have some kind of life […]

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Frog Music: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:00:16 +0000

In 1876 San Francisco was engrossed in the story of Jenny Bonnet, a young woman found murdered in a small town outside the city. She preferred wearing men’s clothes and made her living catching frogs to sell to restaurants. Author Emma Donoghue found her equally compelling and made her murder the subject of her new […]

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Belle Cora

Catherine — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:05:54 +0000

I know a man who had a colossal stone mansion dismantled to be taken by sea from New York to California, with every block labeled and numbered so that the house could be reassembled at its destination. Whenever in my life I have moved a great distance to a new place and new circumstances, […]

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