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The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

April 4, 2022

candy house

  Not every story needs to be told. Easy-to-digest reading has been a nice break lately, but I was happily pulled back into literary fiction with Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House.  Set in a time ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, literary, science fiction

Into the Drowning Deep

November 17, 2021

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I’ve officially reached the point in the year that my reading is what I call free range. I still have two books left to read that release in 2021, but by-and-large I’m reading whatever catches my eye ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: horror, science fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

September 20, 2021

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At long last, author Anthony Doerr, whose last novel, All the Light We Cannot See is one of my all-time favorite books, has come out with a new novel. Massive in its scope, Cloud Cuckoo Land covers ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: historical, literary, science fiction

Fast Fiction: Mini-Reviews

May 20, 2021

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  Fast fiction may sound like a pejorative, but I don’t mean it that way. Sometimes, particularly after deeper literary fiction I’m happy to jettison character development and lyrical prose for ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: mini-reviews, mystery, science fiction

The High-Rise Diver: A Novel

April 14, 2021

high rise

A young woman, strong and proud, stands on the top of a high-rise thousands of feet tall. Below her a crowd chants her name and yells for her to jump. She does, plunging to within inches of certain ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, dystopia, literary, science fiction

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