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March Reading Recap

March 30, 2020

march reading

Well, of all the things I thought might happen this March I could never have come up with where we are now. I'll spare you the contents of my brain churning with the anxiety I have not only over ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: contemporary life, family, memoir, mini-reviews, short stories

May Reading Recap

June 1, 2018

May

No other way to put it: May was a lovely month. Both the weather and my reading kept me charmed. There were a few misses, but overall it was my best reading month this year.   I have no ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: lists, mental health, mini-reviews, mystery, short stories

Children of the New World: Stories

September 26, 2016

children of the new

  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

The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

July 20, 2016

tsar of love

I could not pass up the opportunity to share the love again for a book that I adored. I'm not a big short story reader, but Marra connects the dots so well that The Tsar of Love and Techno reads like ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Hogarth, literary, Russia, short stories

The Tsar of Love and Techno

March 7, 2016

tsar of love

  For art to be the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer.    The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1937 Leningrad with a nameless censor. A man ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, historical fiction, Hogarth, Russia, short stories

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