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Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson

Catherine — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 04:18:42 +0000

Regardless of where you live, if you love the art and artifacts of human history, then you’re probably familiar with Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I lived in NYC it was one of my favorite places to go and explore. Where you could sit on a bench for as long as you wanted and look […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:50:24 +0000

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 family and friends flung across America, but all the people who have lost their jobs, the […]

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May Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 07:06:49 +0000

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 idea how I managed this but somehow, I read A Rule Against Murder, book 4 in […]

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Children of the New World: Stories

Catherine — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:02:15 +0000

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 election, these stories are not real, but they are brilliant in their take on how we’ll be living in the not-so-distant future. And, […]

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The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

Catherine — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:55:43 +0000

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 an abstract art of a novel. It comes out in paperback tomorrow so if you missed […]

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The Tsar of Love and Techno

Catherine — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:23:41 +0000

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 whose artistic skill is such that his sole purpose is to erase people deemed to be enemies of […]

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A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

Catherine — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:44:58 +0000

When I think of Michael Cunningham many things about his writing come to mind: poetic, compelling… so many adjectives, and yet funny is not among them. Not that he is dark or his writing is without joy, but until I read his newest book, a series of short stories called A Wild Swan, he’d never made […]

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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 07:25:22 +0000

This month’s It’s Not You, It’s Me is especially true because I am not really liking, much loving, anything I’ve read. In fact I DNFed (did not finish) 3 books in a row, which is a first for me. There are any number of bloggers who have blamed this syndrome on the novel A Little Life, […]

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Of Things Gone Astray

Catherine — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:14:38 +0000

Magical realism is the moving force behind author Janina Matthewson’s, Of Things Gone Astray, an enchanting novel about the everyday realities of life. In it she follows six different people in London who wake up one day to find that something important in their lives has disappeared. For Mrs. Featherby it is the entire front […]

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Let Me Be Frank With You

Catherine — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 08:00:54 +0000

Frank Bascombe is back in Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank With You and I, for one am happy to see him again. Ford’s last novel, The Lay of the Land, covered Bascombe’s travails through his mid-fifties in a way that perfectly encapsulated the middle-age process of fight and accept. In Let Me Be […]

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