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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

January 13, 2023

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Anyone else remember the good old days of Sidney Sheldon, Penny Vincenzi, Nelson DeMille, any of those authors who wrote massive novels that were so stuffed with plot you couldn’t stop reading? Maybe ... Read More...

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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

November 14, 2022

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Barbara Kingsolver is back with Demon Copperhead, a serpentine tour-de-force set in the southern Appalachian Mountains. A modern-day David Copperfield, the novel follows Damon Fields from his ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, coming-of-age, literary, retellings, social issues, Southern life

Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

November 9, 2022

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Carlotta has had a time of it. She was sent to prison for 23 years because she was holding a gun nearby when someone was murdered. Worse, when she got there, she was a young man who knew he was meant ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, contemporary life, literary, social issues

NSFW: A Novel

September 9, 2022

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I recently read NSFW a debut from Isabel Kaplan and I’m fairly certain my visceral reaction to the novel is a response becoming more and more common to me and to many of the women I know given recent ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, new adult, social issues, women

Nightcrawling: A Novel

August 22, 2022

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At a time when most teenage girls are busy with dating, hanging out with friends, and choosing colleges, 17-year-old Kiara is facing a rent increase that is likely to render her homeless. She lives in ... Read More...

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