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It’s a Mystery: Mini-Reviews

July 27, 2016

mystery

  My timing may be off for conjuring all things creepy and mysterious, but somehow these three books found their way to me in the last month and I didn’t want to delay sharing them. And ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Grand Central Publishing, mini-reviews, mystery, social issues, St. Martin's Press, suspense, Touchstone

Terrible Virtue

April 15, 2016

terrible virtue

  Margaret Sanger is well-known as the founder of Planned Parenthood and the first advocate of birth control and family planning for women in the U.S. Ellen Feldman’s novel Terrible Virtue ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Harper, historical fiction, social issues, women

The Sellout: A Novel

March 28, 2016

sellout

  How do you review a book when you’re not quite certain that you should or even that you should have been allowed to read it? This was the question in my mind after finishing Paul Beatty’s The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary fiction, cultural, Farrar Straus Giroux, humor, pop culture, satire, social issues

Guapa: A Novel

March 21, 2016

guapa

  At 27 Rasa lives with his grandmother in al-Sharqiyeh, a large city in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. He works as a translator for foreign journalists because he speaks fluent English ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, literary, Middle East, Other Press, social issues

February Library Checkout

February 29, 2016

april library

  Month 2 of 2016 wraps up tomorrow and what a month it’s been. You would think that with this extra day I’d be overflowing with creativity and verve, but instead I’m in some kind of mucky ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, library, lists, mini-reviews, social issues

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