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October Reading Wrap-Up

November 1, 2017

October

Goodbye, October! This was another one of those months where, when I looked up it was the 20th and I had no idea where the days went. Is that an age thing? Because I never used to notice it so much. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: 19th century, England, historical fiction, lists, mini-reviews, Southern life

Miss Jane by Brad Watson

July 12, 2017

miss jane

Summer is generally a time when I enjoy lighter books, those that don't take up too much brain space. Sometimes, though, it’s also lovely to disengage from all the activity, find a shaded space and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, family, literary, Southern life, W.W. Norton

How to Survive a Summer

June 21, 2017

survive

  Will Dillard’s film studies dissertation is making his life miserable because he can’t seem to finish it. In fact, finishing anything after the summer he spent at Camp Levi when he was ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Blue Rider Press, coming-of-age, social issues, Southern life

The Shore: A Novel by Sara Taylor

February 15, 2017

shore

  The Shore by Sara Taylor may qualify as one of the most unusually formatted books I’ve read in a long time. Take a family tree composed of over fifty members, stretching from the 1850s to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: family saga, historical fiction, Hogarth, literary, social issues, Southern life

The Second Mrs Hockaday

January 9, 2017

second mrs hockaday

  Placidia is seventeen when she meets Major Hockaday and when he proposes that very same day she says yes. That he is a widower and has a small son makes little difference to her. It’s 1865 and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Algonquin Books, Civil War, debut, historical fiction, marriage, mystery, Southern life

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