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A Good Neighborhood

Catherine — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:24:18 +0000

I’ve enjoyed Therese Anne Fowler’s historical fiction for years, especially her novel Z, about Zelda Fitzgerald. So, I was interested to see what she would do with a novel about contemporary American life—a topic that provides more extravagant fodder every day as the social divisions in the country continue to expand. A Good Neighborhood hits at […]

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You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks

Catherine — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 04:54:31 +0000

Shay is not where she thought she’d be at 31. She thought she was getting promoted at work and got laid off. She thought she and her roommate, Sean were moving out of the friend zone and into something more, but now he’s got a girlfriend. And now, right in front of her eyes, a […]

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Been There, Married That

Catherine — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:31:37 +0000

What happens when powerful, high profile Hollywood producers decide their old wife is tired and they want a younger model? We all know the answer, as does Gigie Levangie, the former wife of uber-Hollywood exec, Brian Grazer. They may have been divorced for decades but Levangie has been successfully mining her private life to write […]

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Thrilling Reading: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 07:10:33 +0000

Sometimes the mood strikes for thrilling reading. It’s not a genre I look to often, but in the beginning of the year it felt like the only kind of reading that satisfied me. Maybe because if it’s done right it can be great reading without being great? I’m not sure, but I tore through these […]

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A Well-Behaved Woman

Catherine — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:04:41 +0000

The Vanderbilt family is one of the great success stories in American history. Author Therese Fowler picks up the line with the third generation in her novel, A Well-Behaved Woman. The woman in question is Alva Smith—a 21-year-old with a perfect pedigree, but no money. Teetering, in fact, on the edge of outright poverty, until […]

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How Hard Can It Be?

Catherine — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:27:53 +0000

You know how sometimes you see a trailer for a movie and it is fantastic, then you go see the movie and realize all the best bits were in the trailer? The cover for How Hard Can It Be? is like that. Every woman I know who’s seen it has laughed out loud, but does that […]

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Where’s an Editor When You Need One?: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:08:27 +0000

We’ve all read novels by authors who have a way with words, know how to shape a sentence, generate tension…all the good stuff, right? But what about when that good stuff keeps going and going until what felt like a perfect balance turns into words and plot piling on unchecked? I’m left either annoyed […]

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The Coincidence Makers

Catherine — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:05:26 +0000

He always loved this warm sensation, which nearly permeated the bone, during the minute preceding the execution of a mission. It was the sensation that came from knowing he was about to reach out a finger and nudge the planet, or the heavens. The knowledge that he would be diverting things from their regular […]

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The Great Alone

Catherine — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:56:50 +0000

Well, this is a little bit awkward. I’m one of the hordes of readers who raved about Hannah’s last book, The Nightingale, and yet I have to report that with only 80 pages left (out of over 400) I abandoned her latest, The Great Alone. I had simply gone as far with the novel […]

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The English Wife by Lauren Willig

Catherine — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:12:26 +0000

At a time when much of my reading seems centered on dystopia, trauma, or pathos it’s welcome to read a novel that is simply enjoyable. No hard thinking or difficult emotions to process, just a well-constructed story that you can settle into. It isn’t as easy as it sounds because often this kind of book […]

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