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Thrilled to Death: Siracusa and Dear Mr. M

September 21, 2016

thrilled

This is the type of post that should wait until Halloween, but honestly who wants to wait for reviews of the kind of reading that keeps you up all night? Here are two recent releases that fit the bill ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Blue Rider Press, Hogarth, Italy, marriage, mystery, thriller

July Reading Wrap-Up

August 1, 2016

Based on the calendar I know it was summer, but the only way I believed it was hearing from friends and family how they were melting away in intense heat. Seattle hovered in the 60s or lower for most ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Reading Tagged: books, library, lists, marriage, mini-reviews, movie, thriller

Unbecoming

December 2, 2015

unbecoming

  Unbecoming follows a young woman named Grace from present day Paris to New York City and even Garland, Tennessee, slipping back and forth as her story and life unspool. In Paris, she is not even ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, thriller

The Water Knife

June 3, 2015

water

Those places had dreamed of being different from what they were. They’d had aspirations. And then the water ran out, and they fell back, realizing too late that their prosperity was borrowed, and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, dystopia, Knopf, science fiction, social issues, Southwest, thriller

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