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Ask Not by Maureen Callahan

Catherine — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:54:48 +0000

Reams of paper have been expended in dissecting the Kennedys in all their tragedy and fame. Now, author Maureen Callahan joins the fray with a knockout punch in Ask Not. The book’s subtitle is The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, but in case Callahan’s being too subtle this is a scathing exposé about the […]

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Rabbit Heart

Catherine — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:14:10 +0000

But doubting our terror is what we’ve been trained to do. Imagine being eight years old and awakened on what should be a normal school morning by your father and older brother sitting on the side of your bed. They tell you that your mother has been kidnapped and your father cries. This is where […]

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July Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:49:13 +0000

Hello, lovely readers! I’m sorry for my absence at the end of July but a whole lot of life—some of it very happy, some of it not so much—got in the way of my reading and reviewing. The happy was a family wedding and the not-fun was experiencing COVID for the first time. Wow. Even […]

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April Reading Recap

Catherine — Thu, 02 May 2024 07:54:19 +0000

Is it the year? The authors? Me? Or some depressing combination of all three? I don’t know, but my April reading was as hit or miss as the Seattle weather. Just when you think you’ve read every horror story about the opioid epidemic there’s more. Prescription for Pain is an investigative look into the […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:53:02 +0000

My March reading is a wrap, but I have a question: would you rather have highs and lows in your reading or a steady diet of good? You can probably guess where I’m going with this. I ended the month on a streak of 3.5 star books, most of which I can hardly remember reading. […]

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In Light of All Darkness

Catherine — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:46:33 +0000

The Polly Klaas kidnapping and murder in California was thirty years ago, but is still known today as the event that changed how the criminal justice system responds in child abduction cases. Kim Cross documents the aftermath of the Klaas kidnapping alongside the actions of investigators, police, and the FBI in her new book In […]

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A Fever in the Heartland

Catherine — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:15:03 +0000

I had little idea what to expect when I picked up Timothy Egan’s new book, A Fever in the Heartland. I knew it was about the Ku Klux Klan, but its subtitle seemed a bit dramatic: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. It actually proved to […]

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The Many Lives of Mama Love

Catherine — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:53:04 +0000

It’s a picture-perfect Saturday in Northern California with soccer parents lining the field and watching their kids play. As the game winds down most mothers go to retrieve their young, but Lara Love hangs back. And surreptitiously lifts cash out of a wallet in one of the handbags left behind in the stands. She moves […]

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The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

Catherine — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:47:04 +0000

I love books about art, whether they’re fiction or nonfiction so Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief was an easy reading choice. It’s the true story of a modern day art thief in France and is a heady combination of both fiction and nonfiction in that it’s true, but reads with the pace and plot twists […]

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March Reading Recap

Catherine — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:10:11 +0000

March has been a month of extremes. There was no middle ground to my reading. I had six books four stars and higher, but I also had four books I didn’t finish. This could be due, in part, to the fact that I overcommitted on books to read for March. Where I might normally push […]

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