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Against the Loveless World

September 4, 2020

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Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa is about Nahr, whose name means “river”, in Arabic. She has been in solitary confinement for 16 years in a cell she calls the Cube somewhere in modern-day ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, literary, Middle East, war, women

Text Me When You Get Home

August 28, 2020

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Today is the last of my summer nonfiction reviews, but it’s a bit unusual. It’s only partially a review of Text Me When You Get Home and mostly a rumination on all the thoughts the book brought me. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Non-fiction Tagged: book clubs, friendship, women

Rodham: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld

May 20, 2020

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Seldom has there been a public figure more scrutinized, disparaged, and talked about than Hillary Rodham Clinton. You might think it’s the price to be paid for entering politics, but the level of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, literary, politics, women

Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin

May 14, 2020

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No one could be more surprised than me to be back again this week with another slower paced, character driven novel, but here I am. Gail Godwin’s Old Lovegood Girls is the story of Feron and Meredith ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Bloomsbury, book clubs, friendship, historical fiction, literary, women

April Reading Recap

May 1, 2020

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What to say about April? That I had very little clue the month was ending because I’m lucky if I can remember what day of the week it is? That, despite having nowhere to go I read fewer books this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: literary, mini-reviews, mystery, thriller, women

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