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The Book of Everlasting Things

Catherine — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:03:40 +0000

The Book of Everlasting Things is a multigenerational debut spanning the globe from India to Europe. Initially set in Lahore, India in the 1930s and 40s the novel encompasses 70 years in the lives of one Hindu boy and one Muslim girl. Two children, who despite different backgrounds, grow into love only to have it, […]

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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

Catherine — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 04:48:05 +0000

It’s May 1940, but Hitler is already on the move, invading and collecting countries like Monopoly properties. In Great Britain, Prime Minister Chamberlain has lost the confidence of his party and is going to be replaced. It is a momentous time in the world and in British history. Winston Churchill fulfills his lifelong dream of […]

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November Reading Wrap-Up

Catherine — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:12:09 +0000

November- what a month! I made it from Seattle to Ann Arbor and had a fabulous time driving across country. All our belongings showed up intact and on time with only a few hiccups. We’re still unpacking, organizing, and dealing with the ‘our furniture doesn’t fit in this space’ confusion. And getting hit with an […]

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The Only Woman in the Room

Catherine — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:29:38 +0000

For those of you who aren’t old movie buffs…why not?! Old black and white movies with all their stylized glamour are one of the best escapes out there. But I digress. If you’re not aware of Hollywood in the 1930s then you won’t recognize the subject of Marie Benedict’s new novel The Only Woman in […]

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Love and Ruin by Paula McLain

Catherine — Mon, 07 May 2018 07:15:32 +0000

It wasn’t bravery when you did what you had to do. Paula McLain’s novel, Circling the Sun, was one of my favorites of 2015, largely because she portrayed Beryl Markham so well as a woman who wasn’t content to follow the norms of her times—get married, have children—but who understood that the only way […]

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Above the East China Sea

Catherine — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:03:40 +0000

How has he not had it drummed into him that brats don’t whine? We don’t plead. We don’t need. We require nothing. Not even real roots. We’re air ferns. In Sarah Bird’s new novel Above the East China Sea the island of Okinawa is the centerpiece of a multi-generational drama that plays out […]

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The Nightingale

Catherine — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:57:25 +0000

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah begins with Viann Mauriac, living comfortably in a small town in the south of France with her husband and daughter. Her younger sister Isabelle is in one of the many boarding schools their father has sent her to. When she is expelled again she goes to live with him in Paris, […]

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Ending October: Mini-Reviews

Catherine — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:27:37 +0000

October was a massive month in book publishing and I was fortunate enough to read some amazing new releases (The Goldfinch, We Are Water, The Signature of All Things). With my focus on works of such depth and intensity some of the novels that did not move me to the same degree got ignored. Here […]

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