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Tag: award winners

Book Cover Native Son by Richard Wright
Book Reviews, Books, Justice Posted onJuly 22, 2020July 23, 2020

Book Review :: Native Son

I first read Native Son in college. (That’s my copy in the photo.) And while I know I read it – there are highlights, notes […] Read More

Virtual Book Pitch
Book Clubs, Books Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020

Book Clubs :: Virtual Meetings Continue, Book Pitch Long List

April is “book pitch month” for our book club, where each member will pitch 2 or 3 books for our next year’s reading. This time, it was virtual!

Six Books to help you Shelter-In-Place
Book Reviews, Books Posted onMarch 29, 2020March 29, 2020

Six Books to Help You Shelter-In-Place

If you’re one of the many who has been told to shelter-in-place during the COVID pandemic, then this is a pretty good time to catch […] Read More

How many of these books have you read?
Book Clubs, Books Posted onMay 30, 2019October 15, 2019

Book Award Winners :: How Many Have You Read

How many of these books have you read? List challenges abound on social media from the BBC to BuzzFeed and even PBS. The groups of […] Read More

A History of Loneliness
Book Reviews, Books, Justice Posted onSeptember 10, 2018

Book Review :: A History of Loneliness

The History of Loneliness by John Boyne was an interesting book to be reading right now. Boyne is best known for The Boy in the Striped […] Read More

An American Marriage
Book Reviews, Books, Justice Posted onMay 10, 2018June 8, 2019

Book Review :: An American Marriage

I’ve been mulling over this review of An American Marriage for a while, wanting to write it in a way that does it justice. To […] Read More

Middlesex Perfume East of Eden
Book Reviews Posted onMay 5, 2018July 6, 2018

Book Reviews :: My Kind of Beach Read

It should be obvious from the title that what I consider a wonderful beach read is not what most people call a “beach read.” For […] Read More

World War II novels
Book Clubs, Books Posted onMarch 18, 2018April 30, 2019

Book Clubs :: WWII Novels

There is a rash of World War II literature. In our last book club annual selection long list, there were enough books that had we […] Read More

Amor Towles
Book Clubs, Books, Out and About, Podcast Posted onMarch 13, 2018July 8, 2018

Meet the Author :: Amor Towles

Amor Towles wrote Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow – two of my favorite books from last year. When I learned that he […] Read More

Top 100
Book Clubs, Books Posted onMarch 4, 2018July 8, 2018

Book Favorites :: Top 100

A few years back, my book club put together its collective Top 100 Books. I remember in that exercise, that I had a hard time […] Read More

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Thunderstruck & Other Stories
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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