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Tag: literary fiction

Book Brief on Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Book Reviews, Featured, Headline Posted onMay 1, 2024May 1, 2024

Book Brief :: Prophet Song

After just a few pages into Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, I didn’t think it was for me. This was disappointing given how much I […] Read More

Book Review of Rabbit Run by John Updike
Book Reviews, Headline Posted onFebruary 8, 2024February 15, 2024

Book Review :: Rabbit, Run

I first read Rabbit, Run by John Updike in college and remember loving it. A year or so ago one of my best reading buddies […] Read More

Book Brief: Day by Michael Cunningham
Advance Reader Copy, Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books, Featured, Headline Posted onJanuary 26, 2024February 15, 2024

Book Brief :: Day by Michael Cunningham

While technically Day by Michael Cunningham will fall into the category of COVID pandemic fiction, this one was beautifully and uniquely constructed—three days in three years, stretching from 2019 to 2021. The same day on the calendar, so each is a year apart.

Book Review of Women and Children First
Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews Posted onJanuary 2, 2024January 2, 2024

Book Review :: Women and Children First

Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski is a beautifully written story set in a small Massachusetts town. It involves the lives of mothers, daughters, […] Read More

Wrap up of 2022-2023 Ratings
Book Reviews Posted onAugust 12, 2023August 12, 2023

Book Club :: Book Ratings for 2022-2023

Call us book snobs. It is a label we embrace. My book club’s book ratings from 2022-2023.

Book Review of The Pole by J. M. Coetzee
Advance Reader Copy, Book Clubs, Book Reviews Posted onJune 24, 2023June 24, 2023

Book Review :: The Pole

The Pole by J. M. Coetzee is at once moody and mysterious – full of tension. This novella centers around Beatriz and Wittold. She’s a […] Read More

Meet Abraham Verghese
Advance Reader Copy, Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books, Out and About Posted onMay 26, 2023May 26, 2023

Meet the Author :: Abraham Verghese

Last week when I was wrapping up my review of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, I saw that he was going to be […] Read More

Book Review of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Book Reviews Posted onMay 15, 2023May 15, 2023

Book Review :: The Covenant of Water

It has been 14 years since Abraham Verghese published Cutting for Stone, a book that easily ranks in my top five favorites of all time. […] Read More

Review of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books Posted onFebruary 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Book Review :: Anna Karenina

This may be less a book review of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as it is a reading review – as in, if you’re going to read it, this is how I’d recommend you go about it.

Review of the novel The Story of Lucy Gault
Book Clubs, Book Reviews Posted onJanuary 29, 2023January 31, 2023

Book Review :: The Story of Lucy Gault

The Story of Lucy Gault by Willam Trevor is a heart-wrenching story of love withheld because of guilt and misunderstandings. Ann Patchett recommended this book […] Read More

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