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Review of The Elements by John Boyne
Advance Reader Copy, Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Featured, Headline Posted onMarch 30, 2025March 30, 2025

Book Review :: The Elements

With The Elements, John Boyne delivers another masterfully crafted story, rich with complexity and nuance—just like life itself. Told in four separate yet interconnected narratives, […] Read More

Book Review of The Evening Shades
Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews, Books, Featured, Headline Posted onMarch 22, 2025March 22, 2025

Book Review :: The Evening Shades

I was just a few pages into Lee Martin’s The Evening Shades when I felt its similarities to Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night. And […] Read More

Brief Book Review of I'll Come to You
Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews, Featured, Headline Posted onJanuary 22, 2025January 23, 2025

Book Brief :: I”ll Come to You

I’ll Come to You by Rebecca Kauffman takes readers through a year in the life of one family —spanning from post Christmas 1994 to Christmas […] Read More

Book Review of Like Mother Like Mother includes book club discussion questions
Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews, Featured, Headline Posted onJanuary 3, 2025January 3, 2025

Book Review :: Like Mother, Like Mother

In Susan Rieger’s recent novel, Like Mother, Like Mother, three generations of women grapple with what it means to be a woman: wife, mother, and […] Read More

Book Review for Tell Me Everything
Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews, Featured, Headline Posted onSeptember 10, 2024September 10, 2024

Book Review :: Tell Me Everything

There are some authors whose work you can’t help but return to, and for me, Elizabeth Strout is one of them. Her newest novel, Tell […] Read More

Brief Review of Death at the Sign of the Rook
Advance Reader Copy, Book Reviews, Featured, Headline Posted onJune 22, 2024June 24, 2024

Book Brief :: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

Death at the Sign of the Rook is Kate Atkinson’s sixth installment of her Jackson Brodie series and fans of her work will love it. […] 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

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

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