Tag: Book Review
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2022 Reading Roundup
This is my 2022 reading roundup where I reflect on and share the stand-out books from last year’s reading life.
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Book Review: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
A rollicking young thing of a book, sowing wild ideas in the mind about how we can learn to live with–and love–those who are as unlike us as the fey.
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Summer Reads: A- Grade for City of Girls
I’ve never been one for alcohol hangovers, but Those Damn Books that leave behind book hangovers…they’re worth it.
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A Spate of Book Reviews: Uprooted
From love and admiration to shame and envy, the story incorporates the idea that acknowledging human emotions is one key to accomplishing great things with the lives and talents we’ve been given.
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Pride and Prometheus: The Post-Perusing Depression of Great Novels
I finished a fantastic book for my Jane Austen book club today. Pride and Prometheus was supposed to be my “reward” for getting work done. But I read a little bit during breakfast–I just wanted to get to the end of the chapter I fell asleep on last night–and I couldn’t make myself put it…
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Book Review: Eligible
If you’re one of the people in my life who wonders what all the fuss is about—why anyone (sometimes it seems everyone) still reads the six slim novels written by Jane Austen—Curtis Sittenfeld, a smart, funny, parent has written the delightful novel Eligible to show you why. Eligible follows all the characters you’d expect to find…