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‘An Education in Malice’ Is it weird that I wish I had been sent away to boarding school? I’ve read so many books about people having strange and fantastic adventures [...]
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‘A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?’ One of the many common rebuttals to the idea of humanity [...]
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Posted February 02, 2023in Book Review
‘From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing and Foraging on a Fragile Planet’
David Moscow was the kid who played the Tom Hanks role in “Big” before he got so. Jon is his dad, an ethics expert and asylum facilitator. This is no [...]
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Posted February 01, 2023in Book Review
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‘Pandora’ This cozy and atmospheric delight was just what I needed for a post-holiday mental vacation. Rich with historical details, copious references to Greek mythology and effervescent characters, this sweet [...]
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Posted May 04, 2022in Book Review
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‘Four Treasures of the Sky’ I just can’t get enough magical realism these days. Lucky for me, there’s a bit of a renaissance happening, and I get to indulge my [...]
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Posted December 01, 2021in Book Review
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‘Even Greater Mistakes: Stories by Charlie Jane Anders’ When life is busy, and my attention span is short, I turn to short stories to fill in the gaps of my [...]
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Posted June 30, 2021in Book Review
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‘Sorrowland’ This is a hard one to describe well without spoiling the story. Rivers Solomon is such a talented writer. This feels like a story within a myth within a [...]
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Posted March 03, 2021in Book Review
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‘Concrete Rose’ “The Hate U Give” was a certified sensation in the literary world, with good reason. With her characteristic realism and heart, Angie Thomas returns to the world she [...]
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Posted February 03, 2021in Book Review
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‘Solutions and Other Problems’ “It’s OK to not be OK” may as well be the anthem of the last 11 months or so. With her signature poignant, hilarious and painfully [...]
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Posted January 06, 2021in Book Review
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‘The Vanishing Half’ Desiree and Stella Vignes are inseparable identical twins growing up in the mid-20th century in a tiny town in Louisiana. As children, they witness the racially motivated [...]
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