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Posted December 01, 2021in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘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 November 03, 2021in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘Comfort Me with Apples’ This is not an easy book to review. The pervading, intensely creepy feeling established from the first page of this short novella never diminishes. In fact, [...]

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Posted October 06, 2021in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘A Spindle Splintered’ If you’ve been following along, you’ll have likely caught on to my addiction to fairy tales, myths, timeless stories of all varieties. So it’ll be no surprise [...]

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Posted September 01, 2021in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘She Who Became the Sun’  Some stories are so old and so human that they feel like a part of our DNA. Fables, faerie tales, myths. Reading this book felt [...]

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Posted August 04, 2021in Book Review

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‘Black Sun’  I have been aching for a vacation lately. A universal feeling, it seems these days. If you’re like me and can’t get away just now, then I have [...]

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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 June 02, 2021in Book Review

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‘We Are Watching Eliza Bright’  Advance warning: This is not an easy read. Both in structure and in subject matter, Osworth demands a lot from readers, but it is worth [...]

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Posted May 05, 2021in Book Review

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‘Burning Girls and Other Stories’ Fairy tales, myths, fables… there is a lot of power hidden in innocuous stories. The kind of power that Veronica Schanoes wields like a torch [...]

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Posted March 31, 2021in Book Review

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‘Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking’ African-American influence is felt but rarely seen in so many aspects of modern American life, and nowhere is this more evident [...]

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Posted March 03, 2021in Book Review

Book Reviews

‘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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