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‘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 September 01, 2021in Book Review
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
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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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Posted December 02, 2020in Book Review
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‘A Deadly Education’ Is anyone sick of reading about schools of magic? No? Excellent, because this is the best one yet. Naomi Novik already has a well-deserved reputation for compelling [...]
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