Monday, April 25, 2022

The other widow, by Susan Crawford

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  This is an entertaining, although completely implausible, thriller focusing on three women at the center of this mystery surrounding the d...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Original sins: a memoir, by Matt Rowland Hill

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  Hill’s heart-wrenching, emotional tale begins with a sordid account of his drug use at the funeral of a close friend before he takes the...
Monday, April 11, 2022

One amazing thing, by Chitra Divakaruni

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  I really enjoyed this short (220 page) novel by Chitra Divakaruni. A random group of people are trapped in a visa office in an Indian cons...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner

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  I loved this memoir by Michelle Zauner, a Korean American writer and musician, about her relationship with her mother. As Zauner exits a d...
Friday, April 1, 2022

I used to live here once, by Miranda Seymour

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  Jean Rhys is best known as the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, a 1966 prequel of sorts to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, in which Rhys used he...

Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid

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  Two people fall in love in a country that is on the verge of civil war. When things heat up and become dangerous, Saeed and Nadia take the...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Listening well: bringing stories of hope to life, by Heather Morris

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Morris, bestselling author of novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka’s Journey , and Three Sisters , shares the listening skills and p...