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July Reading — It Was a Good Month!

July Reading — It Was a Good Month!

Surprise! I’m back with my list of July reading, and I’ve done it by the fourth of August. Would have had it posted yesterday, in fact, but Google/Blogger has introduced (read: imposed!) some changes that…

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May Reading

May Reading

I began this post a week ago Monday, but then found myself unable to complete it. I’ve spent the ten or twelve days since debating whether I’ll continue blogging at all, wondering about the value…

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Spring Reading. . . .Mystery to Memoir to Anti-Racism, Istanbul to New York City. . .

Spring Reading. . . .Mystery to Memoir to Anti-Racism, Istanbul to New York City. . .

After reading Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Ali Smith’s Spring last month, both wonderful, even important, books. . . but emotionally and mentally demanding. . . I enjoyed the palate-cleansers noted in the photo above: Mick…

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Introducing New-To-Me Writers: Elif Shafak and Bernardine Evaristo

Introducing New-To-Me Writers: Elif Shafak and Bernardine Evaristo

January has been a good month for reading discoveries. I began the year with two books in a row by authors previously unknown to me and whose backlists I will happily work my way through…

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Reading Fireside? A Dozen Titles for You. . .

Reading Fireside? A Dozen Titles for You. . .

 Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…

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