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Three Days in June
Three Days in June: A Novel
by Anne Tyler
Ordinary Family, Complicated Lives (12/4/2024)
I loved this book, as I do all of Anne Tyler's work. This story is not a deep or complicated read, but instead a focus on the everyday lives of a family working through an important event. The setting was an ordinary one, but as happens in life, the day to day stuff gets …more
Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
by Nadine Bjursten
Choices Make All The Difference (3/26/2024)
I was immediately drawn in by the first paragraph in chapter 1 - a young woman making a choice - and the choices she makes continue throughout the whole book, just as they do for all of us during our whole lives.

Though this story revolves around an Iranian woman's choices …more
Help Wanted
Help Wanted: A Novel
by Adelle Waldman
A Much-Needed Look at Who Surrounds Us (1/9/2024)
Dreams and options, hopes and frustrations exist in so many forms for this group of skillfully characterized employees in a retail chain store. The details of both their lives and their work are written with compassion and deliver the reader into a largely unknown and …more
The Stone Home
The Stone Home: A Novel
by Crystal Hana Kim
The Stone Home continues the spotlights provided by Nickel Boys and A Council of Dolls (11/8/2023)
As hard as it is to acknowledge and accept the reality of recurrent instances of intentional, institutional human to human cruelty and carnage across our world, the talented authors who bring them to light offer a deeper and realistic understanding of these devastating …more
The Wren, the Wren
The Wren, the Wren: A Novel
by Anne Enright
Three generations of women and their poet - an enticing serpentine novel (8/6/2023)
The Wren, The Wren is a captivating and beautifully written, but strenuous, book to read, with its non-linear format and frequent use of no conversational quotation marks. The opening of the book drew me in, a psychology expert's study on the ways people think, and the book …more
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