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Book Review: The Shoemaker’s Wife
This is a clean, sweeping saga of marriage, hard work, family, Italian Opera, friendship and love. The story begins...
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Book Review: Joy for Beginners
A few years ago I reviewed this author’s "School of Essential Ingredients." When I saw she had a new...
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Book Review: Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
I had seen this book in my book catalogs so when it showed up on a library’s new book...
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Book Review: Arcadia
I read this new fictional account of a hippie commune because there was a time when I read a...
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Book Review: I’ve Got Your Number
This somewhat trite romantic comedy was the perfect antidote to the other book I was reading simultaneously... the one...
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Book Review: Strength in What Remains
I knew precious little about the genocide in Burundi, so when I saw this true story written by an...
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Book Review: The Red Book
This novel utilizes hypothetical "red book" entries to introduce characters returning to Harvard for their 20th reunion. The whole...
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Book Review: State of Wonder
I liked this book, regardless of the fact that it takes place in the pharmaceutical industry and has some...
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Book Review: Age of Miracles
This novel had a very unique premise: the earth’s rotation begins gradually to slow down. Each day is longer...
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Book Review: Sketchbook Confidential
I’ve read through this book slowly, a couple of page spreads at a time: each artist featured here had...
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Book Review: The White Tiger
This is an eye opening novel of corruption and oppression in modern day India. The protagonist cannot free...
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Book Review: The Cookbook Collector
This was an easy, entertaining read about hunger and acquisition during the dot.com bubble of a little over a...