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Lenia is a mermaid princess blessed with family, a beautiful voice, and a glorious home in the sea. On her eighteenth birthday she is allowed one overnight visit to the world above before she returns home to live out the rest of her 300 years. By chance on her day out, she comes across a [...]
On My Shelves The Provence Cure For The Broken-Hearted: A Novel, by Bridget Asher Galore: A Novel, by Michael Crummey Wishlist Blind Sight: A Novel, by Meg Howrey The Girl Who Would Speak For The Dead, by Paul Elwork Expiration Date: A Novel, by Sherril Jaffe
Jen and I are reading The Uncoupling, by Meg Wolitzer in preparation for a chat with the author about her book and its themes on the What’s Old Is New Podcast. The Uncoupling tells the story of what happens in the sexual relationships of the couples of Stellar, New Jersey when a drama teacher new [...]
I am slowly getting back into reading again. About three weeks ago I went down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a little fun in the sun. Apparently that fun in the sun didn’t include reading any books. Four of them had a round trip ticket from New York to Florida and escaped being opened once, [...]
Welcome to BOOK CLUB, a joint venture between me and Jen from Devourer of Books. Today we are going to be chatting about Picking Bones From Ash, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett which was published this month by Graywolf Press. Picking Bones From Ash tells the dual narratives of Satomi a gifted pianist struggling in pursuit of goals that [...]
On My Shelves The Raising: A Novel, by Laura Kasischke Seven Years: A Novel, by Peter Stamm My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, by Cindy Jones Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy), by Lauren DeStefano On My Wishlist Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason, by Anne Roiphe Every Day By [...]
Next week we will be discussing Picking Bones from Ash, by Marie Mockett (on Tuesday, March 22), but in the mean time our next BOOK CLUB selection, brought to us by Other Press, is Galore, by Michael Crummey. Publisher’s Description: When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, [...]
Lady Victoria Mansfield, or Tory, as she prefers to be called, has been raised with the knowledge that magic and the mages who practice it are dangerous and beneath the nobility of which she is apart. When she wakes up one morning evidence of her magical abilities she is horrified and vows to keep it [...]
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