Category: Books
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The Divorce Memoir Everyone Is Talking About — And It’s Worth the Hype
Book Review — Belle Burden I went into this knowing nothing about Belle Burden. Truly thought she was just another person writing about their divorce. Then I found out about the Paleys and the Vanderbilts, and by then I was already too invested to care. The biggest criticism of Strangers — and you’ll see it…
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The Ending Writes Itself Book Review — Evelyn Clarke
Book Review — Evelyn Clarke Glass Onion and Murder on the Orient Express had a baby — and it felt like a fever dream. That’s the only way I know how to describe The Ending Writes Itself. Six struggling authors summoned to a private Scottish island to write the ending of a dead novelist’s final…
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Loved One Book Review — Aisha Muharrar
Book Review — Aisha Muharrar From the rave reviews I’d seen online I expected something that would hit harder. It didn’t, at least not immediately. The first half of this book went over my head — which, lately, seems to be a trend. I’ve been sitting with why, and I think I landed on an…
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Remarkably Bright Creatures Book Review — Shelby Van Pelt
Book Review — Shelby Van Pelt I was sitting at Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Bainbridge Island, reading this book, when a staff member told me the author was speaking at Elliott Bay. Of course I went. That’s how I found out Shelby Van Pelt is from the Pacific Northwest — and that Remarkably Bright…
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Wild Dark Shore Book Review — Charlotte McConaghy
Book Review — Charlotte McConaghy I picked this up on a whim from my library’s new releases shelf. The Goodreads reviews were promising — around 4 stars — and the plot sounded compelling enough. I wanted to like it. I really did. Wild Dark Shore reads like two separate books, and that’s both its strength…
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Heart the Lover Book Review — Lily King
Book Review — Lily King I went into this book thinking it would be a light romance I could easily blow through. I was wrong. The first 100 pages of Heart the Lover went in one eye and out the other. To be fair, work was consuming my life at the time and the only…
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A Guardian and a Thief Book Review — Megha Majumdar
Book Review — Megha Majumdar One of the most well written books I’ve read in recent memory — and I almost missed it entirely. A Guardian and a Thief is a simple story on the surface. But everything in it is written with such care that you feel the weight of every sentence. Megha Majumdar…
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The Non-Fiction Book That Made Me See Horror Films Completely Differently
Book Review — Eleanor Johnson A random TikTok sent me to the library waitlist for this one. Months later, I finally got my hands on it — and I was hooked within a few pages. I’ll be honest: I don’t like horror movies. Reading the descriptions of the films covered in this book scared me.…
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Margo’s Got Money Troubles Is Getting a TV Series — Read the Book First
Book Review — Rufi Thorpe I’d vaguely heard of Margo’s Got Money Troubles from various online book communities and only knew it was supposed to be funny. That’s all I went in knowing — and honestly, that’s exactly how I’d recommend you read it too. It was a pleasant surprise. The humor reminded me of…
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
Book Review — Sabahattin Ali I discovered this book the way so many others do — BookTok. I knew almost nothing about the plot, which turned out to be the right way in. It’s 1920s Berlin. A young Turkish man named Raif arrives to learn a trade (soap-making, of all things) and falls into a…
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