Books
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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About Review — Isabel Klee
This felt like a modern-day Girls or Sex and the City — but with characters you actually root for. I always wanted to live in NYC in my 20s and never got to. Isabel let me experience that life vicariously, even if a decade late. I started crying on page 91 — the moment Sweet…
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Piglet Review — Lottie Hazell
Book Review — Lottie Hazell This is the kind of book I want to exist. I wanted to love it. I didn’t. Piglet covers a lot of ground — self-discovery, class systems, sexism, ambition, purpose — and it does all of it through the lens of an eating disorder. The main character copes through binge…
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Strangers Review — Belle Burden
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…
