Tag: fiction
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Atmosphere Review — Taylor Jenkins Reid
I went in expecting something almost comedic — a thriller with a wink. What I got was something more grounded and more uncomfortable, and a quiet portrait of what women in the 50s and 60s actually lived through.
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What Happens in Amsterdam Review — Rachel Lynn Solomon
I went in expecting something almost comedic — a thriller with a wink. What I got was something more grounded and more uncomfortable, and a quiet portrait of what women in the 50s and 60s actually lived through.
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The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives Review — Elizabeth Arnott
I went in expecting something almost comedic — a thriller with a wink. What I got was something more grounded and more uncomfortable, and a quiet portrait of what women in the 50s and 60s actually lived through.
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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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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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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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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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