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Eighteen Acres

December 11, 2011 – 4:54 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores From a Washington Post review (because I can’t say it any better), “To say that Nicolle Wallace’s “Eighteen Acres” is one of the best novels I’ve read about life in the White House may be faint praise — there haven’t been many good ones — but her book is both an enjoyable [...]

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A Visit From The Goon Squad

June 18, 2011 – 11:42 am

Shop Indie Bookstores I stuck with this one, just because I kept thinking I would learn to ‘come to care about the characters’ as the book blurbs on the back page. Not so. In fact, I had to read a book review AFTER reading the entire thing, just to understand what it was that I [...]

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

May 6, 2011 – 4:47 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores Quirky I like and Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake certainly fills that bill.  This is a strange little fable like story about Rose Edelstein, her family and how Rose copes with a sudden ability to taste people’s emotions in the food they fix. Not a good thing as we [...]

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The Hunger Games

April 6, 2011 – 5:37 am

Shop Indie Bookstores I steered away from this book for a bit since it is a Young Adult novel. I’m so glad I finally came around: The book tells the story of teens forced to fight in the ‘Hunger Games’–a gruesome to-the-death game that leaves only one remaining. It centers around 16 year-old Katniss Everdeen [...]

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