Normal People by Sally Rooney, long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, follows two protagonists, Marianne and Connell, beginning in their last year of high …
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Book Review – 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
1919 is the title of Eve L. Ewing’s collection of poems and the year of the Chicago Race Riots. Most of the poems begin with …
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August 26 is Women’s Equality Day commemorating the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote adopted in 1920 (can you believe it?) Here’s a …
Continue ReadingBook Review – The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns, translated by Matty Weingast
The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns is a translation by Matty Weingast of the Therigatha (Verses of the elder Nuns), poems …
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All Adults Here by Emma Straub is set in a small Northeast town about a dysfunctional family, with each dysfunctional member having his or her …
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Book Review – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (translated from Polish) is by Olga Tokarczuk, who won the Man Booker Award for Flights. The …
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