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Contemporary U.S. Literature

British, Contemporary U.S. Literature, fantasy

Books I Did Not Finish

September 5, 2020

For the Summer 2020 edition of Things I Started and Stopped, I’ve got three books. First up is Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. When this book first came out…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature, Drama, Queer Literature

The Great Believers

August 16, 2020

Ambitious novel set in two different time periods–1980s Chicago during the AIDS crisis and 2015 in Paris–with characters, timelines and plots that converged, but sometimes in confusing ways. The novel…

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Children's Literature, Contemporary U.S. Literature, Young Adult Fiction

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

August 1, 2019

Absolutely fantastic story about a middle-school-aged girl born with no arms getting through life. It’s a first-person narrator with a wry tone and wonderful sense of humor. She’s adopted, and…

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Beyond the Bright Sea
Contemporary U.S. Literature, Young Adult Fiction

Beyond the Bright Sea

June 10, 2019

A friend brought this for my daughter (8), but the book is too “mature” for her, in both plot and style. It’s a pretty good story, a coming-of-age tale about…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature, Drama, fairy tale

Winter Garden

December 27, 2018

God save me from women writers who hate their female leads. There must be some term for this–oh wait, Adrienne Rich calls it male-identification. In her essay on “Compulsory Heterosexuality,”…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature

The Christmas Box

December 13, 2018

Sentimental crap. Don’t bother.

Contemporary U.S. Literature, Drama, Queer Literature

Choir Boy

November 18, 2018

Reviews of the play call it a coming-of-age story, but it’s too brief a blip in time to really be a bildungsroman. The play is fast-paced, covering maybe a year…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature

Everything I Never Told You

August 6, 2018

This novel was picked for the first-year program’s common read at my university. So of course I also imposed this as a common read pick for the three-family beach-house week…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature

The Mothers

March 14, 2018

This was one of the best novels I’ve read in a very long time. I thought it would be about women struggling with infertility (provenance of mistaken belief: a half-listened…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature, crime fiction

Camino Island

February 17, 2018

Camino Island, by John Grisham, definitely felt like a guilty pleasure. I listened to it, for the neighborhood book club, while driving around town for a few weeks. It’s the…

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