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Canonical?, Young Adult Fiction

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

August 18, 2018

A former student of mine, let’s call her “Madison,” insisted I read this book because it’s her favorite book and she reads it annually. This is a lot of pressure…

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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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Contemporary U.S. Literature, mystery

All the Missing Girls

October 27, 2017

Another pick from the neighborhood book club. LikeĀ Gone Girl but with the innovation of narrating the story backwards. So you get the protagonist, an unsympathetically drawn woman from a small…

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Contemporary U.S. Literature

The Whole Town’s Talking

August 23, 2017

This has to be the whitest book I’ve ever read. Flagg’s newest (?) novel chronicles the evolution of Elmwood Springs, MO, from it’s origins as a Swedish immigrant farming settlement…

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