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Book Reviews: A Visit From the Goon Squad, A Fortunate Age

Image via Wikipedia Sometimes you read a book because you’ve chosen it specifically, and other times, books land serendipitously into your life. Recently, my mother passed on a book she’d missed in her...

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Review: Back to Blood

The first Tom Wolfe book I ever read was The Bonfire of the Vanities, which I pulled off my grandfather’s bookshelf one December afternoon. I was too young then to see what cutting satire Wolfe...

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Review: The Alienist

The Alienist by Caleb Carr My rating: 3 of 5 stars A historical murder-mystery set in the late 1800s New York City, The Alienist is certainly engrossing, but I felt some missed potential here to...

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Review: Fin & Lady

In a recent Top Ten Tuesday over at The Broke and the Bookish, the topic was Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc. What a intriguing challenge, right? But I couldn’t come up with...

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