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- Jun 20
Review of A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
ICYMI: Towles's closed-door tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel manages to be at times playful,...
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- Jun 19
Review of Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
ICYMI: The post-Depression-era city of New York is such a powerful presence in this story, it feels like a main character. I was taken by...
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- Jun 14
Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II
Tales of Brave World War II Women Other titles I considered listing here were the Bossy five-star read All the Light We Cannot See; The...
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- Jun 12
Review of Rednecks by Taylor Brown
In this mix of fictional and fascinating historical elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly...
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- May 21
Review of The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang
Quinn and Chang share an adventure- and danger-laden story of women artists, women of color, and women of various social classes in San...
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- Apr 30
Review of We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
Grodstein tells a poignant, powerful story of the Warsaw Ghetto--of making a life within its prison walls and of finding resistance and...