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Books 2013 – The Light Between Oceans
One of my goals this year is to try to read 50 books. Note the keyword in the sentence is “try.” The closest I have come to 50 is around half that number in past years. But anyway, the first one I...
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Books 2013 – Triburbia
The second book I’ve read this year is Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld. Like many books these days, Triburbia is written in what I like to call Welcome to the Good Squad style. It reads less like a...
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Books 2013 – The Midwife of Hope River
When I was pregnant with our first child, Manfrengensen admitted to me that he could only hear the word “placenta” so many times. Based on that admission, I am going to go out on a limb here and tell...
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Books 2013 – News from Heaven
It has taken me so long to pull my thoughts together about this wonderful collection of short stories by Jennifer Haigh. News from Heaven is basically about a collection of characters from Bakerton,...
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Books 2013 – The Snow Child
Right off the bat, I should tell you that The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey is not the kind of novel that I usually read. I have trouble with “magical” tales. With the exception of the Harry Potter series,...
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Books 2013 – Short Reviews of Three Reads
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout is a wonderful writer. She’s best at constructing characters, and then pulling them apart, showing them (and us) that they aren’t who they thought...
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