I picked up Stash by David Klein on a coworker’s recommendation. It quickly pulled me in and kept me turning pages, even though it’s not the sort of novel I tend to gravitate towards. Here’s the premise: Gwen, a 30-ish mother of two and wife of a successful pharmaceutical company marketing guy, is looking forward …
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Thoughts on “Girl in the Arena” by Lise Haines
I picked up a galley of Lise Haines’s Girl in the Arena at last year’s Book Expo America. Fresh from devouring The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, I was looking for something to fill the void until its sequel was released. When a rep at the Bloomsbury booth handed me Girl in the Arena and said, “It’s the …
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Thoughts on “Countdown” by Deborah Wiles
I just (like, 5 minutes ago) finished reading a new young adult novel from Deborah Wiles called Countdown. It’s set in the 1960s, which is not usually something that piques my interest, and it didn’t this time. What grabbed me, made me pick the book up and add it to my TBR pile, was its …
May Audiobook Favorites: Margaret Atwood & Sherman Alexie
So I’ve been on an audiobook kick lately. They make cleaning, cooking, and driving more enjoyable, and I’d rather listen to them while knitting than watch TV. I’ve gone through a whole slew of them in the past month, but three stood out as my absolute, recommend-them-to-everyone favorites. First up is a YA novel written …
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Thoughts on “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie is a slim volume, coming in under 200 pages, but it does not feel short or insubstantial. Rather, it seems to me to be a study in how to write a novel that contains precisely what it must contain to achieve the author’s endpoint and nothing …
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