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Commonwealth, A Novel

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I’ve always remembered how much I liked Ann Patchett’s writing; Bel Canto and Truth & Beauty both touched me deeply and so I didn’t hesitate to pick up her new book when I saw it in my local bookstore. What a delight; everything I love about ...

Memories from my bookshelf

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Sometimes unread books on a bookshelf are as good as a diary entry to jog the memory. You look at the spine of a novel you bought twenty years ago at the Strand bookstore in New York. You were with so and so that day. You hadn’t seen them for a long ...

Coming Home

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There is something so comfortable and warm about settling in with this book. It’s the writing, the characters, the setting, the pace of the story—it’s heart and soul slowly but surely coming to life, taking you through an experience that seems so ...

Eternity’s Trap

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History is an amazing reality. We can learn so much just by looking back at what has come before, and how similar our lives really are to people from long ago. Or how different! If a storyteller can make history come to life we are in for a real ...

The Signature of All Things

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How to capture a journey? Because this novel is definitely a journey through a long-ago and far-away world, one that becomes more and more familiar as you read on, and more involving and moving and fascinating. It begins simply enough, but builds up ...

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me

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When I heard about this book, I made a note of it and carried that note with me for many months. It did not appear on the shelf; I had to special order it and then surprised myself by reading it in just a few days. Usually I keep a pile of books for ...

The Last Days of Dogtown

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I just finished a wonderful book, The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamant, written in 2005. I read it in two days; actually one night and the next day. What an emotional experience. Not obvious at all, but just perfect story-telling. I am in awe ...

Once I Was A Debutante

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I transcribed my mother’s autobiography thirty years after she wrote it, and nearly twenty years after she died. She says she didn’t start out to write about “her whole damn life” but I guess it just spilled out; she was never shy about expressing ...