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Book Review:: A Summer Affair | Elin Hilderbrand
I used to avoid books like A Summer Affair. Books marketed distinctly as ‘beach reads’. I thought they would be quick, light, shallow romance tales of people…
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Book Review:: The Correspondent | Virginia Evans
A novel to move you. Sybil’s life is as complex and nuanced as the next, and as someone who corresponds best through the written word, we get…
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Book Review:: We All Live Here | Jojo Moyes
We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes is a raw, emotional, and realistic story of a family that has fallen apart and is only functioning through strategic…
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Book Review:: The Seven O’Clock Club | Amelia Ireland
What does it take to earn a five-star rating? Is it simply capturing and holding your attention? Is it making you feel things down deep in the…
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Book Review:: Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame | Olivia Ford
Bake off, but make it bookish! Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame is the cozy adventure of a lithe septuagenarian ready to take a little piece of the…
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Book Review:: Eight Hundred Grapes | Laura Dave
Timing is everything, and who knows that better than a wine maker? I’m learning that lesson again from Eight Hundred Grapes. I read it once before in…
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Book Review:: Promise Me Sunshine | Cara Bastone
One does not simply move on when their best friend dies. The friend who has been by their side through every important milestone in their life. The…
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Book Review:: When We Grow Up | Angelica Baker
Looking for a book that hits on every hyper-zennial political and culture topic there is without actually giving any substance to any of it? Man, I hate…
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Book Review:: Beartown | Fredrik Backman
For most, hockey is just a sport, but for one little town deep in the forests of Sweden, it is everything. For the first time in decades,…