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    Book Review:: The Homemade God | Rachel Joyce

    July 7, 2025

    Something I am coming to terms with about myself is that I am absolutely lost over a good family saga. Seriously send me all of your recommendations…

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    Book Review:: The Accidental Favorite | Fran Littlewood

    June 24, 2025

    A tree falls in the woods, and all three of your adult children are standing beneath it. You dive forward to remove one from danger, but the…

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    Book Review:: The Night We Lost Him | Laura Dave

    June 17, 2025

    I’m coming to realize that Laura Dave is one of my favorite authors right now. She’s an excellent atmospheric writer. The tone of her books is clear…

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    Book Review:: My Friends | Fredrik Backman

    May 11, 2025

    I don’t think there are adequate words to describe the feeling I had when I saw that I was approved for an advanced copy of Fredrik Backman’s…

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    Book Review:: The Summer of You and Me | Denise Hunter

    April 19, 2025

    One day Maggie is at the fair with her young daughter and swears she sees her husband among the crowds. Trouble is, he was killed in the…

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    Book Review:: The Correspondent | Virginia Evans

    April 15, 2025

    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:: Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame | Olivia Ford

    April 8, 2025

    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

    April 4, 2025

    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:: Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty

    March 21, 2025

    Cause of death, age of death. Would you want to know? For some on one fateful domestic flight between Hobart and Sydney the prediction from one of…

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    Book Review:: When We Grow Up | Angelica Baker

    February 18, 2025

    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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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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