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    Book Review:: Girls Our Age | Pheobe Thompson

    May 9, 2026

    This psychologically intense story of female friendship was kind of like a fever dream, if I’m honest. Lily, Ana, and Margot have been friends since they were…

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    Book Review:: The Irish Goodbye | Heather Aimee O’Neill

    September 26, 2025

    I love me a good family drama, and The Irish Goodbye by debut author Heather Aimee O’Neill was no exception. When families come together for holidays, it…

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    Book Review:: The Greatest Possible Good | Ben Brooks

    July 13, 2025

    Most people do not live their lives according to their own values. They say they do, they say they support certain things or care about them, but…

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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 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:: Intermezzo | Sally Rooney

    February 28, 2025

    I am perpetually entranced by the writing of Sally Rooney. Her prose is simple and sad, poetic and deeply honest. Each of her novels feels like a…

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    Book Review:: Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy

    February 21, 2025

    A few years ago I was in a phase of absolutely inhaling books for a minute there. Most of what I read then is now a blur,…

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    Book Review:: I’ll Come To You | Rebecca Kauffman

    January 24, 2025

    This book is my cup of tea. Like drinking a strong cup of tea at the exact right temperature, really. It warmed me up from the inside…

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    Book Review:: Whale Fall | Elizabeth O’Connor

    January 17, 2025

    In the years between the Great Wars, two unexpected things happen on a remote Welsh island: a whale washes ashore, and two English stenographers arrive. For a…

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    Book Review:: Libby Lost and Found | Stephanie Booth

    October 13, 2024

    Libby Lost and Found is an absolute treasure. The originality crackles on the first page. The themes resound toward our deepest fears and offer hope through profound…

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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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