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"The Dry"
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"The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend"
my take: Sara arrives in Broken Wheel, Iowa from Sweden ready to meet her pen-pal and take a little vacation …
"The Ramblers"
my take: As I was sorting through book piles, I came across this HARDCOVER book and asked hubby where & …
"Doc"
my take: This took a bit to get into and was well worth the wading at the outset. A combination …
The Little Paris Bookshop
my take: This book is a bit of an enigma. I really wanted to love this. Bookstore, Paris. What more …
"At The Water’s Edge"
my take: From the inexhuastible source of World War II comes a tale from the edge of Loch Ness. A …
"Good on Paper"
my take: I picked this book based on a review that mentioned it was about language/translation which seemed like a …
"The Memory of Light"
my take: Thank you, Francisco X. Stork for writing this book. I cried when I read your author’s note at …
"How to Be Here"
my take: Part memoir, part pep talk, Rob Bell’s new book feels like he’s chatting with you giving you great …
"The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy"
my take: Oh, I do love is kind of book…for every season and an especially great vacation read: an engaging …
"Why We Get Fat"
my take: This is a treatise on why the calories in/calories out paradigm that is touted by medical experts, exercise …
Top Picks July – December 2015
Ah, the second half. These are the most memorable after a year of 50+ books. Fiction: There were parts of …
"Our Souls at Night"
my take: I read this slim, quiet novel in two doses. It’s the tender love story of two aging, widowed …
"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands"
my take: I read this shortly after I read Station Eleven, so at first it seemed like another post-apocolyptic story, …
"All My Puny Sorrows"
my take: Sometimes one picks a book by the reviews on the front covers – this is one of those …
"Fates and Furies"
my take: The title and the cover design give great clues about this read: it’s a wild ride. The Fates …
"The Things They Carried"
my take: Written in pseudo-memoir style, this novel reads like a collection of short stories, and after listening to the …
"Etta and Otto and Russell and James"
my take: Etta, Otto, Russell … their names are linked by doubles letters and their lives are linked by love. …
"My Brilliant Friend"
my take: A tale of two young girls in 1950’s Naples in a rough neighborhood of poverty, violence, and secrets. …