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my take: Oooh, this is a lovely little book. Little in your hand, but big in your experience. This historical …

my take: my mother handed me this and said she’d had low expectations and had been pleasantly surprised that she …

my take: I’m reading all things Urrea in preparation for the Festival of Faith and Writing in April. While this …

My take: I was so excited to read this … the continuation of The Hummingbird’s Daughter. I was a bit …

my take: I loved this book. Is it too early to say best book of the year? As in, it’s …

My take: This memoir left me breathless. I’ve never read a memoir written with such urgency. I kept waiting for …

my take: It would seem that this book has the perfect mix to be super depressing: Russia, World War II, …

my take: This book was a soothing balm for my tumultuous mind & soul this fall and early winter …. …

my take: this is a great younger read … probably younger than the typical “young adult.” it won the newbery …

my take: Oh, this slim book packs a lot of sadness. “George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before …

my take: I see they are making a movie (starring Sandra Bullock) of this … so get it read before …

my take: A lot of sentences in this book are worth reading several times. Seriously. the introduction alone is worth …

my take: I loved Olga Grushin’s first novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, and this is equally fabulous. The story …