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  • Master Class by Christina Dalcher – Book Review

    February 28, 2021February 28, 2021Book Reviews
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    Imagine if your school scores defined your live, your opportunities, your shopping trips? That's Master Class by Christina Dalcher.

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  • Book Review: The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall

    December 22, 2020December 23, 2020Book Reviews
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    Kate Mildenhall's second novel--The Mother Fault--is the story of a mother protecting her family in a dystopian Australia.

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  • An alternative Jack the Ripper story in People of Abandoned Character

    October 25, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    In People of Abandoned Character, Clare Whitfield tells the story of a possible wife of Jack the Ripper.

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  • A semester of reading. Fluffy, non-academic reading

    July 13, 2019January 13, 2021Book Reviews
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    In among my grad school work it was a semester of reading fluffy books. These novels helped me get through my first semester.

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  • Producing babies at The Farm

    May 6, 2019December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    The Farm by Joanne Ramos is a story of women trying to make their way in life. By commercializing childbirth.

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  • The Girls at 17 Swann Street

    February 4, 2019December 31, 2020Book Reviews

    Anna Roux wasn't ill, she was healthy. She ate only apples, and ran daily and had weight to lose. The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib is Anna's story of anorexia.

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  • A World Where Women Can Only Use 100 Words per Day in Vox by Christina Dalcher

    January 16, 2019December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    Imagine a world where you can't speak more than 100 words per day. No female can, even children. That's the realistic dystopian story, Vox by Christina Dalcher.

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  • A Key to Treehouse Living

    September 4, 2018December 30, 2020Book Reviews
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    William Tyce shares his knowledge of life in a glossary style guide. Except he's a a boy without parents, who grows up near a river in the rural Midwest, inadvertently shares his life story.

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  • A beautifully told tragic tale: The Book of Essie

    June 11, 2018December 30, 2020Book Reviews
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    Sixteen-year old Essie Hicks is the youngest child of an Evangelical christian family with a hit reality television show. She's also pregnant. The Book of Essie is a beautiful and tragic YA novel by Meghan MacLean Weir.

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  • Never under-estimate determined Widows

    June 8, 2018December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    Dolly Rawlins' husband died in a robbery gone wrong and she's left with his ledgers, cash, and resources. So she recruits the other widows and finishes the job. Widows by Lynda La Plante is a crime thriller breaking stereotypes.

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  • The Good Girl: a story of abuse and incels packaged as a romantic thriller.

    May 22, 2018December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    The Good Girl by Mary Kubica is a story of abuse and power but, hey, it's all OK because they love each other. It's meant to be a thriller but it's Twilight for older women without the vampires.

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  • A Crime-Fighting Baby Elephant – The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

    April 18, 2018December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • Jane Tennison’s early years

    March 6, 2018December 24, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • The Story of Happy Liu, Trash Picker – Book Review: Happy Dreams

    January 3, 2018December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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  • Ginny Moon: not approximately, but exactly

    December 6, 2017December 31, 2020Book Reviews
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    This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. If you buy the book using that link,...

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