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I was a big fan of In A Dark, Dark Wood, so I was very excited to read Ruth Ware’s next novel, The Woman In Cabin 10. This one follows the same general model as the first, where a cast of characters abides in a tight space in the middle of nowhere. In In A Dark, Dark…
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Moon rocks are one of the most valuable substances on earth. They were collected during Apollo missions and since those have stopped, they are a finite resource. They are locked away in a vault within a vault, which makes it incredibly impressive that a college kid and his two buxom accomplices managed to steal them.…
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New money will NEVER be on equal footing with old money. And you can be rich, but that’s not the same as old New York society rich. Now you’re talking wealth of a whole other level. If only Evelyn’s mother understood that it’s a social circle you can only be born into. Perhaps then she would not…
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I was a big fan of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette so I was excited to receive an advanced copy of her latest novel, Today Will Be Different. Unlike Bernadette, in which the story is conveyed through various snippets of correspondence, this one is told in entirely first person. And what a first person it is.…
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I picked up this book because I, myself, identify as a bad feminist. Sure, I want women to be offered the same opportunities as men, but I won’t be burning my bra anytime soon and think men should give up their spot on the subway for me. But as Roxane Gay displays through this collection…
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WHY DID NOBODY WARN ME THIS BOOK WAS GOING TO MAKE ME CRY? Finch and Violet meet on the roof of their school’s bell tower, both intending to jump to their deaths. Ever since the death of her sister, Violet has been unable to find joy in her life. Her life has changed so dramatically…
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In this present day version of Pride and Prejudice, Liz Bennet is a New York magazine journalist who returns to her native Cincinnati to help her mother and four sisters care for her father after a heart attack. The Bennets are an interesting bunch. There’s Mrs. Bennet, a women with a shopping addiction, who can…
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What happens to cool 90s grungy rockers after the music stops? They move to Brooklyn, hold steady jobs, and raise children. Despite “growing up”, Andrew, Elizabeth, and Zoe are former bandmates who have remained the best of friends (and in the case of Andrew and Elizabeth, spouses). They live next door to each other and…
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A sort-of retelling of Snow White
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Once thing I’ve learned about India through my literary endeavors is the vast disparity between the lower and middle classes. In Thrity Umrigar’s novel, these two groups are placed in direct contrast, as seen through the eyes of two women. Bhima lives in a Bombay slum. She is illiterate and missing two teeth. She cares for…
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Peaches to Apples 