A brief overview of recent reads.
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The Book Journal April 2023
I have been traveling a lot so there have been days this month with plenty of time to read and then days where I don’t get any reading time at all, so it’s been an interesting month of reading on planes, trains, and automobiles. Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste was everything I hope a modern…
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The Book Journal March 2023
The first hint of Spring arrived this month and although I love reading by the fire in the Winter, it was a good reminder reading outside in the sunshine is pretty great too…
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The Book Journal February 2023
Is there anything better than an impulse book from the library? All of the joy of an impulse bookstore purchase but for free!
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The Book Journal January 2023
January was full of un-packing, catching up with friends too sick to celebrate the holidays last month, and tackling all of the work that everyone agreed could wait until the new year, so I’ll admit it was a strange month of reading.
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The Book Journal December 2022
The last month of 2022 was full of holidays parties so in between catch-ups and cocktail hours I tried to squeeze in as much reading as possible with as little to do with Christmas as possible (well, with one exception anyway.)
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The Book Journal November 2022
This month was a bit of a variety show including a gothic novel, two biographies, some non-fiction essays, and plenty of mysteries.
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The Book Journal October 2022
This month was full of heartbreak and humor – but not from the same authors.
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The Book Journal September 2022
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff is the perfect combination of modern non-fiction, oral history, and cultural history. The structure of the narrative hops around amongst modern day interviews and historical background and biographies. This structure is both engaging and a good reminder…
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The Book Journal August 2022
With the end of Summer coming I took every opportunity to read outside and go for long walks with audiobooks and it lead to a great month of reading.
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The Book Journal July 2022
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan was a truly one-of-a-kind book. Fagan drags us through time and into the minds of an incredibly varied cast of characters, but we stay firmly in the same location – an apartment building in Edinburgh. This novel may have been sewn with the threads of magic and one powerful curse, but…
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