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    Review: The One That Got Away

    by Kathleen June 21, 2017
    by Kathleen June 21, 2017

    In Leigh Himes’ The One That Got Away, Abbey Lahey is an overworked, overwhelmed mother of two. She and her husband, Jimmy, are at each other’s throats and barely making ends meet. To add insult to injury, Jimmy shames Abbey…

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    Book Review: Rich and Pretty

    by Kathleen May 11, 2017
    by Kathleen May 11, 2017

    In his debut novel, Rich and Pretty, Rumaan Alam presents a curious exploration of life-long friendship. Lauren Brooks meets Sarah Thomas when they’re both eleven. It’s Lauren’s first day at a fancy New York City prep school. Her parents have scrimped and sacrificed to…

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    Audiobook Review: The Hate U Give

    by Kathleen April 10, 2017
    by Kathleen April 10, 2017

    There’s considerable buzz around Angie Thomas’s debut young adult novel, The Hate U Give. The Times (UK) reviewer says that it could very well be the YA book of the decade, and The Atlantic calls it “incisive and engrossing.” This is a novel…

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    Dual Review: Two by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    by Kathleen April 4, 2017
    by Kathleen April 4, 2017

    I had a good case of the February blahs, and I needed some sunny reading with snappy prose and compelling plots. Enter Taylor Jenkins Reid, recommended by Anne Bogel of the  What Should I Read Next? podcast. Anne describes One True…

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    Book Review: Wishful Drinking

    by Kathleen March 16, 2017
    by Kathleen March 16, 2017

    After Carrie Fisher died in December, I read many tributes to her witty and affecting literary voice. It seemed a shame that I’d never explored her work, so I put Wishful Drinking, her well-reviewed 2008 memoir, on hold at the…

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    Audiobook Review: A Window Opens

    by Kathleen February 15, 2017
    by Kathleen February 15, 2017

    I heard Elisabeth Egan, author of A Window Opens, give an interview on The New York Times Book Review Podcast in the summer of 2015. She seemed like someone I would want to be friends with. Funny and determined, she wrote her…

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    The Busy Person’s Guide to Keeping Your New Year’s Reading Resolution

    by Kathleen January 10, 2017
    by Kathleen January 10, 2017

    You’ve made a resolution to read more, but… there are kids to shuttle, endless work, dinner to cook, and, of course, The Bachelor to watch. What to do? Today, I’m sharing my favorite strategies, as I begin my fourth year with…

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    Audiobook Review: Be Frank with Me

    by Kathleen December 8, 2016
    by Kathleen December 8, 2016

    I’m doing this thing where I’m reading debuts. I’m doing it because I’m trying to write my own first novel, and it seems like a good idea to read the first novels of other people. You know, the novels of people…

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    Audiobook Review: The Boys in the Boat

    by Kathleen November 29, 2016
    by Kathleen November 29, 2016

    I’ve been meaning to read The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown since it came out in 2013. My students have been loving both the young…

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    Book Review: Miller’s Valley

    by Kathleen November 9, 2016
    by Kathleen November 9, 2016

    In a story that’s at once sprawling and hyper-local, Anna Quindlen renders an immensely likable main character. Our narrator is a girl, bound-and-determined to both hold on to the dearest things, and to shake off the oppressive habits of her family’s…

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