Category Archives: Book Reviews

SPACE 2013

Each spring in Columbus there is a book fair called SPACE, the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo.  After years of thinking about going, I finally got there.  Approximately 150 artists were set up at tables selling their wares.  It’s … Continue reading

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Book Review: Flora

FLORA by Gail Godwin Bloomsbury, May 2013 If this book were a fable, it would be “How Helen Learns to Feel Remorse.”  There are stories from the past told by Nonnie and Flora and Finn, but mostly there is the … Continue reading

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Book Review: A Girl Called Problem

A GIRL CALLED PROBLEM by Katie Quirk Eerdmans Books, April 2013 Exotic location and sympathetic, real characters combine to provide excellent entertainment in a book aimed at students aged 10-14.  Grandmothers might enjoy it too, as did I.  The place … Continue reading

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Book Review: When We Wake by Karen Healey

It’s fun working in a bookstore and getting ARCs!  (The pre-publication galley.) We can read what will be coming out in the next few months, ahead of the general reader.  Recently I read, “When We Wake” by Karen Healey.   It’s … Continue reading

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The Paris Wife

Just a quick kudos to my friend Paula McLain.  The paperback version of The Paris Wife has been number one on the Indie Bound bestseller list for three weeks now, and it is currently number five on The New York … Continue reading

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Frances and Bernard

Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer is a wonderfully written novel told through the correspondence between the title characters. The format that Bauer uses, revealing the lives of Frances and Bernard through letters, gives them a depth that allows these … Continue reading

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Recommended Read: Child Wonder

Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen awed me in so many ways.  The voice of Finn, this child narrator, is odd and beautiful.  His observations about his mother, his friends and extended family, the lodger that rents a room in their … Continue reading

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