Land of Love and Drowning
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Apr 4 2015
isn:
9780698168800
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Blood Oranges
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Mar 26 2015
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9781101594858
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World After
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Mar 16 2015
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9781477817285
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Roomies
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Feb 5 2018
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9780316217491
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Dancing Through It
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Jan 25 2015
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9780670026494
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Cup of Water Under My Bed, a
Hernández recounts childhood, coming-of-age, coming out, and coming to terms with her family. Like other child-of-immigrants stories, this one is about a child set up to leave her family behind.
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Jan 18 2015
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978-0-8070-1448-6
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Far From You
When we meet Sophie Winters she's in rehab against her will and has survived a life-threatening car accident, addiction to painkillers related to the life-threatening car accident, and the murder of her best friend.
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Jan 15 2014
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978-142318462-1
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Station Eleven
It took me a little while to get into this post-pandemic novel, but once I was in it, I was uncomfortably in the lonely world where only .6% of the population survives a flu outbreak. I'm still not getting a flu shot, btw.
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Jan 8 2015
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978-0-385-35331-1
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All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion, the
Fannie Flagg novels always go down easy and are southern charming as all get-out. All-Girl centers on a 60-year-old woman who finds out she's not southern, at least not in the southern way of knowing who your people are a few generations back. It's also about Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs). Unless you're a real crankypants, you should be moved by protagonist Sookie Poole's evolution, the WASPs accomplishments, or both. I sniffled quite a bit reading about the titular event while riding a New Jersey transit train home from Jewish Christmas.
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Dec 25 2013
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978-0-8129-9463-6
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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
I'm not much of a foodie, but I do love graphic memoirs, so I was happy to receive Knisley's book from my homie C-Dog as a solstice (or whatever) gift. I found myself envying how Knisley's love of food and cooking shored up her relationships with parents and friends. As you may know, I also have a soft spot for anything period related, so I loved this passage:
A woman's body craved protein and iron.
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I grew into my mother's cravings - the demands of my inherited body chemistry.
< copyrighted image where Lucy says, "Once a month I need spinach." and "Like a were-rabbit." >
reviewdate:
Dec 21 2013
isn:
978-1-59643-623-7