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The Museum of Ordinary People (Fiction) and The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter (Non-Fiction) about what to do with our most cherished possessions.

10-26-23

10-14-23

With sympathy, but not sentimentality, and a light hand, Katrina Kittle offers a novel that encompasses many of the current concerns in our world.

A novel, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, that explores the determination to choose the end of one’s long life. Please see Reviews-Fiction.

9-19-23 – All You Have to do is Call, by Kerri Maher.  Berkley Books, 2023, 364 pages.

Just published:  Fiction about life just before Roe v. Wade – a reminder of what it was like, and the work we have to do now. 

Please see “Reviews – Fiction”

9-13-23

Stories of My Life, by Katherine Paterson

This newly updated memoir, by the 90-year-old multiple-award-winning children’s author, reads almost like an adventure story. 

Please see “Non-Fiction Reviews.”

9-5-23 – Just published:

The Raging Storm, by Ann Cleeves, a British mystery in the “Two Rivers” Series – please see “Fiction Reviews.”

8-23-23

Just published, in Non-Fiction, the life of the talented, devoted, and ignored wife of George Orwell

8-20-23 Little Monsters offers a slightly different perspective on aging:  that of a man turning 70, desperate to make a final discovery to cap his already successful career. Please see Reviews: Fiction.

New Fiction Reviews

8-6-23: In Crow Mary, by Kathleen Grissom, and A Council of Dolls, by Mona Susan Powers, Native American women’s lives in the late 19th century and the early to middle 20th century are tenderly described in their beauty and their suffering.

7-30-23

In “No Two Persons Read the Same Book,” Erica Bauermeister shows how the same story can impact a wide range of readers. Please see how she does this in the Fiction Reviews section.