Category: Literary Fiction
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Epic Book Mail: THE ONLY STORY by Julian Barnes, CHERRY by Nico Walker, & THERE THERE by Tommy Orange
Thank you so much to Knopf Publishing for these wonderful books! I cannot wait to read them! I will leave the synopses for each below. THE ONLY STORY: One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the…
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Gorgeous Book Mail: THE FEMALE PERSUASION by Meg Wolitzer
Thank you so much Allison from Riverhead Books for sending me this lovely copy! This is my most anticipated read, so I am over the moon excited for this! Synopsis: From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want to be. To…
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Review: MARIA IN THE MOON by Louise Beech
Thank you so much Orenda Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description: Thirty-two-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can’t remember everything. She can’t remember her ninth year. She can’t remember when her insomnia started. And she can’t remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With…
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Review: SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BOY by Rachel Lyon
Thank you so much to Scribner for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “What enraged me is that they didn’t, couldn’t, see me. I was less than a machine to them, less than a body. I did not even appear in their line of sight. I was nothing more than a…
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Review: BLACK SWANS by Eve Babitz
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Blurb: A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s―decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing…
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Review: OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by Abbi Waxman
Thank you so much to Berkley Publishing for providing my free copy of OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by Abbi Waxman – all opinions are my own. “She’d read somewhere that hurricanes had winds so powerful that a piece of straw could pierce an oak, thrown so hard it became deadly beyond its weight. She was the…
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Book Spotlight: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF SAM HELL by Robert Dugoni
I am ecstatic to start reading this book! It looks incredible! Thank you so much Little Bird Publicity, Amazon Publishing, and Lake Union Authors for providing my free copy! This beauty is available for purchase on April 24th! SYNOPSIS: Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that,…
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Review: BEFORE I LET YOU GO by Kelly Rimmer
Thank you so much to Little Bird Publicity, Graydon House, and Harlequin Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “…just like love—in the early moments, you don’t see the potential for it to bring you pain—it’s just something you slide into between laughs and smiles and moments of bliss. It’s…
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Review: COVE by Cynan Jones
Thank you so much Catapult for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “He’d had to go through so many possessions, things that exploded smally with memories over the last few weeks; but it was the opposite with the ashes. He was trying to hold away the fact that they knew nothing…
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Pretty Book Mail: PARIS BY THE BOOK by Liam Callanan
Thank you so very much to Dutton Books for sending this lovely free copy my way! I cannot wait to read it and I am in love with this cover! SYNOPSIS: A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother…