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Review: "Manhattan Beach"
I’ve only read one other novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan. But my love for that book had me certain I would love the...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 27: Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
This weekend, I spent two impossibly beautiful, blue-skied days in the Berkshires. Of course, I made a stop at The Mount, Edith...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 24: "Netherland"
Today's review is of Joseph O'Neill's beautiful post-colonial novel, Netherland. Most of the novel is told in an extended flashback,...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 23: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
If we're going to run the full literary gamut in this 30 books series, we're going to need to include something by Shakespeare. I have a...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 18: "Like Water for Chocolate"
Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate is a beautiful, vivid picture of magical realism, set in Mexico. It is a star-crossed love...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 14: "Winesburg, Ohio"
Though I now live in a city (hi, Boston), I am at heart a lover of the small town. So much so, in fact, that I wrote my college thesis...
30 Books in 30 Days Day 12: "My Name is Lucy Barton"
Inspired by yesterday’s review and recent languid summer days, we’ll continue the trend of simplicity with today’s review of Elizabeth...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 5: "On Chesil Beach"
If you’ve read Atonement, you know that Ian McEwan is a master at taking seemingly happy situations and twisting them, squeezing...
30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 1: "Sweetbitter"
Let’s kick off the series with a glass of wine and a burst of excess, shall we? I first read a review of Stephanie Danler’s Sweetbitter...
Review: The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale was an accidentally timely choice when it popped up on my “recommended” list on my library app. I’d heard of the...
Review: Dept. of Speculation
After a string of thick, committed relationship-style books, I recently had the rare pleasure of reading one in just half a day. Jenny...
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