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Dysfunctional Family Bonding Dysfunctionally: The Red House by Mark Haddon
Daily crises, confrontations, misunderstandings, adolescent hormonal outbreaks, sexual tension, attempted suicide, a nervous breakdown, a dramatic brush with death, and no cell phone reception except...
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Blog Tour: Heaven Should Fall by Rebecca Coleman
Heaven Should Fall, the second novel by Rebecca Coleman, author of The Kingdom of Childhood, opens with the striking scene of a young wife coming out to the shed behind the house to call her handsome...
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Unbearable Weightiness of Being: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
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1. Love–Fiction. 2. Dating (Social Customs)–Fiction. 3. High Schools–Fiction. 4. Schools–Fiction. These library catalog subject headings usually signal a YA love story, often one that teachers and...
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The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls is the author’s third book and sort-of second novel. Her first book, The Glass Castle, was a masterful memoir of family dysfunction; her second, Half Broke Horses,...
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At the opening of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis, Hattie is a new mother in Philadelphia in 1925 – full of hope for her future life with her husband August and the future [...]
View ArticleIt’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 11-11-19 #IMWAYR
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View ArticleSaving Your Family: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls @SimonAudio (Audio)
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls is the author’s third book and sort-of second novel. Her first book, The Glass Castle, was a masterful memoir of family dysfunction; her second, Half Broke Horses,...
View ArticleA Hard Life: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
At the opening of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis, Hattie is a new mother in Philadelphia in 1925 – full of hope for her future life with her husband August and the future of their twin...
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Veterans’ Day A month from last post again! Today’s a holiday, so I have the day off and no excuse for not blogging. I didn’t read anything especially in honor of Veterans’ Day, but, coincidentally,...
View ArticleA New Book to Love: All the Children Are Home by Patry Francis #giveaway
Book Review A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak—from the author of The Orphans at Race Point....
View ArticleBook Review: Lily the Tiller by Deborah McKinlay
“Twenty years, Lily guessed, the garden had slept there without any endeavor applied beyond scratchings. There were daffodils gone riotous, ivy on the rampage. Stone planters sat mossed; on its side,...
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