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May 25, 20231 min read
The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
La plus précieuse des marchandises 2019, Editions du Seuil This tale is about a baby whose father throws her out of a train window....
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 30, 20232 min read
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2003, Amistad The story starts in 1855, in Virginia, where former slave Henry Townsend is now the owner of 33 slaves. There were free...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 19, 20231 min read
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007, Riverhead It's been a long time since I've posted, or even read, a work of fiction. (I'm not sure why!) Here's one I read a long...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 17, 20222 min read
Jed MacKay, Marvel Comics Writer
I'm so impressed by Jed Mackay, my Canadian cousin I've never met. (Too bad I couldn't make it across the channel for his book signing in...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 30, 20221 min read
Sand and Foam by Khalil Gibran
1926, Alfred A. Knopf Sand and Foam by Khalil Gibran was recommended by Ali, my friend and web designer, who remembered this quote from...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 2, 20222 min read
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
2022, Penguin Random House Nicolae Ceauśescu, (chow-SHESK-oo), communist leader of Romania from 1965 - 1989, duped other world leaders...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 28, 20223 min read
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
2013, Viking Yvonne, Jane and I discussed A Tale for the Time Being at our last bookclub meeting. After eating a lovely lunch, and...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 15, 20221 min read
Friends are Reading: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
2003, St. Martin's Press Thanks to my friend Joan for this summary. In this historical fiction novel set in 19th century Hawaii, Rachel,...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Minding by Chris Paling
2007, Portobello Books Ltd This is the first novel I've read by Chris Paling, who I discovered through his more recently published A Very...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 31, 20221 min read
Mother by Luc Lang
2012, Editions Stock The only reason I'm including this book, which I didn't finish, is to note an experience of the author's which gave...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 24, 20221 min read
Ukraine Yesterday and Today
A book about Ukraine during WWII and a song by a Ukrainian refugee today. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 2002,...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 24, 20223 min read
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
2019, Sourcebooks Have you heard of the blue-skinned people of Kentucky? Or the Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project? I hadn’t until my...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 22, 20221 min read
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2008, Simon & Schuster I vowed to read no more books until posting all the backlogged ones, but I cheated with Olive Kitteridge, a story...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 17, 20224 min read
Emmeline by Judith Rossner
2017, Persephone Books 1980, Simon and Schuster, Jonathan Cape Sue gave me this book after reading it herself; being a kindred reader...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 10, 20221 min read
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
First published, 1963 First English translation, 1966, Peter Owen Publishers I discovered this beautiful, eerie, tale by chance in a...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 6, 20221 min read
The Judas Kiss by David Hare
1998, Faber and Faber This dramatization of the arrest, imprisonment and banishment from England of writer Oscar Wilde for homosexual...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 4, 20222 min read
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
1999, Simon & Schuster The New York Times Book Review (see cover image) compares this book's style to the "lonesome pathos" of Hank...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 2, 20221 min read
The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis by Dillon "His Self" Helbig
February 2, 2022, The New York Times I know it's never too late to follow your dreams, but this young author thinks it's never too soon...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 27, 20221 min read
The Girls by Emma Cline
2016, Penguin Random House Summer 2021: While waiting for my delayed plane, I am trying to post quickly before I forget the details of...
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kelliebooksblog
Dec 9, 20212 min read
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
1869 In 2019, I posted War and Peace, one of my favorite books of all time, with just one sentence promising I would "complete this post...
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