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Nov 25, 20212 min read
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
First published 1878 Thank you for your answers to the survey question: What comes to your mind first when you think of Anna Karenina? ...
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kelliebooksblog
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
2014, Penguin Press Another gift from Julia (thank you!), who reported being hooked on this book by Celeste Ng (pronounced -ing). With...
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kelliebooksblog
Aug 29, 20213 min read
The Farm by Joanne Ramos
2019, Random House Julia gave me this novel about a fictional surrogate birthing clinic where women give birth to provide children for...
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kelliebooksblog
May 27, 20212 min read
The Master by Colm Tóibín
2004, Picador This fictionalized account of the life of writer Henry James during the years 1895-1899 is oh, so beautifully written....
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kelliebooksblog
May 20, 20211 min read
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
2019, Harper, HarperCollins Our bookclub rating: 👍 Thanks to my bookclub bestie, Jane, for reminding me of her thoughts on this past...
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kelliebooksblog
May 20, 20211 min read
Friends are reading...Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Simon & Schuster, 2020 Michele says: 👍 In this unlikely combination thriller/whodunnit/remedy for the anxious, a group of people are...
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kelliebooksblog
May 14, 20213 min read
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
1993, Scribner Reasons to read this book: hope & love (don't expect romance), writing, and humor. For more details and to make up your...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 28, 20212 min read
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
1882, Poe's Poetical Works, Moxon's Popular Poets The other day at lunch, Jo, Annie and I were talking about birds; lovebirds Annie had...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 23, 20211 min read
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
1985, Triad Grafton Although a Booker Prize winner, Hotel du Lac is not my favorite Brookner. Possibly the dreary bleakness of the...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 9, 20214 min read
Expiation by Elizabeth von Arnim
First published in 1929 2019, Persephone Books Thanks to Sue for sending me Expiation, a reflection on social expectations and...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 2, 20212 min read
Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut
Finitude, 2015 Translated into English by Regan Kramer Dear Mr Bourdeaut, Your book inspired me to write to you. It also inspired me to...
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kelliebooksblog
Apr 1, 20211 min read
Florida by Olivier Bourdeaut
2021, Finitude Not available in English (yet) I picked this book up at the grocery store just to see what it was about. I'd read the...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 29, 20211 min read
Beverly Cleary, beloved children's book writer, dies at age 104
Thanks to Michele, whose childhood was full of Cleary characters, for sending me this news today. Cleary didn't like the books she read...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 25, 20213 min read
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
1848 Anne Brontë was an honest and courageous author who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to warn against the danger of marrying the...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 10, 20215 min read
This is Happiness by Niall Williams
2019, Bloomsbury Publishing Kat sent me this book after my father died, which touched my heart. Reading gave me somewhere to go no matter...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 19, 20202 min read
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
1997, Jonathan Cape I found this book (also a movie) in my office at Jo’s house. I’d call it a psychological thriller, but it’s not...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 12, 20202 min read
No and me by Delphine de Vigan
No et moi, 2007, Editions Jean-Claude Lattès No and me, 2010, Bloomsbury No and me is the story of a gifted but socially awkward middle...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 22, 20203 min read
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
1857 The Professor was Charlotte Brontë's first novel, written before Jane Eyre but published posthumously. It's a love story between the...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 15, 20202 min read
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
2011, Knopf The Buddha in the Attic opens in the early 1900's. A boat full of young Japanese "picture brides" are on their way to the...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 8, 20202 min read
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
2020, Alfred A. Knopf This is one of several books I've read recently which I would like to post quickly. Why quickly? I'll try to...
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