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Mar 31, 20222 min read
Friends are reading: Roger Fry by Virginia Woolf
1940, The Hogarth Press Special thanks to my friend for this review. I am reading Virginia Woolf’s biography of Roger Fry, the art critic...
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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
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Hair, husbands and the healing power of friends
Yesterday I got my hair cut short. After seeing a photo of myself looking pretty good with bangs, I convinced myself it could work again....
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 17, 20222 min read
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars 2020, Faber & Faber These five women, Virginia Woolf, writer and publisher; Dorothy...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 10, 20221 min read
The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke
2011, Riverhead Books Meghan O'Rourke recounts the loss of her mother who was only 55, and the long grieving process which followed....
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 8, 20221 min read
Celebrate International Women's Day
8 March, 2022 In honor of International Women's Day, The British magazine, The Economist, has chosen Malala Yousafzai as the first guest...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 6, 20221 min read
World Book Day at Bill & Rosa's Book Room near Paris
March 4, 2022 In honor of World Book Day, Becky, Yvonne and I, with 4 other book lovers, made flowers out of books at Bill & Rosa's Book...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 3, 20221 min read
Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison
2009, Vintage In this memoir dedicated to her late husband Richard Wyatt, Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind, The Night Falls...)...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 3, 20222 min read
The Making of an Englishman by Fred Uhlman
1960, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London French version title: Il Fait Beau a Paris Aujourd'hui, 1985 Jo lent me this autobiography of the...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 3, 20223 min read
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
2011, Orbis Books In his introduction to this unique and profoundly important book about a particular aspect of racism in America, the...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 21, 20224 min read
"At Newport Beach" A Poem by Sarina Romero
The Yale Review, June 28, 2021 I met the poet Sarina Romero through friends, and we recently had the pleasure of talking together about...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 11, 20222 min read
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
1972, BBC, Penguin Books Ltd Looking through some old college papers recently, I found a photocopied excerpt of this book about the...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 10, 20221 min read
Le Banc du Temps Qui Passe by Hubert Reeves
Meditations cosmiques (The Bench of Passing Time, Cosmic Meditations, not available in English) 2017, Editions du Seuil Montreal-born...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 10, 20221 min read
Innocence Project Black History Month Reading List
February is Black History Month. Here are 15 books to read during Black History Month and beyond.
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 6, 20221 min read
Innocence Project Reading & Media Guides
The Innocence Project, USA fights to exonerate the wrongfully incarcerated who are serving long prison terms or on death row for crimes...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous
2021, First Mariner Books Uncommon but evidently not impossible to publish a book under no name, in Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, this...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 5, 20223 min read
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
2008, Little, Brown Julia recommended this book after reading it for her law class Meanings of Motherhood: Legal and Historical...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 3, 20221 min read
Tolstoy by Romain Rolland
1911, Hachette (La Vie de Tolstoï) The French writer Romain Rolland (1866 - 1944), a mentor and favorite of Stefan Sweig, wrote this...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 2, 20222 min read
A Very Nice Rejection Letter by Chris Paling
2021, Constable Below is a note I wrote on author Chris Paling's blog. He kindly sent a return note, but for now, here's just mine, with...
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kelliebooksblog
Feb 1, 20221 min read
The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds
2012, Hudson Street Press Summer 2021 Yet another book found this summer in the beach condo, the main take away for me: scientific...
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