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Jan 31, 20222 min read
Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow
The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist 2018, Doubleday Dear Readers, my New Year's Resolution is to post all my backlogged books and...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 27, 20222 min read
Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen 2010, Faber and Faber Ltd Summer 2021: Quickly before my memory fades. I'm waiting in the...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 27, 20222 min read
A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher
The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland 2005, W.W. Norton & Company "A superior work of...
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kelliebooksblog
Jan 21, 20221 min read
"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
Originally published 1990, Three Penny Review Yvonne read this essay by Amy Tan (author of The Joy Luck Club) and shared it with...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 11, 20212 min read
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Sweig
2015, Pushkin Press (new English translation) Written between 1914 - 1941, the essays in this collection are mainly a call for European...
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kelliebooksblog
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Shooting Stars: Ten Historical Miniatures by Stefan Sweig
translated by Anthea Bell 2015, Pushkin Press Have you seen the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit, or the Wes Anderson film The Grand...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 28, 20214 min read
The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg
2020, HarperCollins I think I'm being, as usual, quite overly optimistic thinking I can do this post before boarding my plane in about an...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 22, 20215 min read
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Sweig
1942, Williams Verlag 2013, University of Nebraska Press Translated by Anthea Bell In this autobiographical text which has been called...
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kelliebooksblog
Oct 7, 20212 min read
Bella Figura by Kamin Mohammadi
Bella Figura: How to Live, Love and Eat the Italian Way 2018, Bloomsbury Journalist Kamin Mohammadi is overworked, overweight and just...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 24, 20214 min read
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Read this book! My neighbor lent it to me following an across-the-rose-bushes discussion about topics ranging from the search for a...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 11, 20212 min read
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Gale Cengage Learning, 1992 My physical therapist, a big fan of relationship books, told me all about this one while massaging my...
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kelliebooksblog
Jun 3, 20212 min read
Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Last Interview
2020, Melville House Publishing Hello readers, as you can see I'm not exactly up to date. I would have liked to published this Ruth Bader...
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kelliebooksblog
May 20, 20211 min read
Friends Are Reading...American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Flatiron Books, 2020 Michele says: 👍 This book about a mother and son immigrating to the US from South America is a thriller, but at the...
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kelliebooksblog
May 20, 20211 min read
Friends are reading...Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
2019, Bantam Press Michele's review: 👍 This chronicle of Yip-William's fight to live her life to the fullest in the face of terminal...
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kelliebooksblog
May 6, 20211 min read
Le Temps d'un Soupir by Anne Philipe
1963, Julliard Anne Philipe wrote this moving book after the premature death of her husband, actor Gérard Philipe, at age 37. It is...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 26, 20212 min read
It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst
It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty...And Other Tragedies of Married Life, 1968 People & Other Aggravations, 1970 1999, Persephone Books Ltd....
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 26, 20211 min read
TikTokTalk
Did you know that young readers are creating a sensation posting short videos of themselves reading and recommending books on TikTok ?...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 18, 20211 min read
Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion Vintage, 2013 This title may hit you wrong if you're religious, but...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 11, 20212 min read
England is a Garden by Catherine Hamilton
1985, Bracken Books I bought this book for my Mom in England while traveling with Sue in 1985, and recently decided to read through it...
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kelliebooksblog
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Alienated America by Timothy P Carney
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse 2019, Harper We2 bookclub rates this book: Christine: This data-driven...
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