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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Jill’s review of Domenica Ruta’s With or Without You
In March of 2013 this book was Powell’s Indiespensible selection, which is how I first learned of it. The choice surprised me since all the other books Powell’s had sent me were fiction, and this is a memoir. The choice … Continue reading
Ah, beautiful nonsense…. Jill’s review of John Banville’s The Sea
Here’s something you probably don’t know about my boss: she must read books that make the longlist, the shortlist, and win the Man Booker Prize. So I’m pretty sure that’s why she purchased John Banville’s The Sea. It won the … Continue reading
Yarn Along
This was the second scarf I started, but it will be the sixth one I finish. It’s made up of the same “Forgiving scarf” pattern I’ve been using in almost every project lately, but it’s thinner and has a different … Continue reading
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In which Jill revisits a beloved genre and reviews a young adult novel: My review of Libba Bray’s The Diviners
This may be the first teen novel I’ve read since we started the blog. I admit I’ve avoided them lest our readers think my reading tastes are too pedestrian. But after a year and a half of doing this blogging … Continue reading
A Review of David Talbot’s Season of the Witch
When I was very young – about two or three – I had a recurring dream about a hillside that looked exactly like the hillside in the opening credits of the TV series Little House on the Prairie. You remember … Continue reading
Jill reviews Lisa O’Donnell’s The Death of Bees
This book came to me last year as the first Powell’s Books Indiespensible selection of 2013. It was the first time in my brief history of belonging to the Indiespensible subscription club that I saw a book in a bookstore … Continue reading
Postcards From Purgatory 