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One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
“If your mother is the love of your life, what does that make your husband?“ – Rebecca Serle, “One Italian Summer” Review: After reading In Five Years by the same author and enjoying it immensely, I had some high hopes for this book. I shouldn’t have. In part, this book was a victim of my…
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
“The beautiful thing about the piano is that you got white keys and you got black keys. And the only way to make the most beautiful, magnificent, and poetic noise is with both sets of keys working in tandem. You can’t just play all white keys, because you won’t maximize what the instrument has to…
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The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
“People pay accountants and psychologists to give them power over the here and now, and they pay life coaches, fitness trainers, doctors, and tarot readers so they can control more of the future.” – Brittney Morris, “The Cost of Knowing” Review: The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris was the book I didn’t know I…
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True Colors by Kristin Hannah
“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. . . . In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression . . . The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we…
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An Ideal Presence: A Novel by Eduardo Berti
A week later, during an ordinary conversation, he lets it slip: “It’s nice to be informal with each other. But I advise you not to become my friend, because soon you’re going to lose me.” He says the words calmly. With serene anger. With a mix of bitterness and resignation. And I stay there, speechless.…
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The Assignment by Liza M. Wiemer
For students, speaking out against any injustice, especially when adults are involved, can be a formidable task. But it’s crucial, life-changing, and perhaps even life saving. – Liza M. Wiemer Review: The Assignment by Liza M. Wiemer is one of the most underrated and underhyped books of 2020, or of this decade so far. It’s…