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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: August 18, 2016

Raise the Red Lantern, by Su Tong

It isn’t enough to translate Chinese literature into English. The translators do as much as […]

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Book Review / Science Fiction Posted on: August 17, 2016July 25, 2018

Mrs. Caliban, by Rachel Ingalls

Rachel Ingall’s Mrs. Caliban is an odd novella of a bored housewife who suddenly finds someone […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Mystery Posted on: August 15, 2016July 25, 2018

The Orphan Mother, by Robert Hicks

Two years after the end of the Civil War, the people of Franklin, Tennessee are […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: August 14, 2016August 14, 2016

The Tea Planter’s Wife, by Dinah Jeffries

Gwen was not at all prepared for life on her new husband’s tea plantation in […]

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Book Review / Mystery Posted on: August 13, 2016August 13, 2016

The Conjoined, by Jen Sookfong Lee

Coming to terms with a parent’s death is difficult enough, but Jen Sookfong Lee threw […]

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Book Review / Historical Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: August 13, 2016August 13, 2016

The Upright Heart, by Julia Ain-Krupa

I think authors write about the Holocaust and readers keep reading about the Holocaust because […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Mystery Posted on: August 10, 2016

The Secrets of Wishtide, by Kate Saunders

Five years after her archdeacon husband passed away, leaving her with a very small annuity, […]

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Alternate History / Book Review / Steampunk Posted on: August 9, 2016

Everfair, by Nisi Shawl

Eddie Izzard explains colonization in such a way that it highlights the absurdity of people […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction Posted on: August 6, 2016

A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

Several times in Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow, Count Alexander Rostov claims or is declared […]

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