book review
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Book review: Aftershocks: A memoir — by Nadia Owusu
(Simon & Schuster) It is often said you can learn a lot by walking in someone else’s shoes, and this gifted writer, Nadia Owusu, winner of a Whiting…
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Book review: Better Luck Next Time — by Julia Claiborne Johnson
(Custom House) When an unknown but interested party finds Howard Stovall Bennett III, living out his last days in a retirement home, and shows him an old photo,…
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Book review: The Captive — by Fiona King Foster
(Ecco Press) In a nation split by irreconcilable differences, one woman, rigid and unyielding in her determination, imprinted with a legacy of familial misconduct, takes on the task…
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Book review: The Fortunate Ones — by Ed Tarkington
(Algonquin Books) It was just too good to be true. Charlie Boykin, a boy whose life had been marked by misfortune — his father gone before he was…
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Book review: Skunk and Badger — by Amy Timberlake
(Algonquin Young Readers) Badger, a rock scientist without steady rock work, but most assuredly on the precipice of an Important Rock Discovery, lives in his Aunt Lulu’s brownstone,…
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Book review: Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures
(Random House) Be prepared to be amazed as you enter the world of fungi, from yeast to psychedelics, mycelial networks to metabolic masters. You’ll learn about fungal worm-hunting…
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Book review: The Best American Travel Writing 2020
(Mariner Books) Robert Macfarlane, author of “Underland,” “The Lost Words” and “The Lost Spells,” as guest editor this year, ushers readers into this most peculiar time, a time…
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Book review: The Wim Hof Method — by Wim Hof
(Sounds True) You’ve probably heard of the Dutch extreme athlete Wim Hof, also known as the Iceman, who has set numerous world records with his ability to withstand…
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Book review: The Boy In The Field — by Margot Livesey
(Harper) On the surface, this small serious novel, droll in moments, concerns the individual experiences of three young people who, having been witness to and actors in a…
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Book review: The Thursday Murder Club — by Richard Osman
(Pamela Dorman Books) Richard Osman, the hugely popular star of numerous British quiz shows, has delivered an intricately plotted and delightfully devilish mystery in her debut novel, and…