Tag: book-reviews

• Book Review: The Accidental Rewrite by Milly Johnson

  First of all, since this was an offering on NetGalley I assumed this was a brand new, yet to be published book, perhaps by a debut author. Silly me, wrong on all accounts. The Accidental Rewrite was first published in February of 2024 in the UK under the title The Happiest Ever After. And, Milly…

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  September 12, 2025

  books

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• Book Review: What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

  First of all, thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for the ARC ebook of this new book by Sophie Kinsella, which is due to be published on October 8, 2024. Secondly, please please please take note that this new book is a work of fiction, but Kinsella herself stated that it is…

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  September 10, 2024

  books

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• Book Review: Within Arm’s Reach by Ann Napolitano

  In January this year Madison Dettlinger at Penguin Random House offered me an ARC of the reissued first novel of Ann Napolitano, Within Arm’s Reach. I was teaching and mentoring a new teacher at the time, and subsequently, my reading life was derailed. With apologies for the lateness of this review, thank you to Madison…

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  June 10, 2024

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• Book Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

  If you know me at all, you will know that Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout changed me, as a reader, as a writer, and as a person. Olive Kitteridge was the first book I read that looked like a novel, but was instead a series of short stories that were woven together such that it…

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  May 1, 2024

  books, Essay, food

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