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Beartown by Fredrik Backman
“Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there.” When a story holds your soul prisoner, words will never have the ability to adequately express…
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The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the 2017 debut novel of Gail Honeyman, and the winner of the 2017 Costa Debut Novel Award. It is a story of an odd and eccentric finance clerk in a graphic design company. Eleanor lives a life of isolation and loneliness until she meets Raymond the IT guy in a serendipitous encounter.…
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Diary of a Bad Writer: Not Another New Year’s Resolution
It seems so cliché – posts, tweets, sermons, commercials and movies all taunt the New Year’s Resolution. Personally, I do not make New Year’s Resolutions, but I do take the time to reflect which is the true intent of the resolution concept. Resolutions tend to be synonymous with lack of follow-through. This year instead of…
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Merry Christmas
Remember the movie Scrooged with Bill Murry? Such an awesome retelling of one of the best Christmas stories of all time! And the greatest moment of the movie is when Bill Murry’s character finally gets it. It may not be a Charles Dickens tear-inducing Tiny Tim moment, but stay with me…here’s what he yells in…
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Diary of a Bad Writer: Holiday Songs Take Center Stage
The media has honed in on holiday songs this year, specifically Baby It’s Cold Outside. But the Washington Post took a satirical jab at one of Christmas’s most, if not beloved, well-sung songs – The Little Drummer Boy. It is interesting the writer talks of the little drummer boy as an annoying party-crasher who showed…
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Diary of a Bad Writer: Overbooked?
Overbooked. That’s what I am – or at least feel like. My calendar and task list are too full. How about you? Is it the season or is it just what we allow to occupy our time?
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Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
I picked up Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella only after reading Surprise Me. I loved Surprise Me, but can’t say the same for the character of Becky Bloomwood. I thought she was a shallow and self-centered twit. Maybe that’s what Kinsella wanted – a character that the reader would roll his or her…
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“If love is easy, you’re not doing it right.”
My husband and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary Sunday – the silver plate anniversary! I promise, I’m not making this up – google it if you don’t believe me. But I digress… I’ve just finished Sophie Kinsella’s Surprise Me – and it was wonderful. All the reviews warned against reading this as a first…
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