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Bellwether by Connie Willis

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Bellwether was written in 1997 by Connie Willis, but seems very current.  It’s considered science fiction, but frankly, I don’t think it really is since everything in it could actually happen.  Set in a big corporation called HiTek, it is told from the point of view of Sandra, a researcher trying to discover what causes fads.  She is navigating life while interacting with friends and coworkers who are all investigating different things while the company pushes for one of them to win the Niebnitz Grant […]

Maybe Too Soon

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

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Continuing my read of Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series with The Locked Room, the most recent book, published in 2022.  It starts early in 2020 (we all know what’s about to happen) with life continuing as normal along the marshes of Norfolk, and Ruth making a trip to London to clear out some of her deceased mother’s belongings.  Among them, she finds a picture of her house taken several years before she was born and with the cryptic notation ‘Dawn, 1963’ on the back in […]

Who Knew Taking Hostages Could be Heartwarming

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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Anxious People is the best book I’ve read in a long time.  It managed both to make me laugh out loud and start to cry.  Taking place on the eve of New Year’s Eve in a small town in Sweden, it brings together a fairly large cast without losing site of any of them, and making their voices and stories distinct. A burglar attempts to rob a cashless bank for a pittance, then runs away only to stumble into the open house of an apartment […]

Fun with Amelia Peabody

The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters

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Book 6 in the Amelia Peabody series sees the ever intrepid Amelia, husband Emerson and son Ramses dive into peril deep into the deserts of Sudan.  The book follows the family of Victorian era British Egyptologists during a dig in which they attempt to find the whereabouts of two of Emerson’s friends who vanished into the desert 14 years previously, while attempting to find a rumored lost civilization.  Of course Amelia et al find the lost civilization (or are they led to it?), which has […]

Thought provoking novel about race and privilege in the US

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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This is a thought provoking book about two generations of a family: identical twin sisters who each have one daughter born in the early 1960s. The twins are both Black, but one makes the decision to pass as white while the other stays within the Black community. The interactions and repercussions on their daughters are really interesting, and the book is beautifully written. The twins (Stella and Desiree) are born in a Louisiana community entirely of light skinned Black people, and are traumatized at a […]

A Sweet Take on Witches

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

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I listened to this book by Sangu Mandanna as an audiobook, read by Samara MacLaren.  It was a sweet, easy read that made my commute fly by.  In The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, it is set out early on (so not a spoiler) that all witches are orphans due to a bungled curse centuries ago.  Whenever a witch is born, she is almost immediately orphaned leaving her to be raised by others.  Our protagonist is Mika, born and orphaned in India then brought […]



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