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“I think I saw our ghosts”: a devastating modern WWI novel

Regeneration by Pat Barker

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Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls was one of my favorite novels of 2018; I read it after teaching The Iliad for the first time, fascinated by the idea of a novel that told the events of the epic primarily from a feminine point of view: namely, that of Briseis, the Trojan captive that Agamemnon and Achilles quarrel over. It was also my first introduction to Pat Barker in general, and was I ever appreciative of that when I learned that Barker had also written a […]

Can racism be funny?

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

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No. It can’t. But Amber Ruffin gets dangerously close… You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamarr 5 Stars I adore Amber Ruffin. I want to be her friend. She is hilarious; her skits on The Late Show with Seth Myers are perfection and her episodes of Drunk History are pure serotonin. She could have published her grocery list and I would have rushed to read it but instead she published this hilarious memoir with her sister who […]

I’m Naked! I’m Naked! I’m Me!

Fred Gets Dressed by Peter Brown

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Fred Gets Dressed is a modern story about a child finding the outfit that fits that day’s expression.  As a wild, independent, and typical kid, Fred, runs around naked. Then decides to try an experiment with their parents clothing coming to an understanding what outfit works best. It is an obvious story, simple and sweet. The “middle ground” with the liking or not category would be: “I did not hate it but did not love it.” There will be several “OMG! Loooooved it!” (Said in […]

The Wife Between Us

The Wife Between Us  by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

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Continuing my theme of “I read this in February and only have vague recollections of it” in: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen 3.5 Stars rounded up to 4 The Wife Between Us is another book with alternating POVs of Vanessa, an unreliable narrator due to a drinking problem, who has recently gotten out of an abusive marriage with a man named Richard and Nellie- a young woman who is about to marry Richard. “In my marriage, there were three truths, three alternate […]

Believing is seeing

A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

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In A Master of Djinn, writer P. Djeli Clark takes his readers back to Cairo, 1912, and a world where magical creatures such as djinn have become a normal part of life along with their incredible magical mechanical inventions. This book, which is a full-length novel rather than a novella like his previous works, features Agent Fatma el-Sha’arwi, special investigator with the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities. She was the main character in A Dead Djinn in Cairo, and it’s wonderful to […]



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