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Definitely Not Jack and Rose

The Deep by Alma Katsu

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I’ve been curious about The Hunger by Alma Katsu for ages now but horror isn’t always my go to genre so I was holding off on it.  And yet, when I saw her most recent novel revolved around the Titanic and supernatural connections between the Titanic and its sistership, the Britannica, I couldn’t resist. The novel begins with Annie Hebbley, a Titanic survivor and former crew member, who has spent the last four years in an asylum, recovering from her experiences of that night. However, […]

The Hero Played Fiddle

The Bravest Man in the World by Patricia Polacco

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Covers speak a lot about what might be in a book. I looked at the cover of The Bravest Man in the World by Patricia Polacco and thought, “I wonder if this is about a Jewish man in a concentration camp?” For some reason it had that feeling of how music can keep you free during great turmoil. But then saw the ship behind him, “Aaaah. A book about the Titanic.” (I still think a story of the Titanic fits that theme.) This book has […]

More Books I’m Giving As Gifts (Reading On Their Own Edition)

Titanic (Eyewitness); The Tapper Twins Go To War; Tood Night Stories For Rebel Girls; The Westing Game; Nightmares; Sister Solider, Fly Home by Simon Adams; Geoff Rodkey; Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo; Ellen Raskin; Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller; Nancy Bo Flood

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Now, just because they can read on their own does not mean that you can’t read these books with them, just saying.  Because that’s definitely the case with this first book: Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo – So the only problem with this book is that I only ordered one copy.  And now I have about ten different girls I want to give a copy to. Because guys, it’s SO GOOD.  There’s 100 different amazing women, with 100 […]

I give you Liane Moriarty and this is the thanks I get.

The Girl Who Came Home by Liane Moriarty

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My Granny reads a lot. She goes through nearly a book a day, like some kind of elderly badkittyuno. Her taste is pretty decent. I introduced her to Liane Moriarty and in under two weeks she’d read everything she’d ever written. So when she enthusiastically recommended The Girl Who Came Home, I requested it from the library and bumped it to the top of my list. Not much gets to cut in my to-be-read line, but the woman is a months-away-from-70 pancreatic cancer survivor…frankly, who […]

It’s about more than the sinking of the Titanic

Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

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This novel, published in 1996 and winner of the Whitbread Prize (shortlisted for the Booker), is set on the Titanic’s fateful voyage, and it is about loss, but not just the loss of those who set sail. Every Man for Himself is about the loss of love, the passing of an old world, and the painful birth of the new one as exemplified by our 22-year-old narrator. Morgan has known both deprivation and privilege, having had a foot in both worlds. Yet, he is not […]



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