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Hello Wife has a lot in common with Demon Copperfield by Barbara Kingsolver as both deal with the problem of drug addiction in contemporary America, though I preferred the Kingsolver version. Charlotte Lansing, the protagonist of Hello Wife, is a fifty-something woman who had a good start in life with a loving family, a physician father who p...


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The Pasha of Cuisine reminds me of another Turkish book I read recently, The Architect’s Apprentice by El if Shafak. Both are set in the Ottoman Empire, are based in a tradition of oral storytelling, and have a dash of magical realism. 

When the old  sultan dies, his heir kills all his siblings and their children to avoid future coups. An un...


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I’m continuing my quest to read the entirety of Larry McMurtry’s works. In The Last Kind Words Saloon, McMurtry returns to the late nineteenth century American West of Lonesome Dove. This is a sequel of sorts to Telegraph Days but with a different cast of characters with only an occasional mention of Nellie Courtright, though the book ends wi...


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This is a review of all 1424 pages of the multi-award winning Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin,

I don’t read much science fiction these days but grew up reading now-classic sci-fi from notables like Asimov, Le Guin, Heinlein, and Clarke. The Broken Earth series (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky) drew me ...


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