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A Line You Have Traced

A Line You Have Traced

by: Roisin Dunnett

April 15, 2025 The Feminist Press

328 pages

Review by: Valerie Estelle Frankel

A Line You Have Traced is a slow generational story, comparing women’s lives across time. In that way, it suggests The ...


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The Lighthouse At The Edge of The World

The Lighthouse At The Edge Of The World

by: J.R. Dawson

July 29, 2025, Tor Books

336 pages

Who among us has not wondered where we go when we die? Lots of cultures, and books!, have mythology surrounding a river and a ferryman. Certainly a lighthouse is not out of place in that setting, but in J.R. Dawson’s


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Reading The Torah With Bookishlyjewish – Vayakhel Pikudei

Where, you are wondering, is the photo for parshat Vayakhel-Pikudei? It’s a double parsha (during leap years Vayakhel and Pikudei are read separately). Shouldn’t there be one, if not two, book photos? Indeed, you would be correct. However, the book I have chosen, Hannah’s Sabbath Dress, by Itzhak Schweiger-Dmi’el and illustrated by Ora Eithan, appears to be out of print. Woop...


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Hello (and goodbye) To All That

Hello (and goodbye) To All That: A Memoir of a Changing New York City in the 21st Century

Written by: Jonathan Liebson

Read by: Andrew Gibson

May 6, 2025, Post Hill Books (audio is Tantor Media)

240 pages, or 6 hours and 39 minutes

We are living in historical times. The news cycle is ever churning, technology ever advancing...


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Reading The Torah With BookishlyJewish – Ki Tisa

Ki Tisa has some very obvious themes, including the forgiveness for the sin of the golden calf, but I’m am choosing to go in another direction for this weeks book selection. On the heels of cookbook week, I feel it is appropriate to note that amidst the building of the temple sinks, the sin of the golden calf, and Moses literally seeing God, there are several lines ...


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