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Title of READ HER LIKE AN OPEN BOOK: "READ HER LIKE AN OPEN BOOK – Celebrating literary fiction by women"

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I didn’t plan for this topic of “must-read books you might have missed” to be a three-part series, but the first part got such a positive response that I decided to do a second. Then the same thing happened with Part 2, so I figured I’d push my luck and regale you with one more. […]


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Continuing on from my post of January 14 about books that deserve more attention, here are five more books I enjoyed. They were published between 2014 and 2025 and are set in Italy, North Korea, China, Israel, Brooklyn, and a beehive (yes, a beehive). I hope you find something here to add to your reading […]


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A few times a year I write about books that for some reason did not get the attention they deserved. I base that conclusion on the fact that I haven’t seen many posts about them on social media or reviews in established book review publications. In a few cases, a book gained traction for a […]


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One of the best books I read in 2025 was Jessica Francis Kane’s novel Fonseca. It’s an extraordinary work of empathic and gently comedic imagination, based on real events in the life of British novelist, biographer, and critic Penelope Fitzgerald. In November 1952, Fitzgerald, pregnant with her third child, undertook an arduous trip to Mexico […]


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Alive and Beating By Rebecca Wolf Arbitrary Books, 2025 244 pages, $29.95 Imagine you need an organ transplant and are waiting desperately for one to become available. You know that only a tragedy for someone else will save you. The list of those needing transplants is far longer than the potential number of donor organs. […]


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