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Cat on Cat’s
I have wrestled with how to write about Cat’s Cradle for a long time now. I wanted to deliver something wonderful and insightful to The Scramble because this book deserves that. So here’s…
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Why I Stopped reading this book on Page 72
The Book: A Killer in the Wind by Andrew Klavan Why I stopped reading this book on page 71: Reason 1. You didn’t have me at Hello. I often skip over the acknowledgements…
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The Seduction and Romance of Faulty Memory, Part Two: Every time she turns around my mother is forgetting something
Every time she turns around my mother is forgetting something. She may pick up and look with pure delight at an inexpensive bauble then set it down. Five seconds later she’ll pick it…
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In Cold Blood and Rule Rules
Once in a while I go on a crime spree. I binge on true crime novels. The best of the best is In Cold Blood. It reads like a novel. In fact, when…
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Evelyn Sibley Lampman wrote kick-ass YA books in the 1960’s
notes: Long before there was dystopian YA this and that; long before YA tackled subjects like teen pregnancy, broken homes, drug abuse; way before all that there was Evelyn Sibley Lampman and she…
