Historical fiction is one of my passions, whether it’s presented as a period drama on the big or small screen, the stage, or in book form. That’s why I looked […]
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Author: Susan Higginbotham
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Fiction
Beautiful & Terrible Things
Author: S.M. Stevens
How do you decide what books to read? By favorite genre? The elevator pitch? the cover? I chose to read and review Beautiful & Terrible Things because it was outside […]
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The Causative Factor
Author: Megan Staffel
The Causative Factor is wonderfully original in so many ways—the characters, their careers (a plumber and an artist who makes complicated boxes), the plot twists, the settings (western New York […]
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From Ash to Ashes
Author: Krishma Tuli Arora
To me, one of the joys of reading is immersing myself in cultures or situations I know little about. This was the main reason I chose to read Krishma Tuli […]
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Beware the Tall Grass
Author: Ellen Birkett Morris
Ellen Birkett Morris’s novel Beware the Tall Grass (Columbus State University Press, March 2024) weaves what appear at first blush to be two disconnected stories together in ways that are […]
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The Rossetti Diaries
Author: Kathleen Williams Renk
Trends in art, music, literature, and life come and go, but author Kathleen Williams Renk uncovers a most interesting history regarding a group of artists rebelling against idealistic portrayals such […]
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