Books
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“One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway” by Åsne Seierstad
As is the case for me with most good books, I found myself frequently trying to talk to people about One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway…
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The Best Books I Read in 2016
*As a quick note, the links I’ve added for purchasing physical books will direct you to my favorite local indie bookstore in Central North Carolina, Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, but finding independent…
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“My Last Continent” by Midge Raymond
I’m not giving anything away when I say that My Last Continent by Midge Raymond is a romantic tragedy. Very early on in reading this novel the reader is told that there is…
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“Wintering” by Peter Geye
Wintering begins when elderly Harry Eide disappears from his sickbed and vanishes into the forbidding, northernmost wilderness that surrounds the town of Gunflint, Minnesota…a wilderness he has known his whole life. He’d done…
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7 Passages from Emma Cline’s “The Girls” That Killed Me
Emma Cline’s debut novel is set for release this summer. June 14th to be exact. It’s been a year and a half since the novel set off a bidding war between publishing houses,…
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“Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing is set to be published this upcoming June. She is only 26 years old and has managed to score a seven figure deal for her first book. Sometimes…
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“Fallen Land” by Taylor Brown
As the former director of a monthly first editions fiction bookclub and a current reader on the selection committee for one, I have been asked more than once just what literary fiction actually…