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July 2021

Kym's bookshelf: currently-reading

Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age

by Mary Pipher

The Dakota Winters

by Tom Barbash

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

by Isabel Wilkerson

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When I was an early reader, I loved reading biographies of famous Americans. I used to hunt down any biographies on famous women Americans . . . but as you can imagine, the pickings were slim in the late 1960s/early 1970s. (I was limited...

The Friend

by Sigrid Nunez

“What we miss – what we lose and what we mourn – isn’t it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are." Despite being a dog-lover, I avoid reading books about dogs (I am, indeed, one of those readers who anxiously wonders: “Does som...

Bowlaway

by Elizabeth McCracken

What would you like for your birthday, Grandma? Oh, nothing, she would say. Or, I’ll love anything you give me. A lie. Since childhood she’d only ever wanted one thing: a box filled with a substance she couldn’t imagine that would change...

The Moth Catcher

by Ann Cleeves

Solid and well-crafted. Good plot that moves right along. I enjoy mysteries-with-more (the more being strong, well-developed characters) – and this series really fills the bill. I find Vera to be an engaging and refreshing crime-solver, ...

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

by Carol Rifka Brunt

Let me begin by saying . . . I am not a fan of YA literature. I put off reading this book for years because I understood it to be YA fiction. After reading it, I still think that, yes . . . this book is YA fiction. Top quality YA fiction...

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