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I've had the good fortune to fall in love with Agatha Christie's murder mysteries twice.
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Chris Hewitt | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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10/22/20
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The leaves are turning, the air is crisper, the bookstores are open ... and you need a new paperback, don't you? Here are six freshly minted ones for fall reading.
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By Moira Macdonald | The Seattle Times
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10/15/20
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My husband and I might move. (Then again, we might not.) As we spend more and more time in our house, thanks to pandemic work-from-home mandates, we see its flaws, and we dream of perfection.
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By Laurie Hertzel | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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8/20/20
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Laura Lippman's new essay collection, "My Life as a Villainess," couldn't be more timely. Given the selection last week of Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, we're in for three months of pundits droning on about her likability.
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By Colette Bancroft | Tampa Bay Times
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8/20/20
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Good news for DC fans: DC's virtual fan event will now take place over two separate weekends.
On Wednesday, DC announced that DC FanDome has been expanded into two separate events.
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By Tracy Brown | Los Angeles Times
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8/20/20
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Eric Utne's "Far Out Man" annoyed me until I started to love it.
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By Chris Hewitt | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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7/30/20
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Despite William Shakespeare's singular position at the peak of Western literature, we know vanishingly little about the man himself.
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By Colette Bancroft | Tampa Bay Times
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7/30/20
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Looking for a silver lining, we seized on how the stay-at-home mandates of living through a pandemic (and other dire things) would give us more time — hopefully, more time to read.
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By Laurie Hertzel | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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7/30/20
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This memoir busts a lot of stereotypes in a delightful way.
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By Laurie Hertzel | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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7/23/20
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LOS ANGELES — In a public address to "Jeopardy!" viewers last week, Alex Trebek assured fans that he was fine. "Feeling great," in fact.
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By Amy Kaufman | Los Angeles Times
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7/23/20
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"Never Ask Me" by Jeff Abbott; Grand Central (368 pages, $27)
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By Oline H. Cogdill | Sun Sentinel
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7/23/20
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"Bright Precious Thing" by Gail Caldwell; Random House (208 pages, $27)
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By Pamela Miller | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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7/9/20
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MINNEAPOLIS — When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Geri Chavis knew what would help soothe her soul and those of the people she loves: Poems.
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By Gail Rosenblum | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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7/2/20
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A dead man is the central character in Joyce Carol Oates' timely, monumental new novel "Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.," whose title echoes a gut-punching Walt Whitman poem.
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By Pamela Miller | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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6/11/20
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We still can't travel much these days, but here's a ray of hope: Your neighborhood bookstore is probably open for curbside service.
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By Moira Macdonald | The Seattle Times
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6/11/20
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Time for a paperback roundup! Here are six potentially intoxicating reads — and, did you know your local indie bookstore is quite possibly open for curbside service?
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By Moira Macdonald | The Seattle Times
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6/4/20
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The cartoonish names of the main characters (Serenata Terpsichore, Remington Alabaster, Bambi Buffer) in Lionel Shriver's new novel are the first clues that the book is satire.
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By Laurie Hertzel | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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5/21/20
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It's an annual tradition for Bill Gates — Microsoft co-founder, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and avid reader — to release a summer reading list in May.
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By Moira Macdonald | The Seattle Times
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5/21/20
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Jane Austen was most ungenerous to Mary Bennet.
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By Maureen McCarthy And Marci Schmitt | Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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5/21/20
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Here comes the "Midnight Sun."
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By Christi Carras | Los Angeles Times
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5/5/20
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