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Category Archives: 55 @ 55

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison H. Bartlett

December 30, 2012

BONUS: A final book for “55 at 55” Bookstores and libraries are magical places, inviting us to discover new reading …

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55 of 55: The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell

December 27, 2012

I began my year of “55 books at age 55” with an A: Alice I Have Been. So it’s fitting …

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54 of 55: The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

December 19, 2012

Most of us know Flannery O’Connor from her classic short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953), the …

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53 of 55: Imagined London by Anna Quindlen

December 17, 2012

I like Anna Quindlen’s writing: novels such as Black and Blue and essays enjoyed over the years. I have a …

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52: Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King

December 4, 2012

Long live the detective novel, done well. I’ve spent the weekend in 1924 Morocco, an occasionally harrowing but continually captivating …

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51: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

November 25, 2012

I’d never heard of Cloud Atlas—published in 2004—until my friend Dan mentioned that he was reading it in advance of …

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50: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson

November 4, 2012

This seemed like an ideal book for me: set in a small English village and featuring an intelligent, charmingly old-fashioned …

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49: Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman

October 30, 2012

I’ve been struggling to write about some of the books I’ve been reading lately, three of them mysteries: this one …

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47 & 48: The House at Sea’s End & A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths

October 29, 2012

Having read the next two entries in the Ruth Galloway series, I’d planned to crow about being caught up. But …

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46: Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce

October 3, 2012

If you glance through the writers represented on this blog, you’ll find few men. Over the years, I’ve been disappointed …

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