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Cascade by Maryanne O’Hara

October 11, 2013

I’d anticipated reading Cascade, because its central action is a source of sad fascination: the deliberate flooding of several small …

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A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

July 1, 2013

A Trick of the Light opens with a vernissage, the preview of an art exhibition before its formal opening. Patient, …

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The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

March 1, 2013

One bitter winter day back in the early 1980s, my boyfriend (now my husband) introduced me to the Isabella Stewart …

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Fours books + blizzard = coincidental reading

February 10, 2013

Thanks to Blizzard Nemo, I’ve had the opportunity to curl up with four books, bouncing back and forth as the …

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2013: Still Life, and others by Louise Penny

January 14, 2013

My first books of the new year are detective novels in a series by Canadian writer Louise Penny. Some fictional …

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37 of 55:The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt

August 10, 2012

I love how A.S. Byatt writes—and I haven’t read enough of her work, as a glance at her list of …

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36 of 55: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

August 7, 2012

After stocking up on a hefty stack of gently-used books at the Quaker Book Sale last month, I re-assessed my …

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27 of 55: Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

May 28, 2012

Lisa See‘s previous novel, Shanghai Girls, followed the lives of sisters Pearl and May, first in China (racing to escape …

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23 of 55: How Georgia Became O’Keeffe by Karen Karbo

May 11, 2012

Author Karen Karbo knows her audience; she suggests that the reader either received this book as a gift or picked …

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