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Mar 20
1 min

Where the Crawdads Sing: A Novel

Author Delia Owens is a zoologist, as a reader will realize. "Where the Crawdads Sing" paints a picture of the outer banks of North Carol...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Oct 6, 2019
2 min

We Can All Use a "Which Way Tree"

Texas author and Spur Award Winner Elizabeth Crook brings home another winner with her historical fiction in "The Which Way Tree." It's t...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Apr 12, 2019
2 min

A Writer Adds Spice

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni--a mouthful of a name to remember for this Texan, but well worth the effort when searching for her many books....

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Dana Glossbrenner

Jan 18, 2019
2 min

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith): A Review

I've buried my head in some wonderful books in the past year--The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow ...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Aug 6, 2018
2 min

A Review of Iain Pears' "Stone's Fall"

The central mystery of Iain Pears’ Stone’s Fall concerns how John Stone died. Was the rich and powerful ship-building magnate pushed from...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Oct 18, 2017
4 min

A Man Called Ove: A Review

Swedish author Frederick Backman was repeatedly rejected in his attempt to publish his novel, A Man Called Ove. One publisher told him hi...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Jun 15, 2017
2 min

A Review of Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow"

Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, saved from being shot after the Russian Revolution because a poem attributed to him expressed the People's...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Feb 6, 2017
3 min

Book Review: The Gold Coast, by Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille’s The Gold Coast, a bestseller from 1990, is a lasting classic. Author of crime series thrillers and a host of other works...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Feb 2, 2017
2 min

A Review of "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry," by Gabrielle Zevin

A.J. Fikry is a misanthrope, a misfit, a learned man of books whose irascibility would drive his customers at Island Bookstore elsewhere w...

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Dana Glossbrenner

Jan 8, 2017
1 min

"Listen for the Mourning Dove": A Review

I read this book by a fellow West Texas lady, F.C. Pearce, between bouts of cooking for all my beloved Christmas company. It wasn't about...

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