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    Review: The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments

    by Ashley November 16, 2020
    by Ashley November 16, 2020

    I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale for the first time as a college freshman. I didn’t have the words to adequately describe patriarchy or societal patterns of misogyny, yet. Atwood’s work, including much of her poetry, was integral to…

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    Review: Sugar Run

    by Ashley October 22, 2020
    by Ashley October 22, 2020

    I have been reading a lot of books that represent the LGBTQ community and my home state of West Virginia lately, but I never expected the two to intersect. When I scrolled through the synopsis for Sugar Run by Mesha…

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    Review: Enter the Aardvark

    by Katie October 5, 2020
    by Katie October 5, 2020

    Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony is odd. And funny. And contains everything from magical happenings, to a right wing Congressman, to a stuffed aardvark with a dark past, all in 183 pages.  The Summary:  Congressman Alexander Paine Wilson wakes…

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    Women In Translation Month August 2020

    by Catherine August 1, 2020
    by Catherine August 1, 2020

    Women In Translation Month is an anual event which takes place each August and brings together women writers from around the world.

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    Review: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

    by Catherine June 30, 2020
    by Catherine June 30, 2020

    The Summary Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman follows Keiko Furukura, a 36-year-old woman who works part time in a convenience store. Keiko likes working at the convenience store as it lets her observe the “normal” people she works with and…

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    Review: Commonwealth, Patron Saint of Liars, and The Dutch House

    by Anne June 21, 2020
    by Anne June 21, 2020

    My mom introduced me to Ann Patchett when I was desperately hunting for new reading material after I graduated from college last spring. The heavy literary works I’d read as a fourth year English major had depleted my desire for…

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    Review: Where the Crawdads Sing

    by Caleigh April 20, 2020
    by Caleigh April 20, 2020

    Note: Joli has also reviewed this book. Find her review here. I have been waiting on my library’s waitlist for Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens for MONTHS. Not because the library didn’t have a lot of copies (they…

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    Review: Dear Edward

    by Joli April 7, 2020
    by Joli April 7, 2020

    This book gave me sooo many feels. All the feels. I wondered when I started it why it seemed like so much is given away in the summary (the plane crash), but I soon saw that this book is SO…

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    The Incendiaries: A Review

    by Katie February 16, 2020
    by Katie February 16, 2020

    Have you ever looked at a picture of a dish from a fancy restaurant, or maybe you’ve had this thought when eating at one yourself, and wondered why the portions are so small? After all, if you’re presumably shelling out…

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    Review: Maggie’s Ruse

    by Caleigh November 21, 2019
    by Caleigh November 21, 2019

    My little sister and I are very alike. If we still lived in the same city, I have no doubt at this point we would definitely get a lot more questions about whether we are fraternal twins. However, I can’t…

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