By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 30th, 2019
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Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “I let words like responsible and capable govern many of my years. And what good are they? Words that I’m choosing in this season: passion, connection, meaning, love, grace, spirit.” Shauna, like so many of us, found herself spinning...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 3rd, 2019
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The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She could never explain this to her daughter. You made me recognize that my heart is, in fact, a bottomless hole of simultaneous pleasure and despair. You gave my life meaning and ruined it at the same time.” Lombardo’s debut no...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Dec 3rd, 2019
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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “We love broken beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.” It’s about a girl, it’s about a band, it’s about love, it’s about self-destruction. It’s the 7...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 28th, 2019
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City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.” The novel follows Vivian Morris, a privileged girl who moves to NYC in the 1940s. A college [&he...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 7th, 2019
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Alligator Zoo-Park Magic by C.H. Hooks REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The carelessness of belief in magic was much at odds with the precision of an illusion…Jeffers was making something. He built something big where nothing much was.” Hooks’ debut novel is a carnival ride of sorts through a southern to...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Oct 7th, 2019
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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Six or twelve. That’s your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.” Tayari Jones’s novel explores being black in America. She strategically catalogues the perspectives of three African-American people with different ba...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Aug 30th, 2019
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Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens | Review by Meredith McKinnie “A great blue heron is the color of gray mist reflecting in blue water. And like mist, she can fade into the backdrop…she is a patient, solitary hunter, standing alone as long as it takes to snatch her prey.” In the debut novel [&he...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jul 29th, 2019
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple | review by Meredith McKinnie “No matter what people say about Mom now, she sure knew how to make life funny.” Bernadette Fox is a creative, eccentric woman, who’s wealth allows her the freedom to be a little crazy. She obsesses over fishing vests with numer...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jul 29th, 2019
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The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn | Review by Meredith McKinnie “I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s something nobody knows about.” Finn’s psychological thriller takes readers into the educated, yet obsessive mind of Dr. Anna Fox suffering from agoraphobia, having not left her home...
By Nathan Coker
In Bayou Pages
Jun 30th, 2019
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Becomingby Michelle Obama | review by Meredith McKinnie In the former First Lady’s autobiographical memoir, readers are shown an intimate look at the woman herself. To the public, she emerged out of her husband’s shadow, but in the book she has created a space all her own, from her meager beginnings ...
