By Reagan Henderson
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Aug 1st, 2021
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “She’d wanted to remember everything so she could feel him with her and be comforted by that. She’d sought those memories, they were the balm she needed. And of course they were exactly also the wounds she needed balm for.” Sue Miller writes beautifully about grief, ...
By Reagan Henderson
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Aug 1st, 2021
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REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “One thing I have learned is that one must grab at the chances life offers – taste the fruit, drink the wine. At the hour of one’s death there will be no solace in knowing that one has known one’s place or lived safely.” Selina Lennox is the quintessential post-World...
By Reagan Henderson
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Jun 30th, 2021
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by Zadie SmithReview by Meredith McKinnie “The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.” Howard is an untenured university professor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. The white patriarch of his mixed family, he struggles to understand who he is and where he belongs in this f...
By Reagan Henderson
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Jun 30th, 2021
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by Vendela VidaReview by Meredith McKinnie “We are thirteen, almost fourteen, and these streets of Sea Cliff are ours. We walk these streets to our school perched high over the Pacific and we run these streets to the beaches, which are cold, windswept, full of fishermen and freaks. We know these wide...
By Reagan Henderson
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Jun 30th, 2021
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by S.A. CosbyBook review by Meredith McKinnie “A mistake is a lesson, unless you make the same mistake twice.” Cosby’s crime novel is an adrenaline-pumping, high-speed thriller that keeps readers gripping their seats with one hand while furiously turning pages with the other. The action starts in the...
By Reagan Henderson
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May 28th, 2021
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NIGHTSTANDS & COFFEE TABLESREVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The belief that they were special, that they had the stones to endure what others couldn’t, was the most quintessentially Texas thing about them. It was an arrogance born of genuine fortitude and a streak of hardheadedness, six generations d...
By Reagan Henderson
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Apr 29th, 2021
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by Georgia Hunter REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Months later, in a different world, Nechuma will look back on this evening, the last Passover when they were nearly all together, and wish with every cell of her body that she could relive it.” The author Georgia Hunter grew up in the comfort of America...
By Reagan Henderson
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Apr 29th, 2021
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by Kate Morton REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “There are few certainties in this world, but I will tell you something I know: the truth depends on who it is that’s telling the story.” I am so in love with this book. Kate Morton creates a timeless, century-shifting examination of people connected via the...
By Reagan Henderson
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Mar 29th, 2021
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by Brit Bennett REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “Maybe it was a mistake to return to Mallard. Maybe they should have gone somewhere new, started over fresh. But it was too late now for regrets. She could already hear the river. She started toward it, her daughter hanging heavy around her neck. The river ...
By Reagan Henderson
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Mar 29th, 2021
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by Lou Berney REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “The past had power. The past was a riptide. That’s why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn’t go in the water.” Two mysteries rocked Oklahoma City in the late 80s. A movie theater robbery turned mass murder left one young man wondering why he […...
