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Carolyn’s 2025 Year in Books
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Carolyn Whitzman
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What's Truth Got to Do with It?
What an interesting article in Quill and Quire about Clara Ford's stories and the nature of truth! https://quillandquire.com/authors/in-...
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| Biblical fanfiction is a sub-genre that has thrown up a few good books, like The Red Tent. The Secret Chord is another good book. Geraldine Brooks does an excellent job of grappling with the mythic and complex figure of David: the poet of the psalms, ...more | |
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| Yes, I immediately abandoned everything to read Spent. Alison Bechtel is such a great, funny writer that I’ll even forgive her occasionally twee auto-fiction. Besides, who hasn’t fantasized the tv version of their childhood starring Sarah Paulson, Be ...more | |
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| It’s rare to read a book where the CIA are the good guys. This is about the soft suasion of books and magazines smuggled into Eastern Europe, especially Poland, during the Cold War. There are some good stories of espionage and resistance to oppressio ...more | |
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| Memorial Days is an elegant and terse account of the death of Tony Horwitz, Geraldine Brooks’ husband. The memoir has two timelines: one, the immediate aftermath of his sudden death, has some good things to say about the current casual brutality of A ...more | |
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| This is an impressive yet oddly underwhelming book. Holly Tucker does a good job of summarising the Affair of the Poisons, a 17th century scandal that involved literally hundreds of people involved in murder and satanic practices, and reached all the ...more | |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris:
"I struggled between giving this book either 2 or 3 stars. The history was really interesting, but I thought the book was very hard to follow. There were so many characters introduced which I thought were not fully explained or developed that it was s"
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| This is an impressive yet oddly underwhelming book. Holly Tucker does a good job of summarising the Affair of the Poisons, a 17th century scandal that involved literally hundreds of people involved in murder and satanic practices, and reached all the ...more | |
“The National Council of Women in Canada was appalled by these judicial attitudes. It pointed out, before and after the Seduction Act, that "false charges of this kind ae of very rare occurrence." In fact, the obverse was true. It was almost impossible to get a woman to press charges of seduction or rape because her sexual background would then be put under scrutiny.”
― Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder that Shocked Toronto
― Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder that Shocked Toronto
Read Whatever You Want Book Clubs
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A place to meet fellow book nerds, to discuss whatever it is you’re reading, to be inspired by what others are reading, and to be motivated to find ti ...more
