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Drink wine with a robust heart. Oh yes—God takes pleasure in your pleasure! Dress festively every morning. Don’t skimp on colors and...
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kelliebooksblog
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Creativity Poll: Who said it?
"Creativity is a mysterious thing. It visits who it wants to visit, when it wants to, and I think that that, and that alone, gets to the...
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kelliebooksblog
- Nov 30
- 1 min
Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
1992, HarperCollins In these short stories set in Washington D.C., the author of The Known World invites the reader to see the uniqueness...
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kelliebooksblog
- Nov 26
- 2 min
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma 2014, Penguin Books "...most human suffering is related to love and loss..."(p 30)...
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kelliebooksblog
- Nov 16
- 1 min
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Chona runs a grocery store in the poor section of town, and refuses to move when her husband starts moving up in the world. She loves her...
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kelliebooksblog
- Nov 9
- 1 min
Thoughts on Gender
Not all cultures have the same outlook on gender. For example, Native North American societies use the expression Two-Spirits to...
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kelliebooksblog
- Nov 8
- 3 min
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2022, Harper In Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver courageously tackles two crises in the United States: a deficient foster child care system,...
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kelliebooksblog
- Nov 2
- 2 min
The People's Plaza by Justin Jones
2022, Vanderbilt University Press This book is a witness and a guide to non-violent resistance against racism and injustice. Justin Jones...
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kelliebooksblog
- Oct 26
- 3 min
Bury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca
1995, Vintage For a long time I've been wanting to learn more about Travellers or Roma, also called Gypsies, a term sometimes considered...
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kelliebooksblog
- Oct 19
- 1 min
Strange Gardens by Michel Quint
Effroyable jardins, original French title, 2000 I found this short novella lying around the house and decided to read it. It's told by a...
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kelliebooksblog
- Oct 13
- 3 min
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
My bookies* Jane, Yvonne and I read Louise Kennedy's first novel many months ago. Longlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize, it's about a...
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kelliebooksblog
- Oct 4
- 2 min
Recent reads
With Autumn in, I feel the need to rapidly record my rare reads of the receding-out-to-sea summer. Rrrrrrrrrright. Rememberings, Sinéad...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 19
- 1 min
Summer streams
I saw no movies this summer until September, when I made up for it, starting with Oppenheimer, which Kat and I went to see on a hot sunny...
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kelliebooksblog
- Sep 17
- 1 min
Daisy has her Day
Daisy never pays attention to artwork around the house. I mean, she's never said a single word about the framed photo with her boyfriend...
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kelliebooksblog
- Aug 25
- 1 min
Hubert's beach book
Afters years of resistance to my family's happy-to-sit-on-the-beach-all-day inertia, Hubert appears to have finally given up on the...
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kelliebooksblog
- Aug 20
- 1 min
Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannon
Persephone Books Guest Review by Susan Hudson After bringing up children, Priscilla is left asking herself, what was it all for? This...
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kelliebooksblog
- Aug 10
- 2 min
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride
1996, Riverhead Books This book is a classic I hadn't heard of until Yvonne lent it to me. I loved it. James McBride and his many...
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kelliebooksblog
- Aug 3
- 1 min
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
1994, St. Martin's Press Even if you walk the same road a hundred times, you'll find something different each time. (211) I especially...
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kelliebooksblog
- Jul 27
- 1 min
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère
2000, Folio On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, their 2 children and his parents, and attempted to kill his mistress....
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kelliebooksblog
- Jul 21
- 1 min
I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
2021, HQ, Harper Collins Publishers Esther Safran Foer recounts the search for her family's Ukrainian past in this Holocaust memoir. Her...
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