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March 16, 2014

Book Review: The Land of Steady Habits

March 16, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

An affluent suburban family breaks apart and re-forms in this remarkably assured debut novel

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March 16, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, March 2014, open letters weekly, ted thompson, the land of steady habits
March 16, 2014

Book Review: Cambridge

March 16, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A precocious young girl and her family travel far and wide from her beloved home of Cambridge, Massachusetts

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March 16, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
Cambridge, contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2014, open letters weekly, susanna kaysen
February 01, 2014

Book Review: An Unnecessary Woman

February 01, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In chaos-plagued Beirut, a voracious reader lives an oddly fulfilling secret life

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February 01, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
an unnecessary woman, contemporary fiction, February 2014, open letters weekly, rabih alameddine
January 30, 2014

Book Review: Orfeo

January 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A retired small-town music professor becomes an unlikely fugitive from the law in Richard Powers' latest novel

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January 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, January 2014, open letters weekly, orfeo, richard powers
January 30, 2014

Book Review: The Crane Wife

January 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

When an ordinary man pulls an arrow from the wing of a crane, extraordinary things begin to happen in the new novel by Patrick Ness

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January 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, January 2014, open letters weekly, patrick ness, the crane wife
January 30, 2014

Book Review: Alena

January 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Don't be fooled by the "Rebecca" echoes - there's a lot more to Rachel Pastan's "Alena" than mere Manderley-redux

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January 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
alena, contemporary fiction, Daphne du Maurier, fiction, January 2014, open letters weekly, rachel pastan, Rebecca
January 20, 2014

Book Review: Leaving the Sea

January 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A new collection of old short stories from the writer of "The Flame Alphabet"

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January 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
ben marcus, contemporary fiction, January 2014, leaving the sea, open letters weekly
September 19, 2013

Book Review: Graphic the Valley

September 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A young man born and raised in the wild of Yosemite Valley is forced into a series of confrontations with an encroaching outside world.

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September 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, fiction, graphic the valley, open letters weekly, peter brown hoffmeister, September 2013
July 15, 2013

Book Review: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

July 15, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A self-absorbed young Brooklyn writer (what else?) goes from relationship to relationship in search of ... what, exactly?

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July 15, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
adele waldman, contemporary fiction, fiction, July 2013, open letters weekly, the love affairs of nathaniel p
March 30, 2013

Book Review: The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones

March 30, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Jack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality

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March 30, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, jack wolf, March 2013, open letters weekly, the tale of raw head & bloody bones
March 27, 2013

Book Review: Abide with Me

March 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In a novel that's not as easy as it looks, a soldier comes home to his small Vermont town from Afghanistan - and to the young woman he left behind there.

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March 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
abide with me, contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2013, open letters weekly, sabin willett
March 20, 2013

Book Review: Honor

March 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The barbaric custom of 'honor killing' is the hinge on which best-selling author Elif Shafak's complex new novel turns

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March 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, elif shafak, fiction, honor, March 2013
March 20, 2013

Book Review: The Sunshine When She's Gone

March 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

With the arrival of a new baby, a young Brooklyn couple say good-bye to sleep ... and start making some very strange decisions.

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March 20, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2013, the sunshine when she's gone, thea goodman
March 19, 2013

Book Review: All the Light There Was

March 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance

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March 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
all the light there was, armenian genocide, contemporary fiction, fiction, historical fiction, March 2013, nancy kricorian, world war two
March 17, 2013

Book Review: The Blue Book

March 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A young woman finds herself on a ship at sea with both her fiance and a mysterious man from her past, and it's all like something you'd find in a book ...

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March 17, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
a- l- kennedy, contemporary fiction, fiction, March 2013, open letters weekly, the blue book
March 16, 2013

Book Review: The Carriage House

March 16, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A patrician family copes with all kinds of disappointment in Louisa Hall's not-at-all-disappointing debut novel

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March 16, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
contemporary fiction, fiction, louisa hall, March 2013, open letters weekly, the carriage house
February 21, 2013

Book Review: The Average American Marriage

February 21, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The horny, feckless narrator of Kultgen's "The Average American Male" returns: married, with kids - and, of course, lusting after a co-worker

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February 21, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
chad kultgen, contemporary fiction, February 2013, fiction, the average american marriage
February 11, 2013

Book Review: A Week in Winter

February 11, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Unsure of what to do with her life, a woman turns an old stone house into an inn on the coast of Ireland, and strangers begin to gather ...

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February 11, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
a week in winter, contemporary fiction, February 2013, fiction, maeve binchy
February 10, 2013

Book Review: I Will Have Vengeance

February 10, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

In 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi pursues the most desperate of criminals, driven by an absolute commitment to justice - and helped by a gift he alone possesses.

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February 10, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
commissario ricciardi, contemporary fiction, europa editions, February 2013, fiction, i will have vengeance, maurizio de giovanni
February 02, 2013

Book Review: Ways of Going Home

February 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The newest novel from the newest Chilean literary wunderkind

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February 02, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
alejandro zambra, contemporary fiction, February 2013, fiction, megan mcdowell, ways of going home
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