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Summertime reading catch-up: Becky Chambers’ ‘A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • August 29, 2017

Imagine Firefly. Imagine Firefly but written by a woman. Imagine Firefly but written by a woman with staunch feminist views. Imagine Firefly but written by a woman with staunch feminist…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Vivian Shaw’s ‘Strange Practice’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • August 24, 2017

Strange Practice is Vivian Shaw’s debut novel. I was excited about the concept of the novel from the beginning, and then I found out she has an undergrad degree in…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Sabaa Tahir’s ‘A Torch Against the Night’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • August 14, 2017

Lately I’ve been finding more and more fantasy literature, usually in the Young Adult genre, that isn’t set in some cultural conglomerate understanding of Medieval Western Europe. Contrary to popular…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Adelia Saunders’ ‘Indelible’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • July 26, 2017

Don’t tell me not to judge a book by its cover. Book covers are meant to be judged. That is why people are paid to create them: to be judged….

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Summertime reading catch-up: Catherine Lacey’s ‘The Answers’

  • Tim Steele
  • July 24, 2017

Catherine Lacey’s prose is stirringly (sometimes hauntingly) precise. The novel is composed of dense passages plunging into thought spirals, and the complexity with which Lacey renders the psychology of her…

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Summertime reading catch-up: 2017 indie book roundup

  • July 17, 2017

Fall’s indie books are here, and whether you’re interested in prison drama, dystopian science fiction, or a nonfiction page-turner, these five indie debuts may be what you’re looking for. Chosen…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Jordanna Max Brodsky’s ‘Winter of the Gods’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • July 17, 2017

I was excited to read and review Jordanna Max Brodsky’s Winter of the Gods. I loved the first book of the series, The Immortals: Imagine a feminist DaVinci Code written…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Laleh Khadivi’s ‘A Good Country’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • July 5, 2017

One of the reasons I read is to expand my worldview. To read about people who are unlike me. The characters of Laleh Khadivi’s A Good Country are about as…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Nina LaCour’s ‘We Are Okay’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • July 3, 2017

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour is the kind of book I wish I had gotten my hands on when I was a teenager. It is the kind of book…

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Summertime reading catch-up: Leigh Bardugo’s ‘Crooked Kingdom’

  • Cassie Duncanson
  • June 28, 2017

Last week I finished up my first year in my master’s program. I celebrated by doing absolutely nothing. I walked the dog. I drank many cups of coffee (that I…

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    • Grad Guide 2017

Six books you should read this summer

  • May 22, 2017

Fiction Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Annie Hartnett’s Rabbit Cake is a darkly funny novel about Elvis Babbitt, a 12-year-old girl who learns how to deal with grief following her…

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