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30 Books in 30 Beach Days Day 24: "Netherland"

Today's review is of Joseph O'Neill's beautiful post-colonial novel, Netherland. Most of the novel is told in an extended flashback,...

If we're going to run the full literary gamut in this 30 books series, we're going to need to include something by Shakespeare. I have a...

"Delightful" isn't often a word you'd think of to describe a post-revolutionary Russian novel. But Amor Towles' year-old novel A...

With everything going on in the news, today feels like a particularly good day to share a particularly good book from the particularly...

Ah, the good 'ol marriage plot: something every diligent English major knows (and has read) intimately. The traditional marriage plot...

Are you shocked? This is the first time I've ever written a review for a work of non-fiction here. It feels weird. But summer wouldn't...

Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate is a beautiful, vivid picture of magical realism, set in Mexico. It is a star-crossed love...

I'm torn about today's review of the epic Ken Follett novel The Pillars of the Earth, because I liked the story and appreciated the...

After a few days in New Hampshire, back to our regularly-scheduled programming! Hiking through the White Mountains in New Hampshire this...

On the verge of the weekend, I have an exciting suggestion for your beach read: a throwback to the mid-90s, a time before even Harry...

Though I now live in a city (hi, Boston), I am at heart a lover of the small town. So much so, in fact, that I wrote my college thesis...

You can breeze through this next book, A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, in an afternoon at the beach as you gaze out at the sea and...

Inspired by yesterday’s review and recent languid summer days, we’ll continue the trend of simplicity with today’s review of Elizabeth...

Today, on a slow and sun-drenched Sunday, it is time to share one of my favorite books of all time. I wrote my college senior thesis on...

Where’d You Go, Bernadette is the perfect beach read: funny and fun, part mystery, with strong messages of self-love and...