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Category: 2025
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by Fernanda Trías | Plucked from the staff recommendation shelves at East Bay Booksellers somewhat randomly. I devoured this slim, grim novel in two days. I can’t get the narrator or the boy she was caring for out of my head. My heart is all cracked and bruised from it. Set not in our pandemic…
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by Ocean Vuong | As one of the legions who fell hard for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, I can’t believe I’m giving Vuong’s sophomore novel just three stars. I will have to let it sit and write more later. My expectations were so high, so the disappointing elements really knocked me for a loop. I…
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by Percival Everett | I had heard all the praise for James, but it took me a while to sink into it. Just a few pages in you learn that Jim and all the other slaves speak refined English when amongst themselves, but to stay out of trouble they affect “slave talk” when white folks…
If I Had a Book Club 