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The Everygirl’s Guide to Life, by Maria Menounos
Maria Menounos is one of those people who has sort of been on my peripheral radar for a long time. She’s not super famous, so I didn’t pay a lot of attention to her, but her career (she’s an actress, a producer and a journalist/host) always struck me as interesting, so that, combined with the [...]
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Sarah Addison Allen: The Peach Keeper
Sarah Addison Allen said it best when she described her books as “Southern-fried magical realism.” That’s an almost perfect description of her work: her novels are always set in the Carolinas and food features heavily in most of them. But it’s the spark of magical realism that keeps readers coming back. Whether it’s the throwing [...]
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Sarah Addison Allen does it again
I’ve mentioned before how much I love Sarah Addison Allen’s writing. Her books sparkle with magic, yet her characters are realistically flawed. In her latest novel, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, we meet young Emily, who, after the death of her mother, has gone to live with a grandfather she’s never met. A quiet [...]
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Recent Read: enLIGHTened
In this yoga memoir, author Jessica Berger Gross details how she “lost 40 pounds with a yoga mat, fresh pineapples, and a Beagle-Pointer.” With a subtitle like that, I had to read this book. It’s a very relatable tale. After a challenging childhood (including an abusive father and an exhausted, cowed mother), college-age Jessica finds [...]
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Recent Read: The Wishing Year
In this magical memoir, author Noelle Oxenhandler explores the power (and danger) of the art of wishing. After a series of tumultuous personal events, Oxenhandler finds herself divorced, spiritually bereft and raising her daughter alone in a rental house. Simultaneously envious and suspicious of her friend Carole’s ability to manifest her desires through wishing (a [...]
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Sarah Addison Allen is a must read
One really cold evening last winter, I snuggled up with a blanket and a space heater and dove into the debut novel by an author I’d never heard of: Sarah Addison Allen. I devoured the book, Garden Spells, in a matter of hours; it captivated me from page one. Allen’s writing is somewhat similar to [...]
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