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Bitches to the ER, stat!
24 Medical Books for Your Inner Meredith Grey
juliegilkison
Nov 12, 20202 min read
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Grab Her a Kleenex: Barb's Reading Patricia Polacco Again
Grab the tissues!
bsgilki
Nov 5, 20202 min read
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Review: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
A great story of love and survival.
bsgilki
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
A creepy, eerie, fascinating story of survival, love, and a culture you might not ever know anything about.
Both
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
It's a coming of age novel about Sylvia Plath's extraordinary, unfortunately short life. It's autobiographical, it's poetic, you find...
juliegilkison
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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Authors We Love, Part 1: Our Main Bitches
These ladies are my most-recommended, my most-loved, my dream writing partners.
Both
Oct 16, 20201 min read
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Julie's Top 10 Books of 2019
History, nonfiction, and a whole lot of girl power.
juliegilkison
Oct 14, 20201 min read
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8 Pandemic-y Books to Read During Corona-Times
Sci-Fi, YA, classics, future dystopians, nonfiction: we've got a spoonful of book medicine for everyone.
Both
Sep 28, 20202 min read
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Barb's Favorite Books of 2019
My top ten books of 2019
bsgilki
Sep 26, 20201 min read
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Review: The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
A good read if you like WWII books
bsgilki
Sep 1, 20201 min read
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Review: The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
The Last Full Measure is a part of a trilogy about the Civil War.
Both
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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Review: Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
Gods and Generals is apart of a trilogy about the Civil War. It serves as the prequel to Killer Angels and takes place from 1858-1863.
Both
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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Review: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Classic Lisa See - girl power, family saga, historical events.
bsgilki
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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Review: China Dolls by Lisa See
Lisa See has done it again!
bsgilki
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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Review: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
The true story of Hedy Lamarr! So much more than being an actress.
bsgilki
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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Review: The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
I have never read or seen an 9/11 piece like this.
juliegilkison
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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Review: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
It won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was in both of our top tens for 2019--Basically the same prestige
Both
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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Review: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Race, immigration, terrorism, the economy, corruption, and class are all themes in this saga that takes place in Boston and Tulsa in 1918.
Both
Aug 25, 20201 min read
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Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A mother-daughter relationship, the struggles of being a woman in Afghanistan during the Taliban's reign, prejudice, stigmas, and loss.
Both
Aug 25, 20201 min read
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Review: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner is one of the best books I've read that I think everyone should read
Both
Aug 25, 20201 min read
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