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The Mothers

February 21, 2017 by Drew

The Short Version: Nadia is a high school senior, ready to escape her small California town for college. The abortion she has seems, at the time, to be the best choice – but while her life goes on without much pause, the lives of those around her are deeply affected and will be for the rest of their days. The Review: Another ToB Irregular wrote on Twitter that this book is an exploration of the following question: “What if your […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Abortion, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Brit Bennett, Family, Fiction, Literature, Religion, review, Reviews, Riverhead Books, The Mothers, The Tournament of Books 2017

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The Seed Collectors

January 9, 2017 by Drew

The Short Version: The Gardener Family has secrets. After the death of the eldest family member, some of those secrets begin to come to light – secrets of paternity, of love, of how the middle generation all died on a mysterious expedition, and of real world magic. The Review: It is a goddamn shame that just as Scarlett Thomas delivers her best novel so far, one that highlights all of her eccentricities and skills in perfect measure, that American audiences are […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 6, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Botany, Family, Favorites, Fiction, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, review, Reviews, Scarlett Thomas, Science, Speculative, The Seed Collectors

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You Will Know Me

December 19, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Devon is a young gymnast with incredible talent. Her family – and her gym – believe that she could make it to the Olympics and all of them do what they can to make sure she’s able to compete at the highest. But after tragedy strikes their small community, the lines between right and wrong are no longer so clear – and Devon’s mother Katie has to figure out if she ever really knew her daughter at […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crime, Family, Fiction, Gymnastics, Literature, Megan Abbott, Mystery, Reviews, You Will Know Me

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Roundup, September 2016

September 30, 2016 by Drew

James Bond: Vargr by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters 4 out of 5 The Short Version: After a revenge mission in Helsinki, Bond returns to London and is handed a case from his fallen comrade’s workload. A new drug has hit English shores and his job is to break up the trafficking operation – but what should be a simple in and out job turns out to be anything but. The Review: The idea of Warren Ellis taking on James […]

Categories: Fiction, Roundup • Tags: 007, A Chooseable Path Adventure, Action, Choose Your Own Adventure, Classics, Family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Hamlet, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reed, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Jason Masters, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Literature, Niels Lyhne, Philosophy, Ramona Ausubel, Riverhead, Ryan North, Shakespeare, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, Spy, Thriller, Tiina Nunnally, To Be or Not to Be, Transhumanism, Translation, Vargr, Warren Ellis, William Shakespeare

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The Wangs vs. the World

September 28, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Charles Wang came to America with next-to-nothing and turned himself into a makeup mogul. Two wives, three children, and a few decades later, he wakes up to find he’s lost everything in the early days of the 2008 financial crisis. So he packs up the car, picks up two of the kids, and drives across the US to meet the third – with the intention of, eventually, making his way back to China to reclaim the ancestral […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, America, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, China, Family, jade Chang, review, Reviews, The Wangs vs. the World

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The Curfew

September 23, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Molly’s mother was disappeared by the government when she was younger. Now, she and her father William (a violinist-turned-epitaphorist) live a quiet life in an increasingly violent and dangerous city where no one goes out after dark and people die in the streets. But when William goes out on an errand late one night and does not return, she and her neighbor create a puppet show in the hopes of explaining and perhaps saving their story. The […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Agitprop, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Dystopia, Family, Fiction, Jesse Ball, Literature, Music, Politics, review, Reviews, The Curfew, Totalitarianism

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Ashes of Fiery Weather

September 12, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: We often talk of the bravery and spirit of firefighters – but what of their families, their wives, their siblings, their children? Ashes tells the stories of five generations of powerful, magnificent women in a family where fighting fires is in the blood, from coming to Brooklyn at the tail end of the Famine to the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, and everything that happens along the way. The Review: There was a play that was produced several years ago called Sweet […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Ashes of Fiery Weather, Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Brooklyn, Family, FDNY, Fiction, Firefighters, Kathleen Donohoe, Literature, review, Reviews

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Modern Lovers

June 8, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: It’s summer in Ditmas Park in Brooklyn. Friends Elizabeth, Andrew, and Zoe met in college (in a band) and still live just a few houses down from each other on the same street – Elizabeth and Andrew with their son Harry, Zoe with her wife Jane and daughter Ruby. Over the course of the summer, Harry and Ruby start sleeping together, Zoe and Jane’s marriage goes on the rocks, and Andrew starts hanging out at a strange spiritual […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Brooklyn, Emma Straub, Family, Fiction, Literature, Modern Lovers, review

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The Turner House

February 17, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: The house on Yarrow Street has been home to the Turner family for over 50 years – but now, with the matriarch in fading health and her thirteen children struggling with their own lives, the question has come up: what to do with the house? Of course, to get to that point, they’re all going to have to figure out what to do with each other & themselves – especially the eldest and youngest of the thirteen, […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Angela Flournoy, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Detroit, Family, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, The Tournament of Books 2016, The Turner House

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