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Penelope
Penelope is a part time Peloton instructor.
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Laurie Frankel
2021
Laurie Frankel has been one of my happy discoveries since opening Thornwell Books. Like James McBri…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
2022
Several years ago, I read Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus". I had heard that…
Rouge
Mona Awad
2023
Mona Awad’s latest novel, Rouge, was a special type of treat: a book outside my comfort zone that b…
Shrines of Gaiety
Kate Atkinson
2022
The latest novel from award winning author Kate Atkinson, "Shrines of Gaiety" is a sprawl…
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
2023
Christmas came early for me this year with a new book from James McBride. Discovering McBride'…
The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
2022
The most delightful element of "The Latecomer" is the ironic deadpan humor of the narrati…
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
2021
Amor Towles has written a quintessentially American Odyssey, a “coming of age” story, following the…
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Kiran Desai
2025
A thoughtful review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, exploring its themes, stre…
The Maid
Nita Prose
2022
The mystery genre has only 2 basic requirements, an apparent crime, most often murder, and an attem…
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
2022
I have noticed a resurgence recently in classic "closed circle" mysteries. If you aren…
This Other Eden
Paul Harding
2023
Eugenics is best known today as the Nazi justification for the Holocaust and yet from the late 19th…
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
2023
In her recent bestselling novel "Tom Lake", Ann Patchett includes a note of thanks to the…
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