Category Archives: Literary Fiction

Inland by Téa Obreht (Books to Read During a Pandemic part 7)

Posted on May 1, 2020 by bseat

After six weeks of offering multiple books, genres and series to keep you occupied during a pandemic, today I am returning to my regular format of offering one book that I have read recently. I read Téa Obreht’s The Tiger … Continue reading →

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Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Posted on March 6, 2020 by bseat

Testaments is one of the books I listed as wanting to read on vacation. It was a good pick! Engaging, well written, with a great plot and interesting characters, this book also answered some questions and filled in some of … Continue reading →

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This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Posted on January 24, 2020 by bseat

Years ago I read a novel called Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger, which was a becoming of age story about a young man who in the course of one summer is confronted with lies, betrayal and murder and yet … Continue reading →

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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

Posted on January 17, 2020 by bseat

I became very curious when Tokarczuk won the Man Booker Prize for Flights and then even more intrigued when she recently won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. (The award was postponed a year due to internal controversy and dissension … Continue reading →

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The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Posted on November 29, 2019 by bseat

On the island of Jeju in S. Korea there are female divers called the haenyeo. They support their families by free diving, holding their breath between 1-2 minutes and diving 20 to 40 feet below the water, to harvest seaweed, … Continue reading →

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Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Posted on November 22, 2019 by bseat

Deep in the marshes and bayous near Barkley Cove, North Carolina is where the “Marsh Girl” lived. The people of the town knew of her-the abandoned girl named Kya Clark, who lived in a ramshackle hut that was only accessible … Continue reading →

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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Posted on September 13, 2019 by bseat

I wanted to love this book. I wanted to engage with the characters and learn from them but somehow it all became dull and lifeless. I hope that those of you who did love this book will let me know … Continue reading →

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Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Posted on August 30, 2019 by bseat

In 1951, Yun Ling Teoh makes her way to the Cameron Highlands of Malaya. Scarred and traumatized by her experiences during the war in a Japanese concentration camp, she needs time to heal and find a way to live again.  … Continue reading →

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Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Posted on August 13, 2019 by bseat

Between 2005 and 2009, in a Mennonite community called the Manitoba Colony in a remote part of Bolivia, women and girls were systematically attacked, sexually assaulted, raped and abused. Some of them who were pregnant at the time of their … Continue reading →

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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Posted on August 9, 2019 by bseat

During WWII, the men left for the war leaving behind the women and children behind.  Although many books, both fiction and non-fiction, have been written about the heroism of the men fighting at the front, the stories of the women … Continue reading →

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