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Summer 2013 Reading List: Fiction

Summer is finally here — even in gloomy Seattle! — and no matter whether you’re heading off to the nearest beach or planning a staycation in your own backyard, you’ll want some top-notch summer reading within arm’s reach. We’ve put together a list of 25 hot titles that everyone’s talking about, so you can get started on your summer reading right now. See our fiction picks below, and don't forget to check out our nonfiction summer reading list too! Did we miss a 2013 must-read? Tell us in the comments!   1. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson What if you [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:58-07:00June 10th, 2013|Tags: |

Fire Away

I just finished reading Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan, and although it's a cliche to say so, I truly could not put this book down. I read it on the bus; I read it on my lunch break; I read it at home when I was supposed to be washing dishes. What about this memoir makes it so engrossing? The story begins when then-24-year-old Susannah Cahalan, a sparky and driven reporter for the New York Post, suddenly starts acting strange: erratic behavior, wild mood swings, and symptoms like numbness and hallucinations. As her condition worsens, [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:59-07:00June 7th, 2013|Tags: , , |

Little Free Library Series — The Nursing Home Murder

Spring is in the Air! Wearing a short-sleeved shirt, biking home from work on the first really warm day of the year, the sun was shining bright and spring was in high gear.  It was a good day to stop at the Little Free Library at the east entrance to the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, home to bugling sandhill cranes, squawking red wing blackbirds, diving coots and strutting tom turkeys.   But spring has been unreasonably late this year, so despite the warm weather, the magnolias were just starting to reveal their blooms and the spring peepers weren’t quite ready to [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:59-07:00June 2nd, 2013|
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