Our editors and columnists share their recent forays into essays, Burma, the afterlife, migration, and Chinese poetry below. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.
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I'm reading 11/22/63, Stephen King's latest 850 page tome. I love it. It's a great book. It's on all the lists. Time travel. Characters. Dialogue. Blah, blah, blah. King needs no endorsement from me. Even if I could introduce one or two new readers to the "King of Horror," they would be but tiny grains of sand in his vast, literate empire. So why even bring it up in the Now Reading section of Literary Mama? It's not that the book I'm reading is any sort of a revelation. It's how I'm reading it.
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I write this Now Reading post with great reluctance. My daughter is sleeping, the fire is burning in the wood stove, and I had to drag myself away from Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay, the third installment in the Hunger Games trilogy. Yes, it's technically young adult. Yes, technically I'm an old adult with no young adult children, but sometimes it's really, really awesome to pretend to be one, especially when it means reading a fun, fast-paced sci-fi story with a dynamic female main character. For those of you who haven't yet taken the drug that is The Hunger Games, I offer you a gateway.
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This month, Literary Mama editors are reading about religion, the fall out from child abuse, a collection of short stories that one editor wishes were longer stories, and a mother-daughter travel memoir. Read on below! Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.
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Literary Mama editors share where their reading ventures have most recently brought them. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.
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This month, our editors share what they are currently reading and take us from memoirs set in Kenya, novels about awkward marriages, and works of non-fiction about Israeli and Palestinian families. Download the list to find it fast at your local bookstore or library.
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Take a peek at what Literary Mamas are reading as summer begins. Enjoy!
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