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Christine is a writer and library assistant from Florida. She's written marketing content on various topics, but books are her true love. Currently she's taking a Discworld deep dive. In addition to BookBrowse, she also reviews at BookTrib. She’s most content outdoors, reading or taking long birding hikes. Find her on Goodreads.

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Python's Kiss: Stories
by Louise Erdrich

(4/8/2026)

Erdrich's characters are flawed, courageous and ashamed, lonely and terrified, and always longing for something: not only freedom, but companionship at all costs, for a way to forget the what ifs that still haunt and the grief that comes with them, reminding us that regret is just longing for what might have been. Yet, Erdrich never lets cynicism take root. There is always another way of seeing, another angle of grace presented. Python's Kiss is for anyone who has wished the

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Mornings Without Mii
by Mayumi Inaba

(2/26/2025)

Inaba's tone is straightforward and profoundly intimate, warmly inviting readers to witness the deep joy and creative solitude life with Mii provided. You truly feel welcome on their nightly walks through the apartment complex, a routine devised to comfort Mii after her separation from the outdoors. It was a strange sort of comfort reading Mornings Without Mii as my own 15-year-old cat Deckard's life waned, with him passing just as I passed the midpoint of the book. I was feeling exactly

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Absolution: The Southern Reach Series #4
by Jeff VanderMeer

(11/6/2024)

Writing a prequel rather than a sequel, VanderMeer regales us in Absolution with chronicles of Area X in three expedition logs from throughout its history. It would most likely baffle a new reader, though I would still recommend it to a seeker of the strange. For fans that read and loved the previous trilogy, it is a treat. Not for the faint of heart, reading Absolution sometimes feels like riding a roller coaster and crashing, breathless. The pacing is excellent—the rhythm o

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Final Cut
by Charles Burns

(10/2/2024)

Burns' artwork is impressive...lucid and whimsical with stark colors, graphic and wonderfully revolting. Besides the art, what makes Final Cut so compelling is its familiarity, how most of us have been a Brian or a Laurie in similar situations throughout life. What young person hasn't desired the ease of a romance they saw in a film? Final Cut shows us just how powerful illusions can be, but what makes us face the truth in front of our eyes? Some of us never do, and that's the real

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Somehow: Thoughts on Love
by Anne Lamott

(6/5/2024)

Anne Lamott knows a thing or two about love. In fact, there is so much of it exuding from her essay collection Somehow, you'd be forgiven for feeling wistful and misty-eyed just reading some of her descriptions. They act as a form of time travel, showing us scenes from Lamott's life that have proven to her the essential nature of love as a feeling, and how it affects each of us in both minute and enormous ways. She exhibits her famed intellect and bright humor, inviting us on a journey pa

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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
by Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger

(4/17/2024)

The writing is woven with many scientific terms but is delivered in a highly digestible format. Marvelous and revelatory, Alien Earths will get you excited for our burgeoning, promising efforts to reach cosmic life on Earth-similar exoplanets. So much has already been learned in just a few decades, and we're only getting started. Thanks to Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger and her fellow scientists, we are closer than ever to meeting life on another planet. It's only a matter of patience, perseverance

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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
by Rebecca Boyle

(2/21/2024)

In Our Moon, author Rebecca Boyle explains how Earth's closest neighbor is essential to our history. Reliable and mythical, epic in size and significance, the Moon has been profoundly influential since the beginning. According to Boyle's extensive research, we would not be here without it. It is a well-suited first book for journalist Boyle, who's a regular contributor to Atlas Obscura and has a personal obsession with the Moon. Who better to examine the Moon's importance than a me

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So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
by Claire Keegan

(1/10/2024)

Irish writer Claire Keegan consistently showcases the short story's everlasting appeal. In her collection So Late in the Day, she presents three clever tales of men and women interacting and surprising each other along the way. At only 128 pages, the book proves you don't need length to pack a powerful punch. Only a talented writer can condense such strong meaning into short fiction, and Keegan proves her masterful skill in this area again and again.

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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
by Paulette Jiles

(10/18/2023)

Another of Jiles' talents is crafting care in only a few pages of storytime. In this journey of vengeance, John crosses paths with transitory characters who often linger in rippling effects. Like a web, everything is connected. Though most of the narrative lives in John's mind, the few third-person point-of-view transitions are seamless. Chenneville hearkens back to westerns long past, Riders of the Purple Sage in particular. But with Jiles' thoughtful care, it truly is one of a ki

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