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Currently, Darcie Abbene works as a consultant and writing coach for the Young Writers Project based out of Burlington, Vermont. Prior to that she spent several years working as a high school English teacher in first New Hampshire and later in Vermont. Although she spends much of her free time playing with her husband and daughters, she occasionally pens a blog called I Know Where the Leeks Are that uses the topic of food to explore the stories of people and place. Occasionally, she writes freelance articles for her local weekly paper.

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Quicksand
by Steve Toltz

(10/21/2015)

The novel has a timeline that is sometimes difficult to follow because it jumps back and forth in time, as well as switches between Aldo and Liam’s points of view. It also changes formats from straight narration, to a transcription of a police interview, to a manuscript of Liam’s book, to a defense monologue from a court trial. All of these are dappled with Aldo's distracting and sometimes endless - though thoroughly entertaining and character developing - rants. But the comedic way Toltz naviga

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Muse: A novel
by Jonathan Galassi

(7/22/2015)

At first glance, with none of the traditional love-story cues, Muse does not appear to be a classic example of the form. But the theme of love is omnipresent: Ida's poems detail her myriad trysts, including with both Wainwright and Homer. Paul's own path to love is a quiet search. Each character's pursuit of a satisfying love is a rough journey. This idea is underscored toward the end when Ida entrusts Paul with the responsibility of publishing her last and most powerful work which includ

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I Saw a Man
by Owen Sheers

(7/8/2015)

Sheers’ writing is beautifully descriptive. He can masterfully paint the room around the reader so that, not only do we feel as if we are standing in it physically, but we also experience a sense of the emotional atmosphere of the room, whether it is the sense of apprehension, fear, discomfort or, conversely, the ease with which characters interact with each other.

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Boo
by Neil Smith

(6/3/2015)

This story is one of second chances and new beginnings, of coming of age, and realizing that maybe you don’t know everything you think you do. Boo and his friends' journey is one you want to discover.

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I Refuse
by Per Petterson

(4/29/2015)

I Refuse is written in an style that is both simplistic and dense – long sentences strung together with endless ands, but the images evoked are simple ones that deepen the reader’s sense of the mood of the story and its players. (The stark, mostly winter Norwegian setting adds to the cold and isolated atmosphere of the book.) Overall, it is a sad mood, but one that elucidates some of the complex feelings people can have about friends and family. The depiction of the human condition sets t

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Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral
by Mary Doria Russell

(3/18/2015)

Mary Doria Russell’s novel, Epitaph, which tells of the famous event at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ does not disappoint in its recount of honor, justice, jealously, pride and vengeance...While the story is a familiar one, the writing is unique in its character development and illustrative language. It offers a thorough depiction of the players, period and story.

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