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Books reviewed by Kim Kovacs at BookBrowse.

Kim Kovacs

Kim Kovacs is an avid reader in the Pacific Northwest. All those rainy days give her the opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of books that span many genres.

Books reviewed by Kim Kovacs

Go as a River (12/06/23)
Trouble the Living (11/15/23)
A City on Mars (11/15/23)
Flee North (10/18/23)
Fair Rosaline (10/04/23)
Move Like Water (09/20/23)
Time's Mouth (08/02/23)
Return to Valetto (07/12/23)
Glassworks (06/21/23)
The White Lady (05/17/23)
In Memoriam (05/03/23)
Fragile Cargo (04/19/23)
The Mitford Affair (02/15/23)
Rough Sleepers (02/15/23)
What Lies in the Woods (02/01/23)
Age of Vice (01/04/23)
Lessons in Chemistry (12/07/22)
Remarkably Bright Creatures (12/07/22)
Demon Copperhead (11/16/22)
Cradles of the Reich (11/02/22)
Properties of Thirst (10/05/22)
All the Lonely People (09/21/22)
Moth (09/21/22)
Winter Work (08/24/22)
Mercury Pictures Presents (08/24/22)
Carolina Moonset (07/13/22)
An Olive Grove in Ends (06/22/22)
The Book Woman's Daughter (06/22/22)
The Lioness (06/08/22)
Mercy Street (06/08/22)
Shadows of Berlin (05/18/22)
The Return of Faraz Ali (05/04/22)
Black Cake (04/20/22)
The Great Passion (04/06/22)
In Love (03/16/22)
The Swimmers (03/02/22)
The Promise (02/02/22)
We Are Not Like Them (01/19/22)
Never (01/05/22)
A Town Called Solace (12/08/21)
The Sweetness of Water (12/08/21)
The Correspondents (11/17/21)
Crossroads (10/20/21)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (10/06/21)
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (09/08/21)
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (09/08/21)
Great Circle (07/14/21)
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (06/23/21)
Project Hail Mary (06/23/21)
A Peculiar Combination (06/23/21)
Revelations (05/19/21)
Buses Are a Comin' (05/05/21)
The Women of Chateau Lafayette (04/07/21)
The Doctors Blackwell (03/03/21)
Made in China (02/17/21)
Hades, Argentina (02/17/21)
The Sea Gate (01/20/21)
Take It Back (01/06/21)
Hidden Valley Road (12/09/20)
Deacon King Kong (12/09/20)
The Orchard (11/18/20)
Agent Sonya (11/04/20)
Those Who Forget (10/21/20)
The Cold Millions (10/21/20)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (10/07/20)
All the Devils Are Here (09/16/20)
When Truth Is All You Have (08/19/20)
When These Mountains Burn (08/19/20)
Utopia Avenue (07/15/20)
The Last Flight (07/15/20)
The Vanishing Half (06/03/20)
The Book of Longings (05/20/20)
The Land Beyond the Sea (05/06/20)
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (04/22/20)
My Dark Vanessa (03/18/20)
Qualityland (03/04/20)
When We Were Vikings (02/19/20)
Followers (01/22/20)
A Woman Is No Man (12/04/19)
The Body (11/13/19)
The Long Call (10/16/19)
The Testaments (10/02/19)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (09/18/19)
Kochland (09/18/19)
The Dearly Beloved (08/21/19)
Shadowlands (07/31/19)
Conviction (07/31/19)
Endeavour (06/19/19)
Her Kind of Case (05/29/19)
Feast Your Eyes (05/15/19)
The Island of Sea Women (05/01/19)
The Sun Is a Compass (04/17/19)
Daughter of Moloka'i (04/03/19)
The Pianist from Syria (03/06/19)
Code Name Lise (02/20/19)
A Mind Unraveled (01/23/19)
Empire of Sand (01/09/19)
Bad Blood (12/05/18)
Vita Nostra (11/14/18)
Waiting for Eden (10/31/18)
The Removes (08/15/18)
The Good Mothers (08/15/18)
Tip of the Iceberg (07/11/18)
Warlight (06/20/18)
We Own the Sky (05/30/18)
The Electric Woman (05/16/18)
I Found My Tribe (04/18/18)
The Woman's Hour (03/21/18)
Women & Power (03/07/18)
The Wife Between Us (02/21/18)
The Great Alone (02/07/18)
Ginny Moon (12/06/17)
To Siri with Love (11/15/17)
An American Sickness (11/01/17)
Code Girls (10/18/17)
I Was Told to Come Alone (08/02/17)
Kintu (06/21/17)
The Radium Girls (06/21/17)
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence (05/31/17)
Inferno (05/03/17)
The Delight of Being Ordinary (04/19/17)
The Confessions of Young Nero (03/22/17)
Lincoln in the Bardo (02/15/17)
Ruler of the Night (01/18/17)
The Gardens of Consolation (01/04/17)
You Will Not Have My Hate (11/16/16)
Love Warrior (11/02/16)
Crossing the Horizon (10/19/16)
A Gentleman in Moscow (09/21/16)
A Great Reckoning (09/07/16)
Behold the Dreamers (08/24/16)
Street of Eternal Happiness (08/03/16)
The Romanovs (07/13/16)
Agnostic (06/01/16)
The Association of Small Bombs (05/18/16)
Consequence (05/04/16)
The Never-Open Desert Diner (04/20/16)
The Vanishing Velazquez (04/20/16)
Stork Mountain (04/06/16)
Ginny Gall (03/16/16)
The Hundred-Year Walk (03/02/16)
Light (02/17/16)
When Breath Becomes Air (02/03/16)
Fair Helen (01/06/16)
This Angel on My Chest (11/18/15)
Pacific (11/04/15)
Under the Udala Trees (10/21/15)
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse (10/21/15)
Bull Mountain (09/16/15)
Zero Night (09/02/15)
The Last Pilot (08/12/15)
The Marriage of Opposites (08/12/15)
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth (07/08/15)
The Convictions of John Delahunt (07/08/15)
Do No Harm (06/17/15)
Being Mortal (06/17/15)
Medicine Walk (06/03/15)
Joan of Arc (06/03/15)
The Fair Fight (05/13/15)
Orhan's Inheritance (04/15/15)
The Death of Caesar (04/01/15)
Ten Million Aliens (03/18/15)
Into the Savage Country (03/04/15)
Red Notice (02/18/15)
All My Puny Sorrows (01/07/15)
Without You, There Is No Us (11/19/14)
The Underground Girls of Kabul (10/15/14)
The Secret Place (10/01/14)
Neverhome (09/17/14)
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (09/03/14)
Em and the Big Hoom (09/03/14)
In the Kingdom of Ice (08/13/14)
A Spy Among Friends (08/13/14)
Everything I Never Told You (07/09/14)
Mrs. Hemingway (07/09/14)
I Am Pilgrim (06/04/14)
Astoria (04/23/14)
Shotgun Lovesongs (04/09/14)
The Martian (03/05/14)
Motherland (01/22/14)
Glorious Misadventures (01/08/14)
The Lion Seeker (11/20/13)
Pink Sari Revolution (11/20/13)
The Cartographer of No Man's Land (11/06/13)
In Falling Snow (10/02/13)
Thank You for Your Service (10/02/13)
The Returned (09/04/13)
A Fort of Nine Towers (08/21/13)
The Son (07/10/13)
The Golem and the Jinni (06/19/13)
The Blood of Heaven (06/19/13)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (05/08/13)
Ordinary Grace (04/17/13)
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards (04/03/13)
Pow! (02/20/13)
Villa Triste (02/06/13)
Iron Curtain (01/09/13)
The Yellow Birds (11/28/12)
Black Fridays (11/14/12)
Fobbit (10/03/12)
City of Women (09/19/12)
Something Red (09/19/12)
The Sandcastle Girls (09/05/12)
The Long Walk (08/08/12)
The Names of Things (07/25/12)
Gone Girl (06/14/12)
The Little Red Guard (05/09/12)
Angelmaker (04/11/12)
The Gods of Gotham (04/11/12)
The Song of Achilles (03/21/12)
No One is Here Except All of Us (02/01/12)
1Q84 (11/17/11)
When She Woke (11/03/11)
The Art of Fielding (10/05/11)
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz (09/07/11)
Before I Go To Sleep (06/15/11)
Madame Tussaud (05/12/11)
Please Look After Mom (05/12/11)
The Informationist (04/06/11)
I Shall Not Hate (02/16/11)
Unbroken (01/13/11)
To the End of the Land (10/20/10)
Bonobo Handshake (08/04/10)
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street (07/08/10)
Zeitoun (06/09/10)
Matterhorn (04/21/10)
Parrot and Olivier in America (04/21/10)
City of Dragons (04/07/10)
The Postmistress (03/03/10)
Shades of Grey (02/03/10)
Beneath the Lion's Gaze (01/13/10)
Crossers (11/19/09)
The Music Room (11/05/09)
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True (10/07/09)
Darwin's Armada (09/23/09)
John the Revelator (09/02/09)
Wife of the Gods (08/12/09)
Far Bright Star (07/08/09)
The Lord of Death (07/08/09)
Shanghai Girls (06/10/09)
The Secret Speech (06/10/09)
Halfway to Heaven (05/21/09)
Havana Fever (05/21/09)
The Killing Way (05/06/09)
The Red Wolf Conspiracy (05/06/09)
The Weight of Heaven (05/06/09)
You Are Here (05/06/09)
Still Alice (04/01/09)
The King's Rifle (04/01/09)
Honolulu (03/08/09)
Little Bee (03/08/09)
Brothers (02/05/09)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (02/05/09)
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County (01/21/09)
Sashenka (01/07/09)
The Spanish Game (11/12/08)
Stalin's Children (10/15/08)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (10/01/08)
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (10/01/08)
City of Thieves (09/18/08)
The Garden of Evil (09/04/08)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (08/13/08)
The White Mary (08/13/08)
The Walking Dead (07/11/08)
The Eaves of Heaven (07/11/08)
The Plague of Doves (06/18/08)
The Gift of Rain (06/18/08)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (06/01/08)
Lavinia (05/15/08)
The Man Who Loved China (05/15/08)
A Crime So Monstrous (04/17/08)
The Outcast (04/03/08)
Genghis: Lords of the Bow (04/03/08)
Beaufort (02/21/08)

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