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Roxanne Reviews "Cloud Cuckoo Land"
Roxanne reviews Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Some books are an amusing distraction, some lyrical dreamworks and some downright...
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Feb 11, 20221 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Free Love"
Roxanne reviews Free Love by Tess Hadley. Having never read Tess Hadley’s previous best selling novels, Late in the Day or The Past, I...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Jan 31, 20221 min read
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Doug's Mini-Review "The Paris Bookseller"
Doug was thoroughly impressed with Kerri Maher's new novel The Paris Bookseller. It is the story of Sylvia Beach and her Paris bookstore...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Jan 17, 20221 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home"
Roxanne reviews I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenburg. If you’ve ever had a period of wanderlust, or...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Dec 27, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "The Book of Form and Emptiness"
Roxanne Reviews The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki Imagine you’re offered the opportunity for a mind-blowing high endurance...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Nov 29, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "You Can't Be Serious"
Roxanne reviews You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn Reading Kal Penn’s memoir is like getting a visit from that friend you always look...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Nov 20, 20211 min read
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Melanie and Katia Book Blurb
What have Melanie and Katia been reading lately? Melanie read My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Here's what Melanie had to say: A...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Nov 8, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows"
Roxanne reviews 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei If you were fortunate, you saw one or maybe both Ai Weiwei art...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Oct 25, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Everything I Have is Yours: A Marriage"
Roxanne reviews Everything I Have is Yours: A Marriage by Eleanor Henderson. Anyone who enjoys medical mystery stories and the...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Oct 11, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Running is a Kind of Dreaming"
Roxanne reviews Running is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir by J. M. Thompson Being a runner half my life gives me great admiration for...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Oct 3, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals"
Roxanne reviews Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Listening to radio while running on 9-11 over the...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Sep 14, 20212 min read
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Doug and Katia Book Blurb
What have Doug and Katia been reading lately? Mysteries! Doug read The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Here's what he had to say: Late...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Sep 12, 20211 min read
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Andrea Chats About "Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch"
For the past 17 years The Morning News website has conducted an annual Tournament of Books. It's a different type a different kind of...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Aug 30, 20212 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Afterparties"
Roxanne reviews Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So Anthony Veasna So was just beginning what would have been an illustrious...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Aug 9, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Whole Brain Living"
Roxanne reviews Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor A recent...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Jul 25, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Review "Stories to Tell"
Roxanne reviews Stories to Tell: A Memoir by Richard Marx I may have found my fraternal, yet far more talented, twin brother after...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Jul 5, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Second Place"
Roxanne reviews Second Place by Rachel Cusk. Rachel Cusk’s new novel Second Place will leave you speechless, mute in the way a truly...
Bookstore1Sarasota
May 30, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Mary Jane"
Roxanne reviews Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau Mary Jane is the perfect summer time fiction read set in Baltimore, Maryland and Rehoboth...
Bookstore1Sarasota
May 24, 20212 min read
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Doug and Andrea Book Blurb
What have Doug and Andrea been reading lately? Andrea read Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber Here's what she had to say: Joan Silber is...
Bookstore1Sarasota
May 10, 20211 min read
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Roxanne Reviews "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life"
Roxanne reviews Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson. To say that Jordan Peterson is a prophet may sound like...
Bookstore1Sarasota
May 3, 20211 min read
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