Carole V. Bell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Carole V. Bell

@ChloeAngyal Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Reel by Kennedy Ryan People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian Rosaline Palmer Takes the scale by Alexis Hall

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Excited to bring some contemporary romance coverage to @NPR this week with standalone reviews of two new books: 1) Book Lovers, the latest from Beach Read queen Emily Henry: Big city devotees find romance in a small town in Emily Henry's 'Book Lovers' https://t.co/6wjNg9XBha

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In addition to being a consummate storyteller, Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing has quickly become a leading chronicler of race, politics, and American family. Her gorgeously written and compelling new novel Our Missing Hearts further cements that position. https://t.co/mWjz6JOsl9

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This is the perfect time to read about the author of Kindred and Parable of the Sower. The Spectacular Life of Octavia Butler: The girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom, and wrote herself into the world. By ⁦@e_alexjung⁩ https://t.co/hFPC8x9yoh

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Excited to bring some contemporary romance coverage to @NPR this week with standalone reviews of two new books: 1) Book Lovers, the latest from Beach Read queen Emily Henry: Big city devotees find romance in a small town in Emily Henry's 'Book Lovers' https://t.co/6wjNg9XBha

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In his stunning debut novel, an acclaimed Maori screenwriter peels back New Zealand’s Edenic facade, revealing the bloody colonial history still pulsing beneath... the story commands attention from start to spectacular finish.

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RT @katrinajax: Anyway, speaking of racism in romance: Jackie Lau’s Donut Fall in Love does a great job of considering the many ways anti-A…

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"Normally, I write a book and I’m done; I’m sick of it. But this is the first time that I’ve had a character and a world that I’m not finished with.” -- Colson Whitehead on Carney's return in 2023. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/colson-whitehead-teases-harlem-shuffle-sequel/ #kirkusreviews

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@TheBookMaven Zadie Smith for her novels White Teeth and On Beauty especially and I think also in Swing Time. And then the essays. There’s one about code switching that was literally on my syllabus for years. Speaking in Tongues (NYR, 2008). https://t.co/TuKKwHz9mQ

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Along with cozies, women have made serious inroads with historical mysteries, and the Bangalore Detectives Club is a perfect example. Authored by an Indian professor of ecology, the story is rich with the sights, sounds, tastes, and politics of southern India in the 1920s under British Colonial rule.

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