Melissa Brown Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Melissa Brown

Book Review: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. It’s all heat and pacing and my god did I love 💕 it. Hang on to your hat bc like the weather in WNY the plot twists every 5 paragraphs (exaggeration). It’s 3rd in the Outlander series. I liked the first 2 well enough https://t.co/ipk214mAB2

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Book Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, who has accomplished the unlikely trick of winning two Pulitzer Prizes for consecutive books-putting him n the rarified company of Booth Tarkington (who?), John Updike ❤️ (his prose not his sexual politics), and Faulkner

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Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Won the the Pulitzer for fiction. Takes place in and around a small village in Poland current times. Men are turning up dead, left and right. A little old lady-probably younger than me-has a theory.

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Book Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri. About every 5-6 books I read I buy a list book, one that made a best of list. I think about them as spinach books. Otherwise I would be all Outlander and Stephanie Plum. I come to them reluctantly but they are

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Book Review: Third Degree by Greg Iles. His opus is the Natchez Burning trilogy, taut but sweeping telling of a big story about 60s era civil rights heinous crimes being brought to Justice today. 3rd degree seems to be where he worked on taut, on a small scale.

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Film Review: Fences directed by and starring Denzel Washington. But Denzel (I do love Denzel) I’d not the reason. It’s by August Wilson an African American playwright whose 10 play Pittsburgh series was put on by https://t.co/A9kk5u05GX

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Book Review: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. My happy place this last two weeks of war. I have no idea what it was about. Love, exile, sacrifice, forgiveness, genetics, real estate? Such lovely people except Andrea. 💛💛💛💛💛 Read it.