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BOOK REVIEW: #ThereAreRiversInTheSky by Elif Shafak.

I LOVE Elif Shafak’s work and am working my way through her twelve novels. With every read I find a new favorite, but There Are Rivers in th

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BOOK REVIEW: There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

I LOVE Elif Shafak’s work and am working my way through her twelve novels. With every read I find a new favorite, but There Are Rivers in the Sky is my all-favorite so far. The book opens in 630 BCE, in Ninevah, the capital of the ancient Assyrian Empire along the Tigris River and home of the library of Ashurbanipal, a king known for his erudition as well as his cruelty. A “a single drop of…

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg.

This book is one of the most intriguing I have ever read. Having spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I am always interested in learning

A fascinating look at bacha posh, Afghani girls who are raised as boys.

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My book review column has appeared in the August Midwest Book Reviews:

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BOOK REVIEW: #Whistler by Ann Patchett. This ties with #TomLake for my favorite Patchett novel. Excellent read that will move readers deeply.

As I have been with so many other authors, I am slowly working my way through Ann Patchett’s oeuvre, starting years ago with Bel Canto. Whis

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BOOK REVIEW: Whistler by Ann Patchett

As I have been with so many other authors, I am slowly working my way through Ann Patchett’s oeuvre, starting years ago with Bel Canto. Whistler ties with Tom Lake as my—so far—all-time favorites of her works. Tom Lake is a quiet story. Whistler tells of a family fractured by divorce and somehow winds its way into being uplifting and healing while incorporating the story of a woman and her…

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: The Last Road Trip by Jennifer Klepper. A multi-POV, dual timeline story in which five college friends redo their aborted road trip that ended in disaster.

In The Last Road Trip, Mary Blake Bulloch convinces four of her sorority sisters to redo their college trip which was cut short by a disaste

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BOOK REVIEW: #TheBerrybenderNarratives by Larry McMurtry. An English lord drags his family to American in 1803 and engages with nearly every known mountain man in this irreverent series. Loved this four-book series.

I have been slowly working my way through Larry McMurtry’s oeuvre. The Berrybender Narratives brings together the four volumes of the epic s

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BOOK REVIEW: The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry

I have been slowly working my way through Larry McMurtry’s oeuvre. The Berrybender Narratives brings together the four volumes of the epic story of the American West: Sin Killer, The Wandering Hill, Sorrow’s River, and Folly and Glory. In these books, he sets the fictional English aristocratic family, the Berrybenders, against the American frontier of the early 19th century, beginning in the year…

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: In the Great Quiet by Laura Vogt. Gorgeous prose in a slow-burn pioneer romance set in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893. https://suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-in-the-great-quiet/

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My July 2026 books read, from Death of An Art Collector down to The Cellist. The best of these: #WinterCounts and #WisdomCorner by David Heska Wanbli Weiden, a thriller set on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The #GabrielAllonSeries by Daniel Silva.

#Whistler by Ann Patchett

#BeastsOfExtraordinaryCircumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

#TheBerrybenderNarratives by Larry McMurtry.

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My July 2026 book reviews. The best of these: #WinterCounts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden, a thriller set on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota; and Tracy Higley’s Clarissa Bell detective series set in Egypt during the 1920s.

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger. The 2nd of 22 in this series of well-written private investigator mysteries.

In the second novel in the Cork O’Connor series, Boundary Waters, Shiloh, a young woman, retreats to the wilds for a period of self-discover

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Book mail at my house. The lovely cozy mystery by Rachel Dacus, a series that follows two sisters, the ghost of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a ghost who asks for help finding his murderer. A fun read!

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BOOK REVIEW: #Poison by Kathryn Harrison. A look at the intertwined lives of a Spanish commoner and a queen of Spain set in the late 17th century during the Spanish Inquisition.

Poison is about the intertwined fates of a Spanish commoner and a queen born on the same day and year. Set in 1692, the bicentennial of Colu

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BOOK REVIEW: Poison by Kathryn Harrison

Poison is about the intertwined fates of a Spanish commoner and a queen born on the same day and year. Set in 1692, the bicentennial of Columbus’s discovery of America, it features the worst of Spanish life at the time: the dreaded Inquisition. Spain is now a bankrupt nation, having squandered all the riches stolen from its discoveries. Francisca de Luarac is the daughter of a poor Spanish silk…

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