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[wptabs] [wptabtitle]Book Review[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] MIA?  KIA?  OMG! Author: Gillian Flynn I love it when a friend says, “You have to read this book!”  (I love it even more if they then say, “Here, I’ll lend it to you!”  But I digress.)  Assuming they know anything at all about me and aren’t recommending a book on String Theory or taxidermy, the sheer force of their enthusiasm is enough to get me to pick up a book I might have overlooked.  That’s the long way of saying that a friend told me I should read Gone Girl – and I’m glad she [...]

Phantom limbs in paradise Author: Stephen King Cold, snowy winter is the perfect time to curl up with a nice, big tome by a favorite author.  Even better if the story happens to take place in the sunny Florida Keys.  Reading Stephen King’s Duma Key is like having a long conversation with an old friend – all his familiar ingredients are there, waiting to be unfolded and examined with a blanket and a mug of hot chocolate.  But definitely not with a paint brush and canvas… Because, you see, art is dangerous on Duma Key.  Edgar Freemantle doesn’t discover this [...]

Magical Mystery Tour Author: Erin Morgenstern We often see really good books referred to as “page turners”.  The kind of book you can’t wait to pick up and don’t want to put down.  I have to admit that I gravitate toward exactly that type of novel.  But there are times when a change of pace catches me by surprise and turns my usual frantic reading into something more leisurely and romantic.  Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is a most welcome deviation into the mystical and mysterious world of a particularly special circus. Night Circus begins with a simple concept – [...]