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The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin Plot: On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport.  Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding.  Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to […]

Book Reviews

Books I Read in May and Whether or Not You Should Read Them.

Because when your library delivers, one book post is just not enough.  True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel Plot: “The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian Longo, on the FBI’s […]

Book Reviews

(More) Books I Read in April & Whether or Not You Should Read Them.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Plot: “On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. […]

Book Reviews

Books I Read in April and Whether or Not You Should Read Them.

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