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Micro-Review #135: The Long Weekend

Three women travel to a remote corner of England for a long weekend. When they arrive, a note awaits them stating that one of their husbands will be killed by the time they get home. As they’re cut off from the world (no cell coverage, …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #135: The Long WeekendApril 18, 2024April 18, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #134: The Last Thing He Told Me

Hannah’s husband suddenly goes missing—but not without sending her a cryptic note (“Protect her”) and a bag of cash. Was the husband a criminal? A victim of someone else’s scheme? Is Hannah’s stepdaughter in danger? A fast start and crisp hook make this bestselling suspense …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #134: The Last Thing He Told MeApril 4, 2024April 4, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #133: QRF

Eleven years after leaving Iraq, former soldier Jim Cooper isn’t adapting well to civilian life. When his old lieutenant gets abducted by ISIS, he and his former squad members don’t hesitate: they’ll return to Mosul to nudge the Iraqi army to try to free him. …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #133: QRFMarch 21, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #132: Munich

This historical fiction tells the story of two men—one German and one British—who in 1938 try to stop Hitler from invading Czechoslovakia and starting World War II. The book’s historical elements come across as well-researched and authentic, the tension is palpable, and the characters are …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #132: MunichMarch 7, 2024March 7, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #131: Zeitoun

This is a very American true story. In the years leading up to Hurricane Katrina, Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a successful painting business in New Orleans. When the storm approaches, Kathy and the kids flee to higher ground while Abdulrahman stays in order to …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #131: ZeitounFebruary 22, 2024 By stevenowad

Owad’s Micro-Review #130: All the Kremlin’s Men

Old Turkish proverb: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan; the palace becomes a circus.” Sounds about right, but this book, by a now-exiled Russian journalist, proves the saying wrong. When a clown enters the palace, the entire government becomes …

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Leave a Comment on Owad’s Micro-Review #130: All the Kremlin’s MenFebruary 8, 2024February 8, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #129: Bluesman

Dubus’ first novel tells the story of Leo, a teen coming of age in smalltown Massachusetts during the Vietnam war. For the first time in his life, Leo is having sex, falling in love, and feeling like an adult thanks to a real job building …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #129: BluesmanJanuary 25, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #128: Killer Joe

A decade before he wrote AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Tracy Letts came up with this hyperbolic story about angst in a trailer park in the South. Chris, the play’s main character, gives us the flavor of the tale when he describes his home state of Texas …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #128: Killer JoeJanuary 23, 2024January 23, 2024 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #127: North of Normal

Haven’t seen the movie, but the book tells an absorbing true story. Cea’s family leaves California in 1960s for the rugged wilderness of western Canada. The journey that follows takes her from a childhood spent in the bush to a First Nations reserve west of …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #127: North of NormalNovember 23, 2023November 23, 2023 By stevenowad

Micro-Review #126: Geniuses

From our Obscure Works file, here’s a 40-year-old play that’s guaranteed to make you laugh like a Filipino ferret. Four movie people are stranded together in the Philippines during a typhoon. While the blockbuster movie’s insanely expensive sets sink into the mud, a writer, an …

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Leave a Comment on Micro-Review #126: GeniusesNovember 9, 2023 By stevenowad

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