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Book Review: ‘Loving Sylvia Plath’ attends to polarizing writer’s circumstances more than her work

By KRYSTA FAURIA
Jul 09, 2024 7:52 am - In “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation,” author Emily Van Duyne rejects the trope that Plath was nothing more than a bad mother who struggled with mental illness and a morbid poet, whose life was merely a preface to her infamous self-inflicted death.
Book Review: ‘John Quincy Adams’ gives the sixth president’s life the sweep and scope it deserves

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Jul 01, 2024 11:43 am - To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods’ biography of the sixth president is massive in both length and scope. But that’s the type of book Adams deserves.
Book Review: ‘Hey, Zoey’ uses questions about AI to look at women’s autonomy in a new light

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jul 01, 2024 11:36 am - Dolores is going through the motions of life when she finds a potentially marriage-ending surprise in her garage: a high-end, lifelike sex doll imbued with artificial intelligence named Zoey. There are a lot of places that author Sarah Crossan can go from here — and “Hey, Zoey” touches on them all.
Book Review: Yume Kitasei explores space in a heist-driven action adventure novel

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jun 24, 2024 10:52 am - Grad student Maya Hoshimoto is having a hard time settling down on Earth after a thrilling career as an art thief, stealing looted objects and returning them to their peo...
Book Review: Serena Kaylor’s ‘Calculation’ proves predictable romance can be uproarious, nail-biting

By DONNA EDWARDS
Jun 21, 2024 6:35 am - Serena Kaylor’s second novel, “The Calculation of You and Me,” is a phenomenal teen romance that celebrates romance itself — the concept and the genre — as Marlowe discovers what makes a healthy, happy relationship through her journey to try and win back her high school boyfriend.
Book Review: ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ tells a tale of modern love and success

By ROB MERRILL
Jun 17, 2024 7:33 am - The cover art and title of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” don’t quite convey the wild ride readers who crack open this new fiction from Rufi Thorpe will take. There’s a rea...
Griffin Dunne finds balance between madcap Hollywood adventures and family tragedy in new memoir

By BROOKE LEFFERTS
Jun 14, 2024 8:19 am - Griffin Dunne says he’s grateful his parents raised him with what he affectionately calls “benign neglect” in 1970s and ’80s Los Angeles because it encouraged creativ...
Cantigny Book Talk to be on ‘Nature is Our Country Club’

Submitted by Christopher Cudworth
Jun 13, 2024 8:49 pm - For his newest book “Nature Is Our Country Club: How Golf Explains Sustainability In a Changing World,” North Aurora author Christopher Cudworth spent four years researching the golf industry's economic and environmental realities as courses face changes due to climate change.
West Chicago Public Library District resident named finalist in statewide writing competition

Submitted by Lucy Tarabour
Jun 13, 2024 3:16 pm - The Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project Manuscript competition recently announced this year’s finalists: • “Nicky” by Hailey Atwood (West Chicago Public Library D...
AAUW Wheaton-Glen Ellyn Used Book Sale kicks off June 20

Submitted by Suzanne Gagner
Jun 12, 2024 10:46 am - The Wheaton-Glen Ellyn AAUW Branch, NFP is busy gathering books for its 2024 Used Book Sale. More than 11,000 books will provide a great opportunity to refresh your TBR (To Be Read) piles.

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