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Book review: Birdsong offers 3 powerful portraits of womanhood

By Molly Sprayregen Associated Press
Feb 08, 2022 8:00 am - "Nobody's Magic" by Destiny O. Birdsong (Grand Central Publishing) Destiny O. Birdsong's "Nobody's Magic" tells three separate stories, each centering on...
Review: Book recalls '64 coast-to-coast adventure in a bus

By JOHN ROGERS
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - 'œCronies'ť by Ken Babbs (Tsunami Press) Author Ken Kesey, flush with cash from the publication of 'œOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'ť filled an aging, broken-down scho...
Review: Birdsong offers 3 powerful portraits of womanhood

By MOLLY SPRAYREGEN
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - 'œNobody's Magic'ť by Destiny O. Birdsong (Grand Central Publishing) Destiny O. Birdsong's "Nobody's Magic" tells three separate stories, each centering on a Black albin...
Book review: Joanna Schaffhausen sets standard for serial killer novels

By Bruce DeSilva Associated Press
Feb 08, 2022 5:00 am - "Last Seen Alive" by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur) When Joanna Schaffhausen first introduced FBI Special Agent Reed Markham and Boston police officer El...
Virtual event with Jennifer Chiaverini, author of 'The Women's March'

Daily Herald report
Feb 08, 2022 12:00 am - The League of Women Voters of the Palatine Area will host a virtual author event with bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, who will discuss her new novel, "The Women'...
ECC Writers Center Spring Reading Series kicks off Feb. 10 with author Hugh Ryan

Submitted by Elgin Community College
Feb 07, 2022 10:00 pm - The Writers Center at Elgin Community College will host three authors for the Spring 2022 Reading Series. Due to ongoing social distancing practices, the events will tak...
Review: A wise, witty memoir on 'divine tedium' of marriage

By ANN LEVIN
Feb 07, 2022 6:00 am - 'œForeverland,'ť by Heather Havrilesky (Ecco) Dear AP book reviewer: I thought I was doing OK with the pandemic, but the recent surge of COVID-19 cases has really got m...
Review: Chuck Klosterman deep dives into 'The Nineties'

By ROB MERRILL
Feb 07, 2022 6:00 am - 'œThe Nineties'ť by Chuck Klosterman (Penguin Press) Few things make a book reviewer feel older than reading a book - words on actual tree pulp, bound together with a ha...
Book review: Allende's 'Violeta' an epic South American tale

By Anita Snow Associated Press
Feb 07, 2022 5:00 am - "Violeta" by Isabel Allende (Random House) Chilean writer Isabel Allende's latest novel is "Violeta," an epic tale that transports readers across a centu...
Good News Sunday: Courtney Kiolbassa named 2021 Advocate Good Shepherd Nurse of the Year

By Susan Klovstad
Feb 06, 2022 6:00 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: In middle school, Courtney Kiolbassa saw...

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